Not exact matches
And they also don't incur all the trading costs, taxes, and other
expenses that go into some
of the more
active strategies.
For some investors, this
active management
strategy is an attractive feature
of bond funds, but it typically comes at the cost
of management and other fees defined by the fund's
expense ratio.
You might overshoot in performance if you are lucky, but you are far more likely to underperform, because
of the various higher
expenses, higher costs, and higher taxes that cumulatively drag down
active strategies.
Usually the purpose
of doing this type
of work is to see if an
active investment
strategy (after fees and
expenses) outperformed a passive investment
strategy.
The second link is that the high costs
of active strategies, in terms
of expense ratios, trading costs and tax inefficiency, result in shrinkage
of returns available to investors.