Whether you’re an active or passive investor, you can take advantage of a “dollar-cost” averaging technique. While it might not seem obvious, financial investing is mainly driven by the individual ...

Active Versus Passive Fund Flows How We Created the Active Versus Passive Barometer When Do Passive Strategies Outperform Active Strategies? When Does Active Management Outperform Passive Management?

The goal of passive investing is to replicate the success of the market through assets like index funds. Active investing attempts to outperform the market by selecting different investments than the ...

When investing in mutual funds, investors can choose from a wide range of categories. Although the funds can range from debt to equity, large-cap to small-cap and from gold to sectoral, two broad ...

The active versus passive divide is the key defining characteristic of different fund types and strategies. Picking the top funds for your portfolio is going to have an impact on how it performs over ...

Steven Nickolas is a writer and has 10+ years of experience working as a consultant to retail and institutional investors. Andy Smith is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP®), licensed realtor and ...

Active strategies—whether in mutual funds, ETF or other wrappers—continue to draw a healthy volume of fund flows, despite a majority of such vehicles failing to outperform their passive counterparts.

The rap on actively managed funds is pretty well-established after their most recent 10-year run. They suffered consistent outflows (save for 2021), they struggled to outperform their passive ...

When planning your financial future, you can use active investing and passive investing based on your specific financial goals, risk tolerance, and the level of engagement you want. When planning your ...