Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Investors who study their index funds closely eventually learn of tracking error -- the ...

There’s a fading but lingering misconception that socially responsible investing (SRI) means sacrificing returns against a benchmark. When evaluating the pros and cons of responsible investing, ...

Christine Benz: Hi, I'm Christine Benz for Morningstar.com. What is tracking error, and what information does it yield about mutual funds? Joining me to discuss that topic is Russ Kinnel. He is ...

(MoneyWatch) Investing in stocks involves accepting economic and political risks in return for higher expected returns than you can earn investing in Treasury bills or CDs. To help address these risks ...

In the month of June, the market price of iShares MSCI Emerging Markets( EEM) had a volatility that was 27% greater than its index and an annualized tracking error of ...

Advisers today can access more-exotic locales and asset classes than ever before, thanks to exchange-traded funds. The evolution of the ETF universe, however, means ...

Hay has been made about exchange traded fund ( ETF) tracking error, but a recent analysis shows that it's far from a big problem. Deutsche Bank 's ETF analyst ...

Tracking error is defined as the standard deviation of the difference between the fund’s returns and the returns on the index. In an ideal world, a tracker fund or ...