Active Fee Info

Enter passive fee: %

Active Fee is the annual expense ratio of the fund adjusted for the Active Share with respect to the self-declared benchmark and the expenses of investing in the self-declared benchmark index. Active Fee was introduced in a paper by Martijn Cremers and Quinn Curtis ("Do Mutual Fund Investors Get What They Pay For? The Legal Consequences of Closet Index Funds", 2016, Virginia Law & Business Review 11(1), 31-93). As our default, we calculate the Active Fee assuming that the benchmark index is available at no cost, but users have the option to input the costs associated with investing in the benchmark index and adjust the Active Fee for such costs. The precise formula for the Active Fee is as follows: Active Fee = [ER - (1-AS)*PF]/AS, where AS = Active Share, ER = Expense Ratio, PF = Passive Fee. Under our default assumption that PF = 0, Active Fee = ER / AS, or the ratio of the expense ratio over the Active Share.