No matter your investing style, the best Fidelity mutual funds offer solid active management at relatively low cost.

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

My colleague Amy Arnott recently wrote about the fallacy of the “stock-pickers” market. Time and again, active management’s proponents contend the time is ripe for portfolio managers to beat the ...

Actively managed funds continued to lag behind their passive counterparts in 2024, with less than half of them outperforming comparable index funds, according to Morningstar’s latest US Active/Passive ...

Elections, executive orders, tariffs, and geopolitical risks made for a roller-coaster ride during the 12 months through June 2025. Conventional wisdom says active managers should better manage those ...

Active and passive mutual funds represent two distinct approaches to investment management. Active mutual funds are managed by professional fund managers who actively select stocks, bonds, or other ...

ETFs have taken market share away from mutual funds. However, there are some advantages to mutual funds, especially in ...

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 ...

Is it time to declare “game over” in the contest between active and passive fund management? Funds are pouring into Vanguard Group’s passively-managed index funds, with total assets at the firm ...

A debt fund is an investment pool, such as a mutual fund or exchange-traded fund, in which core holdings are fixed income investments.