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.

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 ...

If you’ve ever put cash into an exchange-traded fund (ETF), it is likely to have been a passive investment: a fund that tracks a particular stock market index up and down, rather than actively trying ...

The stampede to passive strategies has been relentless. But most core active fixed income strategies, unlike their equity counterparts, have tended to outperform their benchmarks. It could be time to ...

Under pressure from outflows, active managers are in a race to launch exchange-traded fund versions of strategies many already offer as traditional mutual funds. To give a sense of that, here’s a time ...

Reevaluating passive bond allocations – which have historically underperformed active strategies – may open the door to improved investment outcomes. Active management costs more – typically about 35 ...