Closet indexing is the practice of staying close to the benchmark index while still claiming to be an active mutual fund manager and charging active-management fees. Recent work shows that active mutual fund managers are more likely to closet index during down markets. Around the time of the...

This paper represents the first specific attempt in the literature to examine the relationship between active share and emerging market equity fund performance. Using a sample of U.S. based diversified emerging market equity funds whose prospectus benchmark is the MSCI emerging market equity...

This paper represents the first attempt in the literature to specifically and solely examine the relationship between active share and emerging market equity fund performance. To do this we use a sample of U.S.-based actively managed diversified emerging market equity funds that we follow for...

This paper explores a tactic in which managers of multiple funds diversify their positions so that the tracking error across their funds is mitigated and lower than the average tracking error of their individual funds. This paper introduces chained tracking error, which is the tracking error of...