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Exchange-traded funds have generally underperformed competitive conventional mutual funds, apparently because the ETF structure and fund management process seems to discourage efforts to recapture transaction costs embedded in the benchmark index portfolio change process. An analysis of the problem produces a rather simple solution.
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