Studying the active management environment

In this timely analysis, Wurts & Associates examines the active management environment, warning investors of the pitfalls of studying and choosing active managers including a reminder that reaching for high levels of benchmark relative excess returns can be potentially rewarded, but only in a marginal way relative to lower tracking error managers. It also concludes that measuring managers relative to capitalisation-weighted benchmarks isn’t fair.

 

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