While some plan sponsors may worry that CITs have a tracking error against their benchmarks, it is typically quite small and can sometimes be smaller than
the tracking error found in a mutual fund, because CITs are design exclusively for retirement plans, says Jeffrey McConnell, chief investment officer at Graystone Consulting in Purchase, New York.
Not exact matches
Mint offers a basic investment
tracking page, but I have
found errors in the past, for example when I stock I owned split and the cost basis was shown completely inaccurately.
And when you do look at those goals — as I have, on my tactical breakdowns, which you can
find on the site — you can see why Liverpool have dropped points, and more often than not it's because of some individual
error you can not account for, such as Lovren missing the ball, Matip leaving a header, Karius not positioning himself well enough, a midfielder not
tracking his man properly, or the team of officials being useless in enforcing the laws of the game.
I can not express how sad I was to
find an
error when I tried to get to your «Rollergirl; True Stories from the
Track» webpage.
For $ 40 per hour, I will review a manuscript's
Track Changes markup for accuracy, helping you ensure that the
errors found are indeed
errors.
They use a thick red pen (or rather the
Track Changes feature in Word) to kill off all spelling, grammar and punctuation
errors, streamline the sentences and
find that word you were looking for but never
found.
But if you take a slightly longer term view and consider the fact that XSP has trailed IVV returns in US dollars every year for the past five years, you'll
find that XSP's outperformance is significantly eroded by the
tracking error even with a significant appreciation in the Canadian dollar.
Using the BMO Equal Weight REITs (ZRE) as an example, you can click the Prices & Performance tab and
find a link to a
Tracking Error Chart, but the info is displayed only in graphical form.
In Part 1 of this series, we examined the
tracking error exhibited by the TD e-Series Canadian Bond Index Fund and the Canadian Index Fund and
found that both funds
track their respective benchmarks fairly well.
If a manager is realizing low average returns and has a large
tracking error, it is a sign that there is something significantly wrong with that investment and that the investor should most likely
find a replacement.
The only time that Athey has
found tracking errors in CITs is when their values are manually calculated on spreadsheets.
Further evidence of this comes from a Morgan Stanley study where they
found that US ETF
tracking error in 2009 averaged 1.25 % compared to only 0.52 % in 2008.
I'm going to post XIN's performance in the near future but I
found that XIN also showed a significant
tracking error.
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We
find that a smart beta strategy diversified across factors substantially reduces
tracking error relative to the average of the single - factor strategies, and dynamic rebalancing materially increases expected return relative to rebalancing to equal weights.
For our US smart beta portfolios, we
find that relative to systematic rebalancing, dynamic rebalancing slightly increases volatility and
tracking error, but lowers drawdowns and the duration of periods of underperformance.
If you
find an
error, such as an incorrect date, you will want to
track down documentation that shows the correct information.
While putting this post together, I
found this article over at IndexUniverse.com: ETF
Tracking Error Explodes in 2009.
If you
find yourself in a rut, don't give up, just take a breather and change
track - there really is an awful lot of trial and
error involved in this game and the sky isn't going fall if you don't get it right the first time, Chicken Little.
It takes a while to get the sensitive controls down, and I personally
found myself waggling back and forth a lot in trying to compensate for the
errors I'd make getting too close to the
track.
And we know that when people do eventually succeed in
tracking down the climatologists methods — for example in the Hockey Stick — the work is basically a pile of crap, and patience and persistence that
found the
errors years after publication.
Overall, we've
found the Charge 2 to be quite accurate on the sleep
tracking front, with no glaring
errors as far as we can tell.
• Test all aspects of developed software,
finding bugs or
errors, and keeping
track of all areas in need of correction, troubleshooting when necessary.
Developed an efficient way to
track control
errors and then
find ways to correct those
errors quickly.
Do you enjoy
finding errors and keeping
track of calendars?