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

Normally, when we speak about active and passive investing, we are comparing two highly debated investment strategies. Active investing usually employs a portfolio or money manager that charges a fee ...

Active management is based on the belief that skilled managers can generate alpha through market insight and tactical ...

Active funds aim to outperform indexes but often underperform after fees. Passive funds aim to match indexes and have much lower fees. In 2023, passive funds had inflows of $244B; active funds ...

Brooks Friederich is the principal director of Investment Solutions Strategy at Envestnet PMC. As a critical figure at one of the industry’s largest wealth management platforms for independent ...

[Most investors, even many professionals, run from volatility or build walls to protect from it, seeing it as a major form of risk. Others get prepared and run to volatility with a specialized toolkit ...

Passive investing dominates global and Australian equity markets while active management has been falling out of favour. Our ...

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 ...

Large-cap US equities via low-cost ETFs led 2025 returns, beating active and small caps, with S&P 500 gains from profits.

Active fund managers have been on the defensive for years. As the biannual Morningstar Active/Passive Barometer regularly demonstrates, active funds overall don’t have a strong track record against ...

Learn what active risk is and how to calculate it. Understand the methods to evaluate active risk in portfolios and explore examples of funds outperforming benchmarks.

Volatility is seen as an opportunity for alpha generation, not just a risk, through sophisticated, mathematics-based investment methodologies. Intech's approach bridges active and passive investing, ...