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 ...

Actively managed funds had a stellar year last year. The typical manager in both large and small cap funds outperformed, earning 2 percent and 3 percent more than their benchmarks, even after fees, ...

What’s better—active or passive management? Both keep capital markets orderly. Ever since index funds—also known as passive investments--have existed, there has been an endless debate about their ...

After an exceptional bull market that lasted more than a decade, volatility and higher interest rates set the stage for the return of active management and stock-picking investors were ready for the ...

[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 ...

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 ...

Passive mutual and exchange-traded funds will top their active counterparts by early next year, but the full picture of the investing marketplace displays much more subtlety, a new study said.

A year-long analysis of active mutual funds and ETFs reveals that just 33% outperformed their passive counterparts on an asset-weighted basis, down 14 percentage points year-over-year. US equity ...

Amid all the hoopla over the flow of assets into passive indexed strategies and out of more costly, actively managed mutual funds, the foundational appeal of active management is being overlooked, ...

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 ...

Do you want a portfolio manager to pick emerging markets stocks for you? High-yield bonds? Alternative investments? The massive move of assets from actively managed portfolios to passive funds that ...

(Bloomberg Opinion) --There's a line of argument in the financial press that suggests that active money management is dying, a victim of high fees and underperformance versus low-cost indexing that ...