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Active Share: Predicting Alpha and Risk
By                                            S u m m ar y
Kent Stahl, CFA                              As one of our 35-year equity veterans has often said, “The best way to beat a benchmark is to be
Director, Investments and
Risk Management                               as different from it as possible.” Simply put, active share quantifies this difference. What’s more,
                                              a growing body of evidence suggests that active share is highly predictive of alpha potential.
Gregg Thomas, CFA
Director, Risk Management                     Thus far, however, the research has focused only on US-oriented mutual funds in aggregate.
                                              While the general conclusion is that high active-share managers have performed well overall,
Tom Simon, CFA, FRM
Manager, Risk Management                      very little research has been done on whether this is the case across investment categories. In
                                              addition, almost no research has been done on the potential benefits of active share as a risk
                                              measure and on whether pursuing high active-share strategies is practical within the typical
                                              institutional investment framework.

                                              This paper summarizes our research on the predictive capabilities of active share within key
                                              investment categories in terms of both alpha potential and relative risk. Our key findings are:

                                            High active-share managers have outperformed low active-share managers across a
                                                  variety of equity categories, particularly US all-cap, global, and international.

                                            Active share forecasts alpha well in most categories, with the exception of large-cap
                                                  growth and small-cap stocks.

                                            Active share is comparable to projected tracking risk as a tool for forecasting relative risk.
                                            High active-share managers experience more significant drawdowns, and may not be
                                                  practical for many institutions.

                                            Diversified high active-share strategies tend to improve alpha while minimizing
                                                  drawdowns associated with high active-share managers.




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Background                                                                          may be explained in part by the fact that the late 1990s were
For the better part of a decade, Wellington Management has                          associated with incredibly high stock-specific volatility due
utilized active share in various internal peer review settings                      to the TMT (technology, media, and telecom) bubble and, as
with our equity portfolio teams, as a gauge of “money at                            a result, many managers began to employ more sophisticated
risk” in our client portfolios. Active share is the sum of the                      risk-control techniques. This was also a period when the
absolute value of all the overweights and underweights in a                         nine-style-box-evaluation framework (large/mid/small by
portfolio relative to a benchmark, divided by 2. As an exam-                        growth/value/ core) was becoming more widely adopted by
ple, if Cisco is 2% of an index and the manager has a 4%                            the mutual fund industry. Thus, managers were, to an extent,
position in the stock, this would be counted as 2% in active                        forced to control risk to stay within their box. More recently,
share. If the manager does not own Cisco, this would also                           the percentage of US-oriented equity mutual funds with
count as 2% in active share. After completing this calculation                      active share greater than 80% has remained relatively con-
for every stock in the portfolio and the benchmark, these                           stant at about 20% of all funds.
absolute weighting differences are summed and the total is
divided by 2. An index fund would have an active share of                           A More Detailed Picture of Active Share
0%, while a portfolio that does not own any stocks within                           While previous studies like Professor Petajisto’s have inter-
the benchmark would have an active share of 100%.                                   mixed investment styles, most institutions allocate assets
                                                                                    across more narrowly defined categories. Therefore, to further
New York University Professor Antti Petajisto, one of the lead-
                                                                                    assess the merits of active share, we developed a proprietary
ing researchers of active share, has done much to popularize
                                                                                    peer risk database. Though it is similar to databases used in
the concept among investment industry practitioners. In his
                                                                                    most academic studies in that it relies on mutual fund hold-
2010 paper, “Active Share and Mutual Fund Performance,”
                                                                                    ings (all mutual funds with more than $10 million in assets
Professor Petajisto draws on broadly available mutual fund
                                                                                    were included), it is built with a broader array of information
holdings data to map the decline of high active-share funds
                                                                                    to test other relationships and investment types. Based on
from the 1980s to the present. As Figure 1 shows, during the
                                                                                    this database, Figure 2 shows the percentage of equity mutual
1990s, the percentage of US-oriented equity mutual funds
                                                                                    funds with active share greater than 80% in some of the main
with high active share dropped by an astounding 70%. This
                                                                                    categories considered by institutional investors.




      About the Authors
      The members of the Investments and Risk
      Management team focus on investment trends and
      major risks across our equity, asset allocation, and
      fixed income products, platforms, and clients. They
      are actively involved in portfolio oversight pro-
      cesses and conduct style, performance attribution,
      correlation, risk, and capacity analysis across the
      firm’s portfolios. In addition, Kent Stahl and Gregg
      Thomas are portfolio managers for multi-manager
      solutions offered by the firm. Tom Simon serves as         Kent Stahl, CFA              Gregg Thomas, CFA         Tom Simon, CFA, FRM
                                                                 Director, Investments        Director, Risk            Manager, Risk
      an analyst for these multi-manager solutions.
                                                                 and Risk Management          Management                Management




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  Figure 1                                                                           Figure 2

    Percent of Mutual Funds with Active Share                                          A Closer Look at Investment Categories
    Greater Than 80% Has Declined Significantly
                                                                                                      Percent of Mutual Funds with Active Share
                                                                                                      Greater Than 80%
              70                                                                                100
              60                                                                                 90
                                                                                                 80
              50                                                                                 70
              40                                                                                 60
    Percent




                                                                                      Percent
                                                                                                 50
              30                                                                                 40
              20                                                                                 30
                                                                                                 20
              10
                                                                                                 10
              0                                                                                   0
                   80 82 84 86 88 90 92 94 96 98 00 02 04 06 08                                         US        US       US        US         US       Global   EAFE
                                                                                                       Large-   Large-    Large-     All       Small
                                                                                                        Cap      Cap       Cap       Cap       Cap
    Source: Petajisto, “Active Share and Mutual Fund Performance,” 2010.                                Core    Growth    Value


                                                                                       Source: Wellington Management Peer Risk Database, as of December 31, 2010.
In market segments where benchmarks are more concentrated
— and where risk control is more important — fewer mutual
funds had high active share. Specifically, in large-cap equity                       Figure 3
categories, roughly 1 in 5 funds had an active share greater
than 80%. However, in broader, less constrained categories,                            High Active-Share Managers Have Added More
such as multi-cap or global equity, the majority of funds had                          Value Over Time
a relatively high active share. So, the lack of managers with
                                                                                                      Annualized Difference in Value Added
high active share observed in Professor Petajisto’s research                                     7
appears to be limited to larger-cap US equity segments.                                          6
                                                                                                 5
                                                                                                 4
 High Active-Share Managers
                                                                                       Percent




                                                                                                 3
 Have Outperformed
                                                                                                 2
Using our database, we also discovered that high active-                                         1

share managers have shown a tendency to outperform low                                           0
                                                                                                 -1
active-share managers in most of the primary institutional
                                                                                                 -2
investment categories, but not all. In our analysis, we grouped                                         US     US     US       US       US      Global    EAFE Average
                                                                                                      Large- Large- Large-     All     Small
all funds within a category into quintiles based on their                                              Cap    Cap    Cap       Cap      Cap
active share at year-end 2002, 2005, and 2007. We then com-                                            Core Growth Value

pared the difference in the before-fee returns between the                                                      3 Years              5 Years                  8 Years
top 20% of managers in terms of active share and the bottom
20% through the end of 2010. Figure 3 shows the difference in                          Source: Wellington Management Peer Risk Database, based on holdings at the
                                                                                       beginning of the period. As of December 31, 2010.
returns over the various time periods.

Taking the average alpha across all categories, high active-
share managers outperformed low active-share managers
by 2% annually for the 3-year period and by approximately
1.5% annually for the 5- and 8-year periods. The difference
was most notable in the more broadly defined categories,


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including US all-cap, global equity, and international equity.                               ity. Therefore, while active share is a very useful tool, it does
In US large-cap growth and US small cap, the difference was                                  have limitations in predicting alpha in certain categories.
small or inconsistent over time.
                                                                                             Does Active Share Forecast Relative Risk?
Active Share as a Predictor of Alpha                                                         We also investigated the usefulness of active share as a
To evaluate the significance of active share as a predictor of                               forward-looking risk measure relative to another commonly
alpha potential, we ranked all funds within a category based                                 used metric: tracking risk. Specifically, we evaluated the
on their active share as of year-end 2007 and then compared                                  rank correlation between the active share of the various
the results with the rank of their alpha over the following                                  funds at year-end 2007 and the realized tracking risk rank of
three years ended December 31, 2010. Figure 4 shows the                                      the funds over the ensuing three years ended December 31,
rank correlation of active share and alpha potential.                                        2010. We then compared the results with the rank correlation
                                                                                             between the predicted tracking risk at year-end 2007 (based
A rank correlation of greater than ~0.20 is considered statisti-
                                                                                             on BARRA’s tracking-risk metric) and the realized track-
cally significant (99% confidence). Accordingly, active share
                                                                                             ing risk over the three years ended December 31, 2010. The
appears to be an excellent predictor of alpha potential in most
                                                                                             results are shown in Figure 5.
categories. The exceptions are large-cap growth and small-cap
equity. Large-cap growth tends to be a category where the                                    Overall, both metrics have a very high rank correlation with
median manager is likely to have a high beta bias. Consumer                                  future realized tracking risk. While projected tracking risk
staples stocks, which represent a large weight in the index                                  is slightly superior and more consistent than active share
and have lower beta characteristics, tend to be a consistent                                 in forecasting risk, the incremental difference in predic-
underweight for growth managers. During the global finan-                                    tive capabilities is relatively small given the effort and cost
cial crisis, this beta bias appears to have dominated the                                    involved in determining projected tracking risk.
relative return profile of the universe, making active share
                                                                                             In addition, one reason we have used active share in our
less relevant. In the small-cap segment, most managers tend
                                                                                             internal review settings is that it is consistent over time as
to have a high active share, so there is less predictive capabil-
                                                                                             a measure of relative risk. Most other commonly used risk




 Figure 4                                                                                     Figure 5

    A Strong Signal of Value Added                                                              Predicting Risk: Active Share Versus Tracking Risk

                     Rank Correlation with Value Added, 2008 – 2010                                             Rank Correlation with Realized Tracking Risk, 2008 – 2010
               0.4                                                                                        1.0
                                            99% Confidence                                                0.9             Active Share YE07             BARRA T-Risk YE07
               0.3
                                                                                                          0.8
               0.2                                                                                        0.7
               0.1                                                                                        0.6
    Percent




                                                                                                Percent




                                                                                                          0.5
                0
                                                                                                          0.4
              -0.1                                                                                        0.3
                                                                                                          0.2
              -0.2
                                                                                                          0.1
              -0.3                                                                                        0.0
                       US     US     US     US      US       Global   EAFE Average                                US     US       US      US     US      Global   EAFE   Average
                     Large- Large- Large-   All    Small                                                         Large- Large-   Large-   All   Small
                      Cap    Cap    Cap     Cap     Cap                                                           Cap    Cap      Cap     Cap    Cap
                      Core Growth Value                                                                           Core Growth    Value

                                        Active Share Year-End 2007
                                                                                                Source: Wellington Management Peer Risk Database, based on holdings at the
                                                                                                beginning of the period. As of December 31, 2010.
    Source: Wellington Management Peer Risk Database, based on holdings at the
    beginning of the period. As of December 31, 2010.


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measures tend to use historical information in determining                                   not just the number of names but also the types of names a
risk, and thus the results can vary significantly depending                                  manager owns that determines active share. In fact, many of
on the time period sampled. For example, we calculated the                                   the highest active-share strategies at Wellington Management
tracking risk for approximately 100 of our equity strategies at                              often own well in excess of 100 securities.
the end of the second quarter of 2009, just after the financial
                                                                                             A common question we receive is whether concentrated
crisis ended. We then rolled back the clock and recalculated
                                                                                             funds do just as well as high active-share funds. To address
the tracking risk using the same portfolios and benchmarks
                                                                                             this, we ranked each fund based on the number of holdings
from 2009 but with the risk model from the second quarter
                                                                                             at year-end 2007 and then compared the result with the alpha
of 2007. The projected risk levels dropped by half using the
                                                                                             realized over the following three years ended December 31,
earlier model! Clearly, risk increased precipitously during
                                                                                             2010. Figure 6 shows the rank correlation between the num-
this period, and risk models continue to be an important ele-
                                                                                             ber of names and alpha as compared to the rank correlation of
ment in the mosaic of information that we use to evaluate
                                                                                             active share and alpha in each of the major Lipper categories.
our strategies. However, active share lessens the ambiguity in
interpreting time period-dependent results of risk models like                               In every single category, active share had a higher rank cor-
this, as it should be constant as long as the manager is invest-                             relation with future alpha than the concentration level, as
ing consistently.                                                                            measured by the number of names. Clearly, there is a relation-
                                                                                             ship between the two metrics, but concentration alone does not
Is a Concentrated Portfolio Required                                                         fully explain the strong forecasting ability of active share.
for High Active Share?
Many assume that high active share is synonymous with port-                                  Is Historical Tracking Risk A Good Proxy
folio concentration. Concentrating a portfolio is one method
                                                                                             for Active Share?
for creating high active share as it generally forces a manager                              Since active share is not widely available in institutional
to make larger bets on individual securities. However, it is                                 universes, many use historical tracking risk as a proxy for
                                                                                             identifying high active-share managers. But while many
                                                                                             high active-share managers have high realized tracking risk,
 Figure 6                                                                                    so do many low active-share managers. As an example, some
                                                                                             managers make large factor or industry bets while running
    Active Share a Better Alpha Indicator                                                    highly diversified portfolios. Therefore, a manager’s active
    Than Portfolio Concentration                                                             share may be low but the tracking risk can be quite high.
                                                                                             In addition, many high active-share managers have low to
                     Rank Correlation with Value Added, 2008 – 2010
               0.5                                                                           moderate tracking risk. Diversified managers focused on
               0.4                                                                           stock picking often exhibit this characteristic. Consistent
                                            99% Confidence
               0.3                                                                           with our other analyses, we ranked the three-year historical
               0.2                                                                           tracking risk of all funds in our database as of year-end 2007
    Percent




               0.1                                                                           and compared the result with the rank of their alpha over
                0
                                                                                             the ensuing three years ended December 31, 2010.
              -0.1
              -0.2                                                                           As shown in Figure 7, historical tracking risk is generally
              -0.3                                                                           a poor predictor of future alpha potential. The relationship
                      US     US     US      US       US      Global   EAFE Average
                     Large- Large- Large-   All     Small                                    was significant in only two of the eight categories analyzed.
                      Cap    Cap    Cap     Cap      Cap                                     In addition, tracking risk tends to do poorly in many of
                      Core Growth Value
                                                                                             the broader categories where active share has a very strong
                                     Active Share, Year-End 2007                             relationship with alpha potential, like the global or US all-
                                     Number of Names, Year-End 2007                          cap areas. So, high alpha is not necessarily associated with
                                                                                             high tracking risk.
    Source: Wellington Management Peer Risk Database, based on holdings at the
    beginning of the period. As of December 31, 2010.



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                                                                                                 High active-share strategies also tend to be inherently
 Figure 7
                                                                                                 volatile. As an example, Figure 8 shows the median worst
                                                                                                 one-year relative performance for the top 20% of active-share
    Historical Tracking Risk:                                                                    managers in the different categories of our database over the
    A Poor Substitute for Active Share                                                           five years ended December 31, 2010. On average, over any
                                                                                                 given 12-month period, high active-share managers have
                     Rank Correlation with Value Added, 2008 – 2010
               0.4
                                                                                                 experienced underperformance in excess of 10% relative
                                            99% Confidence                                       to their benchmark. For comparison, the average alpha draw-
               0.3
                                                                                                 down of all the managers over this period was about 6%.
               0.2
                                                                                                 Investing in high active-share strategies requires the ability
               0.1
    Percent




                                                                                                 to withstand periods of significant underperformance in
                0
                                                                                                 pursuit of superior long-term returns.
              -0.1
              -0.2                                                                               Finally, there is no single “right” level of active share for all
              -0.3                                                                               managers. As we have discussed, active share varies among
                      US     US     US      US       US      Global   EAFE Average               different categories of managers. In the US large-cap space,
                     Large- Large- Large-   All     Small
                      Cap    Cap    Cap     Cap      Cap                                         an active share of 60% is fairly common. In highly diversi-
                      Core Growth Value
                                                                                                 fied areas, like small cap, active share is often close to 90% as
                                    Active Share, Year-End 2007                                  virtually every stock in the portfolio represents a significant
                                                                                                 bet versus the benchmark weight. What makes a good level of
                                    Realized Tracking Risk, 2005 – 2007
                                                                                                 active share greatly depends on the peer investment universe
                                                                                                 and benchmark used. Importantly, as with any risk metric,
    Source: Wellington Management Peer Risk Database, based on holdings at the
    beginning of the period. As of December 31, 2010.                                            active share should be used in combination with other mea-
                                                                                                 sures in order to gain more robust insights into portfolio risks.

Limitations of Active Share
As noted earlier, active share is not without limitations.                                        Figure 8
Traditional style analysis and performance evaluation tools
are much less relevant to high active-share managers, as                                            Drawdowns: The Achilles Heel of High Active-
stock-specific characteristics tend to dominate performance.                                        Share Managers?
Style characteristics, like growth, value, or market cap, also
                                                                                                                    Worst One-Year Relative Performance, 2006 – 2010
change more frequently in high active-share strategies,                                                        0
making them challenging to utilize within the nine-style-                                                      -2
box-evaluation framework that many have implemented. In                                                        -4
addition, the performance of high active-share strategies                                                      -6
                                                                                                    Percent




tends to rely much more on manager skill than on process.                                                      -8
This may require a more qualitative manager selection                                                         -10
approach than most are accustomed to.
                                                                                                              -12
Capacity for many of these approaches may also be con-                                                        -14
                                                                                                                      US     US     US     US     US     Global   EAFE Average
strained, which may effectively rule out this type of approach                                                      Large- Large- Large-   All   Small
for larger institutional investors. In addition, management                                                          Cap    Cap    Cap     Cap    Cap
                                                                                                                     Core Growth Value
fees are often relatively high given the active nature of these
strategies, and many high active-share strategies have short                                        Source: Wellington Management Peer Risk Database, based on holdings at the
track records or are relatively small in terms of assets, limit-                                    beginning of the period. As of December 31, 2010.
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Retain the Alpha, Curtail the Risk                                                    be in the worst one-year alpha drawdown. For all diversi-
While we have seen that high active-share strategies on aver-                         fied strategies, the drawdown averaged around 7%. For the
age have greater risk potential, the evidence demonstrated                            high active-share/concentrated strategies, the worst one-year
in Figure 9 indicates high active-share strategies that are                           alpha drawdown averaged close to 12%. However, for high
also reasonably diversified tend to retain their edge in add-                         active-share but diversified strategies, the average alpha
ing value while significantly dampening alpha drawdowns.                              drawdown was around 8.5%. While marginally worse than
Figure 10 shows the average annual alpha and worst one-year                           the aggregate category of diversified strategies, the incre-
alpha drawdown for all funds in our peer universe segmented                           mental alpha over time of the diversified high active-share
between high active-share strategies with more than 100                               subset warrants consideration.
names, high active-share strategies with less than 35 names,
and all strategies with more than 100 names over the five                             Using Active Share to Structure
years ended 2010, based on holdings as of December 31, 2005.                          Multi-Manager Portfolios
                                                                                      For six years, we have been using active share as a key ele-
Similar to earlier results, both categories of high active-share
                                                                                      ment in running US, global, and non-US multi-manager
strategies outperformed, with an edge to those owning
                                                                                      portfolios. The original concept was to create a high-alpha,
more than 100 stocks. However, the bigger difference may
                                                                                      high-capacity, all-weather portfolio that minimized the
                                                                                      big drawdowns that typically accompany strategies that
                                                                                      aggressively pursue total return. However, the challenge for
 Figure 9
                                                                                      most multi-strategy portfolios is that they tend to be over-
    Diversified High Active-Share Approaches                                          diversified. We refer to this as “deworsification,” or paying
                                                                                      an active management fee for a closet index fund.
                     Average Annualized Alpha, 2006 – 2010
               0.8                                                                    Active share has been a key element in helping us accom-
               0.6                                                                    plish our objectives and avoid the closet-indexing concerns.
               0.4                                                                    As a firm, we offer over 100 different equity strategies.
               0.2
                                                                                      Within our multi-manager portfolios, we focus on a select
    Percent




                0
                                                                                      subset of these strategies that have very high active share;
              -0.2
                                                                                      the median active share of the strategies we use is in excess
              -0.4
                                                                                      of 90%. We ask all of the managers in our multi-manager
              -0.6
              -0.8
                                                                                      portfolios to avoid risk-control positions, as we manage risk
                         High AS and       High AS and       Names 100               through our approach to combining the managers. As a
                         Names 100        Names 35
                                                                                      result, most of the strategies we use are highly volatile and
                     Worst One-Year Relative Returns, 2006 – 2010                     also have limited capacity, so they tend not to be those most
                -6
                                                                                      commonly used in traditional investment channels.
                -7
                                                                                      In combining managers, we require that each approach be
                -8
                                                                                      an independent alpha generator. While we use many of our
     Percent




                -9                                                                    internally developed risk-management systems to evaluate
               -10                                                                    this, one that we find very informative is the portfolio over-
               -11
                                                                                      lap matrix. As an example, we calculate the portfolio overlap
                                                                                      between a strategy and every other approach in the portfolio.
               -12
                         High AS and       High AS and       Names 100               We generally will not include any strategy where there is a
                         Names 100        Names 35


    Source: Wellington Management Peer Risk Database, based on holdings at the
    beginning of the period. As of December 31, 2010.




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high degree of overlap with any other strategy. Figure 10 is                                Conclusion
the overlap matrix for the strategies included in our global                                Active share is a straightforward and effective tool for moni-
portfolio at year-end 2010.                                                                 toring risk, evaluating managers, and structuring portfolios.
In almost all pairings, the overlap is less than 25%. In fact,                              Clearly, there are exceptions to every rule, as there are many
across all pairings, the average overlap is approximately                                   great managers who have low active share and many poor
7%, which means that on average only a couple of stocks                                     managers who have high active share. In this context, no
are held in common across the different pairings. In those                                  single metric should ever be used in isolation as they all
few pairings where the overlap is moderate, this tends to be                                have strengths and weaknesses. But the empirical evidence
only a temporary phenomenon. While the overall portfolio                                    is supportive of this tool as part of the mosaic of information
owns, on average, more than 400 stocks, nearly 80% of these                                 that should be considered.
holdings are unique to an individual manager. Despite the
diversified nature of the portfolio, the active share is still
very high overall, as virtually every single position repre-
sents a significant active bet for the underlying manager
given the low overlap. By structuring portfolios in this way,
our experience has been that it is possible to retain the alpha
generation capability while limiting significant drawdowns,
consistent with the academic research.



 Figure 10

   Low Portfolio Overlap May Lead to Diversified Sources of Alpha
   Overlap of Holdings (% of Equity Assets)
                                    Select               Global           Global                            Global                                              Global
                                    Global               Growth           Opportunistic Special             Diversified      Global All Cap      Global Select Contrarian
                                    Value                Horizons         Value         Equity              Growth           Opportunities       Quality Equity Equity
    Select Global Value
    Global Growth Horizons
    Global Opportunistic Value
    Special Equity
    Global Diversified Growth
    Global All Cap Opportunities
    Global Select Quality Equity
    Global Contrarian Equity
                                                                                                                                                  Overlap
    77% of holdings are unique to one strategy                                                                                                             25%

    No stocks held by more than six of the managers                                                                                                        25 – 50%
                                                                                                                                                           50%

   Holdings derived from representative accounts in each style. Shaded cells represent the percent of assets of the column heading that are contained in the row heading.
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  • 1. April W ELLINGTON M A N AGEM EN T 2011 Solutions Active Share: Predicting Alpha and Risk By S u m m ar y Kent Stahl, CFA As one of our 35-year equity veterans has often said, “The best way to beat a benchmark is to be Director, Investments and Risk Management as different from it as possible.” Simply put, active share quantifies this difference. What’s more, a growing body of evidence suggests that active share is highly predictive of alpha potential. Gregg Thomas, CFA Director, Risk Management Thus far, however, the research has focused only on US-oriented mutual funds in aggregate. While the general conclusion is that high active-share managers have performed well overall, Tom Simon, CFA, FRM Manager, Risk Management very little research has been done on whether this is the case across investment categories. In addition, almost no research has been done on the potential benefits of active share as a risk measure and on whether pursuing high active-share strategies is practical within the typical institutional investment framework. This paper summarizes our research on the predictive capabilities of active share within key investment categories in terms of both alpha potential and relative risk. Our key findings are: High active-share managers have outperformed low active-share managers across a variety of equity categories, particularly US all-cap, global, and international. Active share forecasts alpha well in most categories, with the exception of large-cap growth and small-cap stocks. Active share is comparable to projected tracking risk as a tool for forecasting relative risk. High active-share managers experience more significant drawdowns, and may not be practical for many institutions. Diversified high active-share strategies tend to improve alpha while minimizing drawdowns associated with high active-share managers. FOR BROKER DEALER USE ONLY—NOT FOR USE WITH THE PUBLIC
  • 2. Active Share: Predicting Alpha and Risk Background may be explained in part by the fact that the late 1990s were For the better part of a decade, Wellington Management has associated with incredibly high stock-specific volatility due utilized active share in various internal peer review settings to the TMT (technology, media, and telecom) bubble and, as with our equity portfolio teams, as a gauge of “money at a result, many managers began to employ more sophisticated risk” in our client portfolios. Active share is the sum of the risk-control techniques. This was also a period when the absolute value of all the overweights and underweights in a nine-style-box-evaluation framework (large/mid/small by portfolio relative to a benchmark, divided by 2. As an exam- growth/value/ core) was becoming more widely adopted by ple, if Cisco is 2% of an index and the manager has a 4% the mutual fund industry. Thus, managers were, to an extent, position in the stock, this would be counted as 2% in active forced to control risk to stay within their box. More recently, share. If the manager does not own Cisco, this would also the percentage of US-oriented equity mutual funds with count as 2% in active share. After completing this calculation active share greater than 80% has remained relatively con- for every stock in the portfolio and the benchmark, these stant at about 20% of all funds. absolute weighting differences are summed and the total is divided by 2. An index fund would have an active share of A More Detailed Picture of Active Share 0%, while a portfolio that does not own any stocks within While previous studies like Professor Petajisto’s have inter- the benchmark would have an active share of 100%. mixed investment styles, most institutions allocate assets across more narrowly defined categories. Therefore, to further New York University Professor Antti Petajisto, one of the lead- assess the merits of active share, we developed a proprietary ing researchers of active share, has done much to popularize peer risk database. Though it is similar to databases used in the concept among investment industry practitioners. In his most academic studies in that it relies on mutual fund hold- 2010 paper, “Active Share and Mutual Fund Performance,” ings (all mutual funds with more than $10 million in assets Professor Petajisto draws on broadly available mutual fund were included), it is built with a broader array of information holdings data to map the decline of high active-share funds to test other relationships and investment types. Based on from the 1980s to the present. As Figure 1 shows, during the this database, Figure 2 shows the percentage of equity mutual 1990s, the percentage of US-oriented equity mutual funds funds with active share greater than 80% in some of the main with high active share dropped by an astounding 70%. This categories considered by institutional investors. About the Authors The members of the Investments and Risk Management team focus on investment trends and major risks across our equity, asset allocation, and fixed income products, platforms, and clients. They are actively involved in portfolio oversight pro- cesses and conduct style, performance attribution, correlation, risk, and capacity analysis across the firm’s portfolios. In addition, Kent Stahl and Gregg Thomas are portfolio managers for multi-manager solutions offered by the firm. Tom Simon serves as Kent Stahl, CFA Gregg Thomas, CFA Tom Simon, CFA, FRM Director, Investments Director, Risk Manager, Risk an analyst for these multi-manager solutions. and Risk Management Management Management FOR BROKER DEALER USE ONLY—NOT FOR USE WITH THE PUBLIC Wellington Management 2 Solutions
  • 3. Active Share: Predicting Alpha and Risk Figure 1 Figure 2 Percent of Mutual Funds with Active Share A Closer Look at Investment Categories Greater Than 80% Has Declined Significantly Percent of Mutual Funds with Active Share Greater Than 80% 70 100 60 90 80 50 70 40 60 Percent Percent 50 30 40 20 30 20 10 10 0 0 80 82 84 86 88 90 92 94 96 98 00 02 04 06 08 US US US US US Global EAFE Large- Large- Large- All Small Cap Cap Cap Cap Cap Source: Petajisto, “Active Share and Mutual Fund Performance,” 2010. Core Growth Value Source: Wellington Management Peer Risk Database, as of December 31, 2010. In market segments where benchmarks are more concentrated — and where risk control is more important — fewer mutual funds had high active share. Specifically, in large-cap equity Figure 3 categories, roughly 1 in 5 funds had an active share greater than 80%. However, in broader, less constrained categories, High Active-Share Managers Have Added More such as multi-cap or global equity, the majority of funds had Value Over Time a relatively high active share. So, the lack of managers with Annualized Difference in Value Added high active share observed in Professor Petajisto’s research 7 appears to be limited to larger-cap US equity segments. 6 5 4 High Active-Share Managers Percent 3 Have Outperformed 2 Using our database, we also discovered that high active- 1 share managers have shown a tendency to outperform low 0 -1 active-share managers in most of the primary institutional -2 investment categories, but not all. In our analysis, we grouped US US US US US Global EAFE Average Large- Large- Large- All Small all funds within a category into quintiles based on their Cap Cap Cap Cap Cap active share at year-end 2002, 2005, and 2007. We then com- Core Growth Value pared the difference in the before-fee returns between the 3 Years 5 Years 8 Years top 20% of managers in terms of active share and the bottom 20% through the end of 2010. Figure 3 shows the difference in Source: Wellington Management Peer Risk Database, based on holdings at the beginning of the period. As of December 31, 2010. returns over the various time periods. Taking the average alpha across all categories, high active- share managers outperformed low active-share managers by 2% annually for the 3-year period and by approximately 1.5% annually for the 5- and 8-year periods. The difference was most notable in the more broadly defined categories, FOR BROKER DEALER USE ONLY—NOT FOR USE WITH THE PUBLIC Wellington Management 3 Solutions
  • 4. Active Share: Predicting Alpha and Risk including US all-cap, global equity, and international equity. ity. Therefore, while active share is a very useful tool, it does In US large-cap growth and US small cap, the difference was have limitations in predicting alpha in certain categories. small or inconsistent over time. Does Active Share Forecast Relative Risk? Active Share as a Predictor of Alpha We also investigated the usefulness of active share as a To evaluate the significance of active share as a predictor of forward-looking risk measure relative to another commonly alpha potential, we ranked all funds within a category based used metric: tracking risk. Specifically, we evaluated the on their active share as of year-end 2007 and then compared rank correlation between the active share of the various the results with the rank of their alpha over the following funds at year-end 2007 and the realized tracking risk rank of three years ended December 31, 2010. Figure 4 shows the the funds over the ensuing three years ended December 31, rank correlation of active share and alpha potential. 2010. We then compared the results with the rank correlation between the predicted tracking risk at year-end 2007 (based A rank correlation of greater than ~0.20 is considered statisti- on BARRA’s tracking-risk metric) and the realized track- cally significant (99% confidence). Accordingly, active share ing risk over the three years ended December 31, 2010. The appears to be an excellent predictor of alpha potential in most results are shown in Figure 5. categories. The exceptions are large-cap growth and small-cap equity. Large-cap growth tends to be a category where the Overall, both metrics have a very high rank correlation with median manager is likely to have a high beta bias. Consumer future realized tracking risk. While projected tracking risk staples stocks, which represent a large weight in the index is slightly superior and more consistent than active share and have lower beta characteristics, tend to be a consistent in forecasting risk, the incremental difference in predic- underweight for growth managers. During the global finan- tive capabilities is relatively small given the effort and cost cial crisis, this beta bias appears to have dominated the involved in determining projected tracking risk. relative return profile of the universe, making active share In addition, one reason we have used active share in our less relevant. In the small-cap segment, most managers tend internal review settings is that it is consistent over time as to have a high active share, so there is less predictive capabil- a measure of relative risk. Most other commonly used risk Figure 4 Figure 5 A Strong Signal of Value Added Predicting Risk: Active Share Versus Tracking Risk Rank Correlation with Value Added, 2008 – 2010 Rank Correlation with Realized Tracking Risk, 2008 – 2010 0.4 1.0 99% Confidence 0.9 Active Share YE07 BARRA T-Risk YE07 0.3 0.8 0.2 0.7 0.1 0.6 Percent Percent 0.5 0 0.4 -0.1 0.3 0.2 -0.2 0.1 -0.3 0.0 US US US US US Global EAFE Average US US US US US Global EAFE Average Large- Large- Large- All Small Large- Large- Large- All Small Cap Cap Cap Cap Cap Cap Cap Cap Cap Cap Core Growth Value Core Growth Value Active Share Year-End 2007 Source: Wellington Management Peer Risk Database, based on holdings at the beginning of the period. As of December 31, 2010. Source: Wellington Management Peer Risk Database, based on holdings at the beginning of the period. As of December 31, 2010. FOR BROKER DEALER USE ONLY—NOT FOR USE WITH THE PUBLIC Wellington Management 4 Solutions
  • 5. Active Share: Predicting Alpha and Risk measures tend to use historical information in determining not just the number of names but also the types of names a risk, and thus the results can vary significantly depending manager owns that determines active share. In fact, many of on the time period sampled. For example, we calculated the the highest active-share strategies at Wellington Management tracking risk for approximately 100 of our equity strategies at often own well in excess of 100 securities. the end of the second quarter of 2009, just after the financial A common question we receive is whether concentrated crisis ended. We then rolled back the clock and recalculated funds do just as well as high active-share funds. To address the tracking risk using the same portfolios and benchmarks this, we ranked each fund based on the number of holdings from 2009 but with the risk model from the second quarter at year-end 2007 and then compared the result with the alpha of 2007. The projected risk levels dropped by half using the realized over the following three years ended December 31, earlier model! Clearly, risk increased precipitously during 2010. Figure 6 shows the rank correlation between the num- this period, and risk models continue to be an important ele- ber of names and alpha as compared to the rank correlation of ment in the mosaic of information that we use to evaluate active share and alpha in each of the major Lipper categories. our strategies. However, active share lessens the ambiguity in interpreting time period-dependent results of risk models like In every single category, active share had a higher rank cor- this, as it should be constant as long as the manager is invest- relation with future alpha than the concentration level, as ing consistently. measured by the number of names. Clearly, there is a relation- ship between the two metrics, but concentration alone does not Is a Concentrated Portfolio Required fully explain the strong forecasting ability of active share. for High Active Share? Many assume that high active share is synonymous with port- Is Historical Tracking Risk A Good Proxy folio concentration. Concentrating a portfolio is one method for Active Share? for creating high active share as it generally forces a manager Since active share is not widely available in institutional to make larger bets on individual securities. However, it is universes, many use historical tracking risk as a proxy for identifying high active-share managers. But while many high active-share managers have high realized tracking risk, Figure 6 so do many low active-share managers. As an example, some managers make large factor or industry bets while running Active Share a Better Alpha Indicator highly diversified portfolios. Therefore, a manager’s active Than Portfolio Concentration share may be low but the tracking risk can be quite high. In addition, many high active-share managers have low to Rank Correlation with Value Added, 2008 – 2010 0.5 moderate tracking risk. Diversified managers focused on 0.4 stock picking often exhibit this characteristic. Consistent 99% Confidence 0.3 with our other analyses, we ranked the three-year historical 0.2 tracking risk of all funds in our database as of year-end 2007 Percent 0.1 and compared the result with the rank of their alpha over 0 the ensuing three years ended December 31, 2010. -0.1 -0.2 As shown in Figure 7, historical tracking risk is generally -0.3 a poor predictor of future alpha potential. The relationship US US US US US Global EAFE Average Large- Large- Large- All Small was significant in only two of the eight categories analyzed. Cap Cap Cap Cap Cap In addition, tracking risk tends to do poorly in many of Core Growth Value the broader categories where active share has a very strong Active Share, Year-End 2007 relationship with alpha potential, like the global or US all- Number of Names, Year-End 2007 cap areas. So, high alpha is not necessarily associated with high tracking risk. Source: Wellington Management Peer Risk Database, based on holdings at the beginning of the period. As of December 31, 2010. FOR BROKER DEALER USE ONLY—NOT FOR USE WITH THE PUBLIC Wellington Management 5 Solutions
  • 6. Active Share: Predicting Alpha and Risk High active-share strategies also tend to be inherently Figure 7 volatile. As an example, Figure 8 shows the median worst one-year relative performance for the top 20% of active-share Historical Tracking Risk: managers in the different categories of our database over the A Poor Substitute for Active Share five years ended December 31, 2010. On average, over any given 12-month period, high active-share managers have Rank Correlation with Value Added, 2008 – 2010 0.4 experienced underperformance in excess of 10% relative 99% Confidence to their benchmark. For comparison, the average alpha draw- 0.3 down of all the managers over this period was about 6%. 0.2 Investing in high active-share strategies requires the ability 0.1 Percent to withstand periods of significant underperformance in 0 pursuit of superior long-term returns. -0.1 -0.2 Finally, there is no single “right” level of active share for all -0.3 managers. As we have discussed, active share varies among US US US US US Global EAFE Average different categories of managers. In the US large-cap space, Large- Large- Large- All Small Cap Cap Cap Cap Cap an active share of 60% is fairly common. In highly diversi- Core Growth Value fied areas, like small cap, active share is often close to 90% as Active Share, Year-End 2007 virtually every stock in the portfolio represents a significant bet versus the benchmark weight. What makes a good level of Realized Tracking Risk, 2005 – 2007 active share greatly depends on the peer investment universe and benchmark used. Importantly, as with any risk metric, Source: Wellington Management Peer Risk Database, based on holdings at the beginning of the period. As of December 31, 2010. active share should be used in combination with other mea- sures in order to gain more robust insights into portfolio risks. Limitations of Active Share As noted earlier, active share is not without limitations. Figure 8 Traditional style analysis and performance evaluation tools are much less relevant to high active-share managers, as Drawdowns: The Achilles Heel of High Active- stock-specific characteristics tend to dominate performance. Share Managers? Style characteristics, like growth, value, or market cap, also Worst One-Year Relative Performance, 2006 – 2010 change more frequently in high active-share strategies, 0 making them challenging to utilize within the nine-style- -2 box-evaluation framework that many have implemented. In -4 addition, the performance of high active-share strategies -6 Percent tends to rely much more on manager skill than on process. -8 This may require a more qualitative manager selection -10 approach than most are accustomed to. -12 Capacity for many of these approaches may also be con- -14 US US US US US Global EAFE Average strained, which may effectively rule out this type of approach Large- Large- Large- All Small for larger institutional investors. In addition, management Cap Cap Cap Cap Cap Core Growth Value fees are often relatively high given the active nature of these strategies, and many high active-share strategies have short Source: Wellington Management Peer Risk Database, based on holdings at the track records or are relatively small in terms of assets, limit- beginning of the period. As of December 31, 2010. ing the ability to research them through traditional channels. FOR BROKER DEALER USE ONLY—NOT FOR USE WITH THE PUBLIC Wellington Management 6 Solutions
  • 7. Active Share: Predicting Alpha and Risk Retain the Alpha, Curtail the Risk be in the worst one-year alpha drawdown. For all diversi- While we have seen that high active-share strategies on aver- fied strategies, the drawdown averaged around 7%. For the age have greater risk potential, the evidence demonstrated high active-share/concentrated strategies, the worst one-year in Figure 9 indicates high active-share strategies that are alpha drawdown averaged close to 12%. However, for high also reasonably diversified tend to retain their edge in add- active-share but diversified strategies, the average alpha ing value while significantly dampening alpha drawdowns. drawdown was around 8.5%. While marginally worse than Figure 10 shows the average annual alpha and worst one-year the aggregate category of diversified strategies, the incre- alpha drawdown for all funds in our peer universe segmented mental alpha over time of the diversified high active-share between high active-share strategies with more than 100 subset warrants consideration. names, high active-share strategies with less than 35 names, and all strategies with more than 100 names over the five Using Active Share to Structure years ended 2010, based on holdings as of December 31, 2005. Multi-Manager Portfolios For six years, we have been using active share as a key ele- Similar to earlier results, both categories of high active-share ment in running US, global, and non-US multi-manager strategies outperformed, with an edge to those owning portfolios. The original concept was to create a high-alpha, more than 100 stocks. However, the bigger difference may high-capacity, all-weather portfolio that minimized the big drawdowns that typically accompany strategies that aggressively pursue total return. However, the challenge for Figure 9 most multi-strategy portfolios is that they tend to be over- Diversified High Active-Share Approaches diversified. We refer to this as “deworsification,” or paying an active management fee for a closet index fund. Average Annualized Alpha, 2006 – 2010 0.8 Active share has been a key element in helping us accom- 0.6 plish our objectives and avoid the closet-indexing concerns. 0.4 As a firm, we offer over 100 different equity strategies. 0.2 Within our multi-manager portfolios, we focus on a select Percent 0 subset of these strategies that have very high active share; -0.2 the median active share of the strategies we use is in excess -0.4 of 90%. We ask all of the managers in our multi-manager -0.6 -0.8 portfolios to avoid risk-control positions, as we manage risk High AS and High AS and Names 100 through our approach to combining the managers. As a Names 100 Names 35 result, most of the strategies we use are highly volatile and Worst One-Year Relative Returns, 2006 – 2010 also have limited capacity, so they tend not to be those most -6 commonly used in traditional investment channels. -7 In combining managers, we require that each approach be -8 an independent alpha generator. While we use many of our Percent -9 internally developed risk-management systems to evaluate -10 this, one that we find very informative is the portfolio over- -11 lap matrix. As an example, we calculate the portfolio overlap between a strategy and every other approach in the portfolio. -12 High AS and High AS and Names 100 We generally will not include any strategy where there is a Names 100 Names 35 Source: Wellington Management Peer Risk Database, based on holdings at the beginning of the period. As of December 31, 2010. FOR BROKER DEALER USE ONLY—NOT FOR USE WITH THE PUBLIC Wellington Management 7 Solutions
  • 8. Active Share: Predicting Alpha and Risk high degree of overlap with any other strategy. Figure 10 is Conclusion the overlap matrix for the strategies included in our global Active share is a straightforward and effective tool for moni- portfolio at year-end 2010. toring risk, evaluating managers, and structuring portfolios. In almost all pairings, the overlap is less than 25%. In fact, Clearly, there are exceptions to every rule, as there are many across all pairings, the average overlap is approximately great managers who have low active share and many poor 7%, which means that on average only a couple of stocks managers who have high active share. In this context, no are held in common across the different pairings. In those single metric should ever be used in isolation as they all few pairings where the overlap is moderate, this tends to be have strengths and weaknesses. But the empirical evidence only a temporary phenomenon. While the overall portfolio is supportive of this tool as part of the mosaic of information owns, on average, more than 400 stocks, nearly 80% of these that should be considered. holdings are unique to an individual manager. Despite the diversified nature of the portfolio, the active share is still very high overall, as virtually every single position repre- sents a significant active bet for the underlying manager given the low overlap. By structuring portfolios in this way, our experience has been that it is possible to retain the alpha generation capability while limiting significant drawdowns, consistent with the academic research. Figure 10 Low Portfolio Overlap May Lead to Diversified Sources of Alpha Overlap of Holdings (% of Equity Assets) Select Global Global Global Global Global Growth Opportunistic Special Diversified Global All Cap Global Select Contrarian Value Horizons Value Equity Growth Opportunities Quality Equity Equity Select Global Value Global Growth Horizons Global Opportunistic Value Special Equity Global Diversified Growth Global All Cap Opportunities Global Select Quality Equity Global Contrarian Equity Overlap 77% of holdings are unique to one strategy 25% No stocks held by more than six of the managers 25 – 50% 50% Holdings derived from representative accounts in each style. Shaded cells represent the percent of assets of the column heading that are contained in the row heading. Source: Wellington Management, as of December 31, 2010. Wellington Management 8 Solutions
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  • 12. Wellington Management Company, llp | Boston | Chicago | Radnor, PA | San Francisco Wellington Global Investment Management Ltd | Hong Kong | Beijing Representative Office Wellington International Management Company Pte Ltd | Singapore | Sydney | Tokyo Wellington Management International Ltd | London | Frankfurt www.wellington.com About Wellington Management Tracing our roots to 1928, Wellington Management is one of the largest independent investment management firms in the world. We are a private firm whose sole business is investment management, and we serve as investment adviser for institutional clients in over 50 countries. Our most distinctive strength is our commitment to proprietary, independent research — the foundation upon which our investment approaches are built. Our commitment to investment excellence is evidenced by our significant presence and long-term track records in nearly all sectors of the liquid, global securities markets. 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