Sentences with phrase «worst tracking errors»

The fund makes for an interesting exchange - traded fund in that it has one of the worst tracking errors in the business.

I personally prefer direct holding in US stocks because (a) they are cheaper (b) hedging has debatable benefits but certain costs including bad tracking error.

Like you say, the whole point of these Horizons ETFs is to avoid bad tracking errors.

Not exact matches

Trivially, a strategy of never hedging would completely eliminate our Type II errors - we would always track market advances, but only at the cost of quadrupling the depth of our worst losses.

While some research was previously done by his and other groups on a smaller scale, «This is the first real description of a method that could be used broadly across a range of conditions to operationally measure diagnostic errors and associated bad outcomes so that we can track our performance and see whether our interventions are making a difference,» Newman - Toker says.

But then there are foreign exchange rate fluctuations, withholding taxes, sampling errors etc. that could make the tracking errors worse (or better).

@CC: I would also suggest that the tracking error could also be due to bad timing.

Too much dispersion, or tracking error, is bad.

My conclusion based on the short history of currency - hedged funds is that the tracking error is so bad that we are better off holding US - based ETFs directly.

Now that Morningstar is tracking such data, investors bad behavior is finally quantified, as well the advantages of using a passive advisor who helps reduce investor error.