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 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.

While most institutional asset owners are currently using passive investments or have done so in the past, they remain split on whether active or passive management offers the best risk-return profile ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

Institutional investors face an enduring challenge – how to achieve outperformance while managing risk effectively in today’s environment. With equity markets more concentrated than ever, dominated by ...

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 ...