EFA’s fund industry glossary contains explanations of common terms used in the fund industry and also within EFA’s website.

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Active risk

A type of risk that a fund creates as it attemps to beat the returns of the benchmark against which it is compared. In theory, to generate a higher return than the benchmark, the manager is required to take on more risk.