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It's used to ask kids how nauseous they are. And it is, I swear, called the Baxter Retching Faces (or BaRF) scale.
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Show him the BaRF!
It's used to ask kids how nauseous they are. And it is, I swear, called the Baxter Retching Faces (or BaRF) scale.
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- July 5, 2011 at 8:18 AM
where did you find it?
- July 5, 2011 at 8:31 AM
- Sarah Glenn said...
I imagine there's no need to ask the kid if he's having a 10.
Great Scott! The word verification is 'hymen'. Really.
- July 5, 2011 at 8:34 AM
I'll admit that I thought you were making this up until I googled it. The things you see when you haven't got your gun...
- July 5, 2011 at 8:47 AM
That's awesome. I wonder if pediatricians actually use it.
BTW, it's nauseous, not nauseas.
- July 5, 2011 at 9:41 AM
- Grumpy, M.D. said...
You're correct. I fixed it.
- July 5, 2011 at 9:43 AM
- thatsit said...
Printing out to use at home....wait..how useless, both the spawn go from I'm fine to hurling so this wouldn't matter. :(
- July 5, 2011 at 9:51 AM
Folks in my family usually have a scale of two faces, 'I feel yucky' or 'Get me the bucket'.
- July 5, 2011 at 10:11 AM
BARF scale for kids on a BRAT diet
- July 5, 2011 at 10:20 AM
- Knot Telling said...
I agree with Sarah Glenn. Number 10 seems singularly useless.
Also, what age kids are we talking about? Can you see a 7 or 8 year old deciding between 6 and 8? Heck! I'm not sure I could make that distinction.
- July 5, 2011 at 10:37 AM
- Mack said...
..maybe they should get it filled by stupid moms instead !
- July 5, 2011 at 10:43 AM
If you print it out, cut out each face and thumb through the pile, you get a nifty "moving picture" to while away the time.
- July 5, 2011 at 10:48 AM
When I was a VERY young Army officer in the very LATE 1970's, I was involved with a research concept (as a participant only) which attempted to address the difficulty of females urinating in a field environment. (As the old whip-it-out and find a tree was remarkably useless for those of us with two X chromosomes.)
A urinal with a special adapter was built, with the goal of us being able to pee standing up like the boys.
It didn't work, so the name never made it out of the lab prototype stage...which is great, or someone would have been stuck replacing the name of the "FEMALE Urinary Collection Kit" wherever it was printed or displayed in its usual military acronym form....
Pattie, RN
- July 5, 2011 at 10:49 AM
- Grumpy, M.D. said...
Pattie- that device would give a new meaning to "Go FUCK yourself."
- July 5, 2011 at 10:53 AM
- ERP said...
Actually it's "nauseated". "Nauseous" means causing nausea or sickening. So, if a kid is nauseous, he or she is liable to be emitting some nasty vapours.
- July 5, 2011 at 12:11 PM
FYI: You have it backwards.
NAUSEOUS is an adjective meaning affected with nausea (to feel sick)
NAUSEATE is a verb meaning to affect with nausea (to sicken)
Grumpy was right. Just saying...
- July 5, 2011 at 1:02 PM
- Moose said...
Years ago I was working on a research project to develop some software that... well, nevermind. We needed a better way to restrict who could use various parts of the software, so one weekend one of the industrious programmers wrote up a module to do it. He called it, "Brian's Access Restriction Facility."
Management was not amused, saying that we could not distribute code which would require us to tell people to adjust their BARF settings.
- July 5, 2011 at 1:04 PM
- ERP said...
Well Smiley, I looked it up and it seems like we're both sort of right.
Seems like traditionally ( the way I learned it) , nauseated is the right word but due to us typically grammatically challenged Americans, the usage of "nauseous" has become so widespread as to be now also technically correct. I think it sounds dumb personally.
- July 5, 2011 at 1:08 PM
no need to ask the kid when he's experiencing a ten ;)
- July 5, 2011 at 2:55 PM
- Andrew_M_Garland said...
The barf scale should be foods (or almost foods), not faces.
I'll leave it up to the imagination, or someone with artistic ability.
But, here is a start
- July 5, 2011 at 3:26 PM
- Frantic Pharmacist said...
That's awful that you would have to point to #10 in mid-barf.
- July 5, 2011 at 5:11 PM
- Horace S. Patoot said...
This belongs next to the Bristol stool chart.
If nauseate means "to cause nausea", then nauseated means "having received nausia." I was strictly taught that "nauseous" only meant "causing nausea" but I just now learned better, after reading an essay at Motivated Grammar (google "motivated grammar nauseous" and pick the first link). I learned something.
- July 5, 2011 at 5:32 PM
- The Observer said...
Is it my imagination or does the puke in #10 have a little face drawn in it?
@Pattie, RN: There are people in the world still working on this--I found them accidentally during a google search.
- July 5, 2011 at 9:15 PM
I feel compelled to point you to http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/02/boyfriend-doesnt-have-ebola-probably.html , in case you haven't seen it. Also, Haha! I'm not wearing any pants!
- July 5, 2011 at 11:55 PM
- C said...
not having watched children vomit lately (lucky me), #10 looks as if the child ate a wash cloth and has partly digested it. sorry to be such an art critic. maybe this is more useful with kids who cannot speak for a reason other than mere youth....
- July 6, 2011 at 3:14 AM
- Treasure Huntress said...
Best pain scale ever! My favorite is #10: I am actively being mauled by a bear.
- July 6, 2011 at 3:19 AM
@Pattie, RN and The Observer: At least a half dozen companies (and probably more) have done it and are selling it. Some reusable plastic or silicon, other disposable cardboard. One brand is marketed/endorsed for women with vulvar cancer.
And I'm pretty sure I saw paper versions in travel magazines years ago so women didn't have to sit on questionable toilets.
The military shouldn't have given up.
- July 6, 2011 at 8:48 AM
#10 looks like the barf is barfing. That's how you know you're really sick!
- July 6, 2011 at 1:35 PM
Is that the scale one experiences when finding out how much device manufacturers pay spinal surgeons?
- July 6, 2011 at 1:55 PM
- kate sweeten said...
Do they really need an option for "10"? It seems to me that if they're yaking everywhere, you're probably going to know about it already :)
- July 8, 2011 at 1:13 PM
So if he hands the card back to you and it is covered in vomit, that's a 10, right?
- July 10, 2011 at 8:25 PM
- woolywoman said...
It works great. We use it where I work, and as a result give out more zofran and less basins.
- July 11, 2011 at 12:56 AM
- Mira said...
Oh man, for the last 15+ years I always get stuck at 8. I HATE that sweaty, icky feeling right before you yak. >_< Of course, for some odd reason I don't throw up, so I just stay feeling icky. Bleh.
- July 11, 2011 at 5:23 PM
My last name is Baxter. I'm a new nurse.
I already get teased fairly often for Meow-Mix commercials, the dog from Anchorman, and the medical supply company of the same name.
Now I have something new to add to my last-name repetoire!
- July 28, 2011 at 11:06 AM


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I have to disagree with you there. Bowyer's spotter told Bowyer the 24 was waiting for him. Gordon wasn't racing in a lane, he was trying to get Bowyer to go high so that he could turn into him. You can see it from the 15 camera. Bowyer tried to go as low as possible (He's turning left the whole time) because he thought it was his only hope to avoid the wreck. Total crap move on the 24 and he ruined Bowyer's shot at #2 in points, his lock on #3, and a good day by the #20. If Kyle or Kurt Busch would have done that (and there's a reason, of course), you would have seen the NASCAR apocalypse.
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Well a long time ago I got used to the fact that there were so MANY Leszczynskich out there that the possibility that any were directly related was infinitesimally small. Now to be sure a few second cousins have re-connected and it was good to get updates on the American branches. But in my 17 years as a genealogist — I had not received an inquiry on the line of Leszczynskich from my great-grandfather, Tomasz Leszczynski's first wife or their children.
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An estimated 15% to 30% of HIV infected people in the U.S. are also infected with HCV. Since the introduction of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for the treatment of HIV, HCV infection has emerged as a major cause of morbidity and mortality in HCV/HIV coinfected patients. One infection often accelerates the progression of the other, and effective management strategies for both infections need to be developed for HCV/HIV coinfected patients. This study will determine whether HIV ART followed by HCV therapy taken concurrently with ART results in better treatment outcomes compared to HCV therapy alone.
This study will last up to 102 weeks. Participants will be randomly assigned to one of two arms. Arm A participants will receive 24 to 30 weeks of ART consisting of tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) and lamivudine (3TC) and either efavirenz (EFV) or lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/r). If deemed eligible, Arm A participants will continue their ART regimen and begin a concurrent PEG/RBV regimen for up to 48 weeks. At Week 48, participants in Arm A will stop PEG/RBV and will be followed for an additional 24 weeks on ART alone.
Arm B participants will receive PEG/RBV alone for up to 48 weeks. At Week 48, participants in Arm B will be followed for an additional 48 weeks with no treatment.
There will be 20 study visits over 102 weeks for Arm A participants and 18 study visits over 96 weeks for Arm B participants. Blood collection and clinical assessment will occur at all visits, and urine collection will occur at selected visits. Participants will also be asked to complete adherence questionnaires. Participants in this study are encouraged to also enroll in ACTG A5128.
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|Actual Enrollment :
|2 participants
|Intervention Model:
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|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|An Open-Label, Randomized Study to Determine the Impact of Antiretroviral Treatment in HCV/HIV-Coinfected Subjects With High CD4+ Cell Count on the Efficacy of Hepatitis C Treatment With Pegylated Interferon Alfa-2A and Ribavirin
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|January 2007
- HCV viral load at least 2 log10 less than baseline or below the limit of detection by quantitative assay at 12 weeks after the start of HCV treatment (early virologic response)
- HIV and/or HCV treatment-limiting or Grade 4 or higher signs and symptoms and laboratory values
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- HCV genotype 1 infected
- CD4 count of 300 cells/mm3 or greater within 45 days prior to study entry
- ART-naive or off ART for at least 6 months
- Willing to accept randomly assigned study treatment
- Willing to use acceptable forms of contraception during the study and for 6 months after stopping all study medications
- Chronic liver disease consistent with chronic viral hepatitis as indicated by either liver biopsy within 2 years prior to study entry or a physician's report of hepatitis C infection for more than 6 months. Participants with cirrhosis or without a liver biopsy result within 2 years of study entry must have a serum alpha-fetoprotein of 100 ng/ml or less and a Child-Pugh score of 6 or higher within 45 days prior to study entry to be eligible for this study.
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- Current drug or alcohol abuse that, in the opinion of the investigator, may interfere with the study. Participants in methadone programs are not excluded, but may require methadone dose changes during the study.
- Need to start ART at the time of study entry
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- Prior or current evidence of immunologically mediated disease (e.g., inflammatory bowel disease, lupus erythematosus, autoimmune hemolytic anemia, scleroderma, severe psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis)
- Chronic pulmonary disease associated with functional limitation
- Severe cardiac disease within 24 weeks prior to study entry
- History of severe retinopathy due to diabetes, hypertension, cytomegalovirus, or macular degeneration
- History of major organ transplantation
- Severe illness, cancer, or other conditions that would interfere with the study
- Any systemic antineoplastic or immunomodulatory treatment (except epoetin alfa or granulocyte colony-stimulating factor [G-CSF]) or radiation within 24 weeks of study entry. Participants who anticipate the need to begin such treatment during the study are not eligible.
- History of hemoglobinopathy (e.g., thalassemia, sickle cell anemia)
- Require certain medications
- Evidence of decompensated liver disease, such as history or presence of ascites, jaundice, bleeding varices, or hepatic encephalopathy
- Prior opportunistic infection or lowest ever CD4 count less than 200 cells/mm3
- Has a pregnant partner
- Pregnancy or breastfeeding
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00100581
|United States, New York
|Columbia Univ., HIV Prevention and Treatment Medical Ctr.
|New York, New York, United States, 10032-3784
|United States, Texas
|Univ. of Texas Southwestern Med. Ctr., Amelia Court Continuity Clinic
|Dallas, Texas, United States, 75235-9173
|Study Chair:
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|University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University
|Study Chair:
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|Viral Hepatitis Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
|Responsible Party:
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10133 ( Registry Identifier: DAIDS ES Registry Number )
|First Posted:
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|May 18, 2012
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Posted by SchoolDays Newshound, on 18/04/2019.
The Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) has issued some guidelines in response to the large number of questions it receives from parents around whether it is ok to take photos at school communions, award ceremonies and sports events or whether GDPR prevents this. The kinds of questions being received include ""Do you need the consent of a child's guardian before you can take a photo of a child?", "Do you need consent for each separate school event?, Can schools ban parents from taking photos at school events?",
According to the DPC, these type of activities fall "under the so-called "household exemption" under the GDPR, which provides that the GDPR does not apply when a person processes personal data (for example, a photograph of someone) in the course of a purely personal or household activity, e.g. with no connection to a professional, business, official or commercial activity." In other words, taking a photo in public is generally fine; it's what you do with that photo that can potentially become a data protection issue.
The authority also says that GDPR does not strictly prohibit posting photos taken at school events on social media either. However, it goes on to say that "if a parent published a photo of their child online that also contained images of other children, and the parent of one of the other children was uncomfortable with this and asked the parent to take the photo down, common sense and indeed common courtesy would suggest that you should take the photo down.
On the issue of whether schools can impose an outright school ban on photos being taken, the DPC says "While it is at the discretion of schools to create their own policies on these matters for closed school events, it may be rather difficult to enforce an outright ban – in the name of data protection – on taking photos at, for example, the school's production of Grease the Musical which members of the public can also attend."
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where they are using the services of a professional photographer to take photographs at events or where a school might be publishing news letters with images of pupils. According to the DPC, "it's important to note that in this context, schools are in a very different position to parents/family/friends in that they cannot rely on the household exemption. They are acting as data controllers which brings them into the sphere of the GDPR and all of the rules that come with it, for example they must have a legal basis to process the personal data (e.g. take and store photos) and they must provide clear and concise information about what it is that they are doing with this personal data, how long they will be keeping it for, etc."
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If nothing else, active share pulls back the kimono on managers who charge high fees for piggybacking the index. "It gives you a very quick and dirty indication of how active a fund is, relative to the index," says Michael Herbst, director of active-funds research at Morningstar.
It also adds a new wrinkle to the passive-versus-active debate at a time when active managers have, for years, struggled to beat the market. "There is a tendency to paint all active shares with the same brush, but we need to make a distinction between funds that are truly active and funds that are truly not," says Cremers. "Funds with high active share actually do outperform their benchmarks." The 2009 study found that, between 1990 and 2003, funds with active share of at least 90% -- meaning that no more than 10% of their portfolios mimicked the benchmark -- outperformed by 1.13 percentage points after fees. Funds with active share below 60% consistently underperformed by 1.42 percentage points a year, after accounting for fees. The researchers have since independently updated the results, with findings consistent with the initial study.
The study also found that focused funds tend to have high active share, as do funds that invest in small- and mid-sized companies. The size of the fund itself is another factor -- those with more than $1 billion in assets tend to have a tougher time maintaining high active share. As the table shows, the 25 largest mutual funds have fairly middle-of-the-road active-share numbers.
For all its simplicity, active share still has its caveats and critics. "Unfortunately, there is no real evidence that active share is a predictor of returns," says Larry Swedroe, co-founder and director of research of BAM Advisor Services. He points to some statistical flaws in the study. For example, Cremers and Petajisto cite average excess returns rather than the median; some high-flying funds, Swedroe says, could easily skew the results.
Active share is no crystal ball, but that doesn't take away from its significance, says Terry Dennison, U.S. director of consulting for Mercer Investments. Dog-eared, marked-up, and splattered with coffee stains, the Yale paper has a permanent spot on his desk, where it's "within arm's reach all the time," says Dennison, who has incorporated active share into the firm's analysis of individual fund managers, as well as of entire portfolios. "High active share is no guarantee that a fund will outperform, but it is likely a necessary condition," he says. "You can't beat the index if you look exactly like it."
OF COURSE, SIMPLY BEING DIFFERENT from the index is not enough to beat it -- you need to be different in the right ways. Take Bruce Berkowitz, who runs the Fairholme Fund (ticker: FAIRX), which tops our list of large-company funds with the highest active share. In 2012, Berkowitz's go-anywhere-and-make-big-bets strategy beat 99% of his peers. Over the past three years, however, Fairholme has trailed 99% of its peers.
Fairholme is a highly focused fund; its top 10 holdings make up 86% of its assets. Concentrated funds tend to rank among the highest for active share, but a focused fund isn't necessarily an active fund. "You don't need 500 stocks to look like the S&P 500," explains Dennison. Likewise, seemingly diversified funds can have extremely high active share if they make bold bets or stray from their benchmarks. Fairholme has nearly 100% active share, and 75% of its portfolio is in financials. "The first question I'll ask if a manager touts high active share is, 'Is there a better benchmark you should be using?' " says Morningstar's Herbst.
Among the most active funds, the spread between prior-year winners and losers was 6.81 percentage points per year. Among the least active, the spread was just 1.69 points. Therein lies one of the reasons that managers hug the index. "You have little chance of outperforming, but you won't perform so poorly you'll get fired," says Mercer's Dennison. "What active share does is allow a manager with skill to add value, but with a bad manager it just makes the mistakes bigger."
You might think that the most active funds would come with higher fees, which would eat away at additional returns. That's what Petajisto initially expected, but found it wasn't so. "It turns out the fees are fairly flat," he says.
Traditionally, the industry has relied on tracking error -- a fund's returns relative to a benchmark -- for insight into whether an active manager is earning his fee. But, as Cremers and Petajisto observed, this doesn't tell the whole story, because tracking error reflects stock-picking, market-timing, and, in some cases, pure happenstance. Rather than look at the outcome, the duo instead examined input by comparing weighted fund holdings with benchmark holdings for 2,647 all-equity U.S. funds from 1980 to 2003.
Until 1998, funds weren't required to name a benchmark; now, their self-declared benchmarks are sometimes suspect. (When Barron'sexamined data from Cremers, we found dozens of funds using inappropriate benchmarks -- such as small-company funds comparing their returns with the S&P 500.) As a remedy, Cremers and Petajisto matched funds against 19 different indexes and assigned the index that produced the lowest active share. They found that while active share as a whole decreased over time, relative active share for individual funds stayed consistent.
Most big swings could be explained by changes in management. Fidelity Magellan (FMAGX), for example, had close to 90% active share in the early 1980s under Peter Lynch, but with changes in management and growth in assets, it sank to just 33% in 2000, under Bob Stansky's management. "The fund underperformed, lost assets, Stansky left [in late 2005], and new managers made it an active fund again," says Cremers. Today, Magellan's active share is about 70% versus the Russell 1000.
Even Cremers agrees that high active share isn't a catchall. "I would say, use active share within the fund-selection process, but as one of the many ingredients, including tracking error."
THE STUDY ALSO CONFIRMED what most experts already knew -- that small- and mid-cap funds are less likely to resemble their benchmarks. It's not just the sheer number of companies in small-cap indexes, says Bruce Herring, equity group chief investment officer at Fidelity, but the fact that small-cap indexes tend to be relatively flat, while large-cap indexes tend to be top-heavy. For this reason, he says, large-company managers who want to buy any of the biggest stocks in an index will see their active share tumble. At year-end 2012, Apple (AAPL) was almost 7% of the Russell 1000 Growth index, he notes. "Let's say a large growth manager wants to take a 300-basis-point [three percentage point] active position in Apple," he says. "That's 10% of your fund to get 300 basis points of active share."
Morningstar's director of research, John Rekenthaler, questions whether the Yale researchers' results might be skewed by the relative outperformance of small-cap funds -- which are among the highest-active-share funds -- during that period. Cremers says he and Petajisto took that into account by using benchmark-adjusted returns, as well as by adjusting performance for market, size, value, and momentum. And though the results are not yet published, they also have analyzed funds by stock-market capitalization and found active share to be consistently associated with future performance.
In any case, investors planning to incorporate active share into their own analysis should be careful about taking the number at face value at any given time, warns Jeff Tjornehoj, head of Lipper Americas Research. "It's one of those metrics that needs a lot of context around it," he says.
Although active share does appear to be pretty consistent, there are cases where an otherwise active manager may opt to be more passive as a defensive strategy, he adds. It's also important to look at both active-share and tracking volatility. A fund could have a low active share, but still add alpha, or excess returns, via short positions or sector timing. Conversely, a high-active-share fund could have the same sector exposure as an index and, in turn, behave a lot like that index.
Fidelity tracks active share on all of its funds, says Herring, but "there is no one great measure that captures all the things we think about," he says. And while he does agree that exceptional track records are generally associated with higher active share, funds with moderately low active share can still produce great results, he argues. Case in point: $43 billion Fidelity Growth Company (FDGRX), is up 10.6% a year over the past decade, better than 97% of its large-growth peers and 3.7 percentage points better than the S&P 500. Manager Steve Wymer was a finalist for Morningstar's 2012 manager of the year. Yet, the fund's active share typically hovers between 55% and 65%. "Theoretically, he's on the border [of closet indexer], but he generates incredible returns," says Herring. That's because alpha isn't just a reflection of active share but the kind of active share. Two funds could both have 60% active share, says Herring, but if one is taking an active position in speculative stocks and the other is overweighting blue-chips, the results will be very different.
Even with questions swirling about the methodology and implications of the original Yale study, it has made an impact. Fund companies are not only familiar with the concept, but many are keeping their own stats on active share and, in many cases, touting their high active share when talking with investors. "Managers are now coming forward with their active-share statistics," says Dennison. "They're not waiting for us to come to them."
STEPPING OUT FROM THE BENCHMARK has long been a part of the investing ethos at Janus, says Jonathan Coleman, co–chief investment officer of equities. "The Yale study crystallized it, put a name to it, and articulated it," he says, adding that the firm now monitors active share for all of its portfolios. Fund literature for Artisan Value (ARTLX) talks about the importance of being focused and active. At Fiduciary Management, managers have been talking with investors about active share for years. Managers of the Longleaf Partners fund (LLPFX), which has 97.6% active share, say they have long deviated from the benchmark. "This is, however, a byproduct of our consistent and successful investment approach over almost four decades, rather than an objective which we manage to," says Lee Harper, head of client portfolio management.
When Cremers and Petajisto released their draft in 2006, "We were on top of it pretty quickly," says Sean Kane, a managing director at Cardinal Investment Advisors, which advises $72 billion in client assets and includes active share in its fund analysis. "In a very quantitative world where folks are trying to develop some new sexy measure, this one stands out because it's so straightforward."
In this era of "cheap beta," or market exposure, through indexes and exchange-traded funds, investors are increasingly combining purely passive and purely active strategies, notes Sean Ealy, director of investment manager research at R.V. Kuhns & Associates.
With interest about active share bubbling up and so many questions about the methodology, Vanguard did its own study, which it published in 2012. It looked at the active share, tracking error, and excess return of 903 funds against the Russell benchmarks corresponding with each fund's Morningstar-style box. Vanguard divided that into a five-year evaluation period (2001 to 2005) in which it identified active share, and a six-year performance period in which it examined how those funds performed (2006 to 2011). They found that while the highest-active-share funds beat the lowest-active-share funds to the tune of about six percentage points a year from 2001 through 2005, the difference was negligible over the next six years. Closet indexers -- funds with low active share and low tracking error -- underperformed in both periods.
Cremers and Petajisto chalk up the discrepancy, in part, to timing. Had Vanguard tracked performance over the full 11 years, they say, high-active-share funds would have outperformed.
The studies were consistent in other areas, including the wide dispersion of returns for high-active-share funds. Among these, there were distinct winners and losers, while low-active-share funds generally hovered around their benchmarks. It's important to note that "not everyone wants managers with high active share," says Morningstar's Herbst, explaining that many investors simply seek active managers who can, for example, deliver market returns with less volatility. "Low active share doesn't mean a bad manager or closet indexer, but it does beg the question of whether a manager is charging high fees for index exposure."
Yet, assuming a manager has the talent, says Cremers, why not apply it to the entire portfolio, rather than just half of the fund? "Last time I looked, American Funds Growth Fund of America [AGTHX] had active share below 60%, but over that year, they still beat their benchmark," says Cremers. "You may say, 'So why worry?' What I say is, if you have skill, why not apply that skill to your whole portfolio? And if your fund is too large to do that, why not close your portfolio?"
Meanwhile, he asks, why should investors pay for funds that are "only in the game halfway?" No doubt, adjust expense ratios for the portion of a fund that is truly active, and fees can easily double.
"If you are a closet indexer charging high fees, you are doomed to fail. It's almost impossible to win," Swedroe concedes, adding that "it doesn't take a genius" to come to that conclusion. "But that doesn't mean the odds are good of winning just because you have high active share."
What's more, it's entirely possible to construct a portfolio of very active managers and end up with very low active share. (Many of the funds with low active share that are on this table use a multimanager approach.) "When you start to combine managers, you'll see active share can drop a lot," says Dennison, who says that, for this very reason, the firm now monitors active share across entire portfolios. Imagine a checkerboard, he says, with differently concentrated managers covering different areas. "Put them all together and if managers have independently made choices that cover the entire board," he says "you just bought the world's most expensive index fund."
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To get a snapshot of funds with high and low active share, Barron's asked Morningstar to match active diversified U.S. equity funds against the iShares exchange-traded fund most closely correlated with its Morningstar category. While there is the possibility of tracking error, it's a fitting comparison because the alternative to buying these active funds would likely be an ETF. We also cross-referenced this data with Cremers and Petajisto's results for each fund's self-declared and minimum benchmarks.
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"My contract sucks," Roberto Luongo told reporters, his anguish evident, his fall complete.
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VANCOUVER — It wasn't Roberto Luongo's contract last summer that undermined the Vancouver Canucks' attempt to trade him, but his singular focus on going to the Florida Panthers.
When the Toronto Maple Leafs, run back then by Brian Burke, were ready to negotiate a trade, Luongo reiterated his desire to play only in South Florida.
Wednesday, with the goaltender desperate to go somewhere he can start, the Maple Leafs reportedly rejected Canuck trade offers three times in the final hour before the National Hockey League dealing deadline.
At least new Toronto general manager Dave Nonis answered the phone.
It would make a delicious storyline if Nonis, who always felt Canuck general manager Mike Gillis stuck a shiv in him five years ago, exacted revenge by leaving his successor stuck with Luongo.
But it was likely the goalie's $64-million contract that scared the Maple Leafs as it certainly has other teams.
Luongo would probably like a do-over on last summer.
A lot of this is his fault.
But there's no sport in battering someone who's down, and Luongo was never lower than on Wednesday when he was whisked from the ice to management offices at Rogers Arena and informed the Canucks could find no taker for him.
In the emotional 12 months since he was deposed in goal by Cory Schneider, Luongo has felt many things. But unwanted was probably not one of them until Wednesday.
Luongo looked beaten.
"My contract sucks," the 34-year-old told reporters, his anguish evident, his fall complete. "That's what the problem is. Unfortunately, it's a big factor in trading me and it's probably why I'm still here.
"I'd scrap it if I could right now."
Luongo has nine seasons and more than $40-million left on his 12-year deal. He would give that up for a chance to be a starter again in a city of his choosing?
"I think he was very emotional," Gillis said. "These days are emotional for everybody. Where you have a day like this, where your whole life could be turned upside down ... I think there's an opportunity for things to be said that in the clear light of day might not be reflecting how you really feel.
"I think he said that in a highly emotional state. I think that as Roberto settles down and we get through decompressing ... we'll have a discussion about the future with him again."
It's hard to see how the market gets better for Luongo.
The National Hockey League economy – at least as it relates to players – shrinks after this season when the salary cap dives to $64.3 million from $70.2 million. Luongo's albatross of a contract isn't going to be any more appealing in the summer.
The consequences for the Canucks are more immediate. While trying to win a Stanley Cup this spring, they have $5.33 million of payroll invested in a guy sitting on the bench when that money could have significantly upgraded the team at other positions.
This is a lose-lose for player and team.
"At the time it was done, it was very favourable for this organization and it was very favourable for Roberto," Gillis said of the contract negotiated in 2009. "The top teams in the league that were competing for Stanley Cups did contracts like this for franchise players.
"Since that occurred, there have been a number of changes (in NHL dynamics). It's a fluid industry; things do change. There have been a lot of shifting sands and we're going to have to deal with it as we move down the road.
"I do feel obligated to trade Roberto and get him into a position where he's happy and competing the way he likes to and at the level he's accustomed to. The need of our team also plays a role and trying to balance them are a difficult thing."
If Luongo is serious about escaping his contract, he can withhold services, which would allow the Canucks to terminate the deal. But the team would first have to place him on waivers, meaning Luongo would have no input on where he plays and could be claimed for a fee of $125.
It was hard not to feel sorry for him on Wednesday. He has been humbled and embarrassed, a totem chopped to the ground.
"I think it's more, honestly, a hit on your pride that teams aren't willing to give up much," he said of his feelings. "I don't think disappointment is the right word. It's been an emotional ride, the last year. I think it's more the unknown that has gotten to me more than anything else. I'm human and sometimes it gets to you."
Luongo has never seemed more human than during the last year, when he has maintained dignity, his sense of humour and loyalty to Schneider and the Canucks when the goaltending situation could have become toxic enough to choke the entire team.
"I'm going to gather myself for the rest of the day," he said, "and make sure when I come to work tomorrow, I'm going to be 100 per cent dedicated to this team the rest of the year, no matter what that capacity is."
How would he write his saga?
"TBD – to be determined."
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The premier auditioned wind band at Virginia Tech. The ensemble rehearses three times weekly, presents at least three concerts on campus each semester, performs regularly across the state and region on tour and at music conferences. This ensemble made its first appearance at the Kennedy Center in 2011, and appeared at Carnegie Hall in April 2013 and April 2017. Ensemble participation is open to all students through audition each semester.
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