Now, when advisors are putting together portfolios, it’s not necessarily assumed that ETFs will be managed in a low-cost or passive manner. This approach allows advisors to have more flexibility in ...

Normally, when we speak about active and passive investing, we are comparing two highly debated investment strategies.

Advisors adhering to the fiduciary standard typically gravitate toward index funds or other passive strategies such as those developed by Dimensional Fund Advisors, Vanguard and others. There's a ...

Investors looking to add some oomph to their portfolios would do well to read Morningstar’s latest report on active and ...

Despite the headlines proclaiming its demise, active investment management is not going extinct - it’s evolving. Read more ...

And the dispute rages on. The two sides of the active vs. passive portfolio-management feud aren’t exactly the Hatfields and McCoys, but they do seem unwilling to give an inch when discussing ...

it would take just one outside bid for a single member of this set of securities to render the index once again active. Again, passive management involves simply maintaining a proportional ...

Active investing strategies require expensive portfolio management teams that try to beat stock market returns and take advantage of short-term price fluctuations. Of note, passive strategies that ...