Q: I’m reading that a smart investor only uses “passive” funds — what does that mean? A: A short answer is that “passive” investment funds use computers and algorithms to pick their contents. They ...

A strong year for stocks left little room for active managers to carve out an edge in 2024, while active bond managers benefited from taking on credit risk. Of the 3,200 active funds included in our ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Host of the Retire Sooner podcast and CFP™ practitioner. Is one of the most popular investing strategies quietly distorting the ...

Brutal market performance in 2022 reignited the narrative that active funds can better navigate market turmoil than passive peers. Despite an uptick in success rates by U.S. stock-pickers, the latest ...

With passive funds outperforming their counterparts and delivering exceptional returns in 2024, experts recommend that one can look at creating a portfolio with a mix of active and passive funds in ...

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 ...

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.

Institutional investors today face a familiar dilemma, now amplified by current market realities. Traditional active managers can deliver bursts of alpha, but potentially at the cost of style drift, ...