Sentences with phrase «track the indices perfectly»

Finally, let's not forget that even if you end up getting the timing right and the hedged ETFs track their indexes perfectly, transaction costs and capital gains taxes can still take a significant bite out of your profits.

That means the fund managers not only tracked the indexes perfectly, they even managed to add a little value, probably through activities such as securities lending and arbitrage.

Using fund data is more realistic, because funds charge fees, don't necessarily track the indices perfectly, and have other implementation artifacts.

Not exact matches

We have tracked energy costs through a few different Canadian indices and they mirror the U.S. Department of Energy published data almost perfectly.

The data assume that funds based on the RAFI indexes would have tracked their benchmarks perfectly — and that's always a big assumption.

As such, an alpha of zero would indicate that the portfolio or fund is tracking perfectly with the benchmark index and that the manager has not added or lost any value.

The expectation is that the commodity indexes will be correlated with commodity prices but may not track them perfectly.

For example, some ETFs use a derivative called a swap, which tracks an index indirectly, but perfectly and cheaply.

This structure carries extra risk but has helped the ETF track its index almost perfectly.

Index ETFs don't always track the underlying asset perfectly and may vary as much as a percentage point at any given time.