Russ Kinnel says tracking error can help investors see how similar a fund's performance is to that of its benchmark.

What Is ‘Tracking Error’ in Oil Funds? Price changes in ETFs such as U.S. Oil Fund don’t always closely track changes in the price of the commodity By Simon Constable Follow ...

As the markets have gotten more volatile, and a number of hedge funds and a range of ‘alternative’ investment strategies have generated substantial losses, ...

Tracking Difference is the absolute difference between the returns of the fund and those of the benchmark at the end of the chosen investing period. For example, if you hold a passive fund for three ...

Tracking Error is the variation between the performance of a portfolio and the performance of the portfolio’s benchmark over time. Why would there be a difference?

The majority of exchange traded funds simply act as passive investment vehicles designed to replicate the return of a benchmark index, but there are times that the ETF may not perfectly reflect ...

Essentially, extraordinary tracking errors (over 2%) mean that there is most likely some active fund management going on and put bluntly, the fund isn’t achieving its mandate--to track its index.

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Tracking error can clearly matter to big institutional investors trading very large volumes and fretting over even the tiniest price variations.

The risk of your portfolio trailing popular benchmarks, such as the S&P 500, is a real risk that investors must take into account ...