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Is Active Share The Holy Grail For Active Managers?

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Rupert Hargreaves
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In 2009 Martijn Cremers from the University of Notre Dame and Antti Petajisto New York University (NYU) published a research paper introducing a new method for evaluating active fund managers. The researchers’ paper presented the term ‘ High Active Share ,' a metric for analyzing the share of portfolio holdings that differ from the benchmark index holdings.

By computing Active Share for domestic equity mutual funds from 1980 to 2003, the paper discovered...

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