In August 1979, Businessweek famously proclaimed 'The Death of Equities'—right before one of the longest and largest bull markets of all time began. It was a perfect example of the investment truism ...

Over the same period, passive ETF launches grew by just 15%. Assets tell a similar story: active ETF assets climbed from $122 ...

If you visit with a financial planner or a fiduciary, they’re likely to ask if you’re interested in active management. What is active management? At its simplest level, it means someone is tracking ...

Well, I guess it has been decided. Active investment management is dead. Passive management wins. Hedge fund and mutual fund managers who engage in such a horrific means of wealth destruction should ...

[The “active” versus “passive” investment debate has raged for decades fueled by performance comparison reports like SPIVA, Alpha Architects, and many others chronicling how a large cross-section of ...

(This week, we're looking at the differences between indexing and passive management. To start, we'll first discuss the differences between active management and passive management to get a better ...

Amid all the hoopla over the flow of assets into passive indexed strategies and out of more costly, actively managed mutual funds, the foundational appeal of active management is being overlooked, ...

For investors looking to access the rapidly growing digital assets ecosystem, there are now a number of options. While both the number of issuers addressing this market and their offerings should ...

Just how actively managed is your actively managed mutual fund? And, more importantly, what’s the real pay-off for all that activity? These long-standing questions took center stage with the recent ...

It turns out there are worse strategies for active managers to pursue than U.S. large-cap stocks. Over the past ten years, asset managers focused on large American companies have actually done a ...

Fees collected by active managers fell last year as managers struggled to beat market returns. On average, active management fees declined 4 percent in 2021, according to the latest analysis by ...

Sources of Pain It's common knowledge that actively run stock funds tend to lag index funds. But why? One possibility is that active managers collectively make poor investment choices. Another is that ...