A Simple Guide to Tracking Error

Tracking error offers more than a simple measurement of portfolio versus benchmark performance. We explain how it should be used to establish benchmark-relative performance expectations and the differences between realized versus predicted tracking error.

Parametric Enhanced Income Core

Many investors are drawn to the closed-end fund universe as a source of income. In this paper we highlight how closed-end funds may lend themselves to this aim as well as some of the potential drawbacks. We also describe an investment process designed to efficiently capture a stable income stream from the closed-end fund universe.