Now, how active do you have to be as a stock picker? Because I don't know, I think of myself, my days are crazy. I like the fact that I am at least invested somewhere as a passive investor in the S&P.

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 ...

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

One Word, Two Meanings Everybody knows that there are active funds, and there are passive funds. Those are the terms used across the industry--by investment consultants, financial advisors, the media, ...

I have six observations detailed below that help guide my approach to the active vs. passive question. Active analysis hinges on reasonable forecasts of ex-ante alpha and active risk both in terms of ...

Active investing may sound like a better approach than passive investing. After all, we’re prone to see active things as more powerful, dynamic and capable. Active and passive investing each have some ...

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 ...

In a prospecting article from May, we looked at the relative performance of active and passively-managed funds during the volatile months of March and April, a period that theoretically should have ...

There are a lot of labels for this common dynamic — active vs. passive, over-responsible vs. under-responsible, martyr vs. victim — but the pattern is one where one person is always initiating — ...

For the past five decades a radical idea has been eating away at the soul of the global asset management industry: What if you can’t beat the market? At least, not consistently. Then all the time, ...

Chances are, if you put a group of Bogleheads in a room with a bunch of fund managers, it’s likely nobody will completely agree on the best investing approach. If you casually toss the active vs.