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 ...

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 ...

Discover the benefits, strategies, and differences between active and passive investing to make informed decisions for your financial growth and investment plans.

Experts continue the debate about actively managed funds in light of a publication from the CFA Institute Research Foundation which asks, ‘Is active management worth it?’ The argument for whether ...

(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 ...

[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 ...

Most workplace plan sponsors still believe active management can outperform the market, according to new research by money manager BlackRock. Advisors are skeptical. In a survey of 459 plan sponsors ...

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 ...

When financial advisor's incorporate active management into portfolio strategy, interest rate volatility can present opportunity. Active management can give managers an opportunity to act nimbly and ...

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 ...

When William Sharpe wrote his paper "The Arithmetic of Active Management," he demonstrated that active investors must earn the same rate of return as passive investors in aggregate. The difference was ...

This certainly isn’t the first time we’ve seen people calling for the end of active management, only for those calls to be wrong. Yes, we have seen passive strategies gain in certain sectors of the ...