Don’t rely on active share too much, says Arild Orgland – part 1 of 2

For many fund selectors, active share has become an important benchmark tool. However, Arild Orgland, managing partner of Industrifinans in Oslo, believes a focus on active share could easily fool fund selectors. In a video interview with EIE’s Tjibbe Hoekstra, he explains why he thinks so.

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The Norwegian financial regulator recently announced that it considers the DNB Norge fund, a supposedly actively managed fund invested in Norwegian large cap equities, a so-called closet-tracker. Orgland used the DNB Norge fund in his client portfolios until last year.

In part two of the interview, he gives his view on the controversy surrounding this fund.