Active share is a measure of the degree by which the weights (percentages) of
fund holdings differ from those of the index.
Not exact matches
The
fund pulls its
holdings from the S&P 500, which
differs from the broad - market universe used by competing
funds in that it excludes small - caps and most midcaps.
The stock market showed much more discrimination concerning energy industry investments in this quarter, rewarding our
holdings that reported good finding costs and resource additions (e.g., Cimarex and Range Resources, the sixth - largest contributor), while penalizing Apache and the
Fund's two Canadian
holdings, Cenovus and EnCana, for
differing reasons.
A
fund's yield may
differ from the average yield of dividend - paying stocks
held by the
fund.
However, the
Fund may experience a loss even when the entire value of its stock portfolio is hedged if the returns of the stocks
held by the
Fund do not exceed the returns of the securities and financial instruments used to hedge, or if the exercise prices of the
Fund's call and put options
differ, so that the combined loss on these options during a market advance exceeds the gain on the underlying stock index.
«Active share» measures the degree to which a
fund's portfolio
differs from the
holdings of its benchmark portfolio, which for QVAL is S&P 500 Total Return index.
The
Fund's Chief Compliance Officer, or a Compliance Manager designated by the Chief Compliance Officer, may also grant exceptions to permit additional disclosure of
Fund portfolio
holdings information at
differing times and with different lag times (the period from the date of the information to the date the information is made available), if any, in instances where the
Fund has legitimate business purposes for doing so, it is in the best interests of shareholders, and the recipients are subject to a duty of confidentiality, including a duty not to trade on the nonpublic information and are required to execute an agreement to that effect.
A similar pattern
holds for variations of these portfolios that include
differing levels of bond
funds — in other words 90 % equity, 80 % equity, 70 % equity and so forth.
Martijn Cremers and Antti Petajisto have a series of papers using the concept of «Active Share,» a new measure of active portfolio management which represents the share of portfolio
holdings that
differ from the benchmark index
holdings, to evaluate mutual
fund managers.
We always take a close look at an exchange traded
fund's performance and its
holdings to see if they
differ from what the prospectus or sales literature would lead investors to expect.
Cremers and Petajisto, in a 2009 Review of Financial Studies paper, introducing a new measure of active portfolio management, referred to as Active Share (i.e., the share of portfolio
holdings that
differ from the benchmark index
holdings), found that between 1968 and 2001 U.S.
funds that deviated significantly from the benchmark portfolio outperformed their benchmarks both before and after expenses.
Investment minimums, exchange requirements, and the timing of
fund distributions in an Account may
differ from those applicable to positions
held directly with a mutual
fund.
Actual after tax returns depend on the investor's tax situation and may
differ from those shown, and the after - tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who
hold their
fund shres through tad deferred arrangements such as 401 (k) plans or individual retiredment accounts.
98.6 «Active share» measures the degree to which a
fund's portfolio
differs from the
holdings of its benchmark portfolio.
Bond ETFs like bond mutual
funds,
hold a portfolio of bonds and can
differ widely in their investment strategies.
The
Fund may experience a loss even when the entire value of its stock portfolio is hedged if the returns of the stocks
held by the
Fund do not exceed the returns of the securities and financial instruments used to hedge, or if the exercise prices of the
Fund's call and put options
differ, so that the combined loss on these options during a market advance exceeds the gain on the underlying stock index.
Please be aware that
funds within the same category may
differ in investment strategy, portfolio
holdings and risk level.
This
differs from other index
funds, in that most are capitalization - based, meaning stocks with higher market capitalization (or value) are
held as a higher percentage of the
fund.
A crucial point about the
differing classes of mutual -
fund shares is that the best choice may depend heavily on how long you plan to
hold the shares.