In addition, using the turnover rates, WAMC ratios, and effective Ns as inputs to a model developed by Research Affiliates employees Michael Aked and Max Moroz, the authors determined that the constraints materially lowered the simulated portfolios»
implicit trading costs.
Implementation issues encountered in designing low - volatility investment strategies include unwelcome concentrations in certain regions, countries, and economic sectors; the combination of low liquidity and high turnover, raising
implicit trading costs; and high tracking error relative to broad capitalization - weighted market benchmarks.
Hidden Trading Costs
Implicit trading costs are the loss of performance due to transactions occurring at prices that would not have prevailed if investors didn't need to enter trades.
In addition, the way active fund managers manage their funds can incur
implicit trading costs.
But it's lunacy to believe that the implementation of popular capitalization - based indices is costless, that their negative selection and weighting bias is zero, or that
their implicit trading cost as a percentage of aggregate assets is currently below that of well - designed smart - beta offerings.
In particular, the implementation of popular capitalization - based indices is not costless; indeed, as a percentage of aggregate assets,
their implicit trading cost is meaningfully higher than that of well - designed smart - beta offerings.
Not exact matches
The
implicit cost is the unobserved reduction in performance of the benchmark index as a result of
trading activity.
Executive Summary The market impact, or implementation
cost, of passive
trading is composed of both explicit and
implicit costs.
Customized total
cost analyses that factor in
implicit costs (
trading costs, tracking error) as well as explicit
costs (expense ratios and commissions).
With some simplifying assumptions, five factors are responsible for the
implicit costs associated with
trading a strategy: