Active management will become more popular next year, as well as custom strategies for those investors who want to have more control over where their money goes, contends an article…
Tag: Active Investing
What is Your Investment Edge?
From time to time we have guest posts on Validea’s Guru Investor blog from others who we admire, respect and are providing valuable insights to investors. Today’s post is from…
Billy Beane Thinks Moneyball Can Crack Active Management Game
Active managers, long-suffering from lackluster performance, have taken a page from baseball talent scout Billy Beane’s playbook by using data analytics to boost performance. This according to a recent article…
Peter Lynch: You Can’t Beat the Market if You Only Index
Barron’s recently profiled legendary investor Peter Lynch with a lengthy retrospective on his humble beginnings, his successful career at Fidelity and highlights from a December interview. Here are some key…
The Death of the Traditional Passive Fund
Fidelity’s annual global institutional investor fund survey, released in March, showed that institutional investors plan to turn more toward active strategies and smart beta products in the coming years. This…
Active Bond Managers are Beating the Market
When it comes to bond funds, says a recent article in The Wall Street Journal, “bargain shopping may not be the best idea.” Higher-priced portfolios assembled by active money managers,…
Combining Active and Passive Investing Can "Smooth the Ride"
A “partnership” of both active and passive investing can help smooth out some rough patches in portfolio performance, according to a recent Vanguard article. “The addition of a reliable investment…
Alternative Data Could Be Last Hope for Active Managers
Stock pickers believe that alternative data—including digital footprints such as social media information, satellite images, etc.—can lead to outperformance against indexes, but the complexities associated with using such data can…
Jason Zweig Says Active Managers Also Underperform in Down Markets
Although the data continues to show that stock pickers have underperformed the market, writes Jason Zweig in a recent Wall Street Journal article, “active managers insist that they will make…
Ned Davis Sees a Passive Investing Bubble Expanding
As they relate to U.S. economic growth, the lofty expectations concerning the Trump administration seem to be cooling off, says a recent article in Barron’s. Since March 1st, the article…