According to a team at Goldman Sachs, says an article in this month’s Bloomberg, the rise of passive investing has the effect of “rewarding corporate directors more equally than the…
Tag: Passive Investing
Active Investors Get a Chance to Shine
From the investor’s standpoint, a low level of unemployment isn’t necessarily good news, says a recent Bloomberg article. However, it can bode well for active versus passive investors. When more…
Active vs. Passive Results Linked to Market Cycles
Fees contribute heavily to the variance in performance among active and passive fund managers. A recent article in Investment News says that, according to Morningstar data, “higher fees have the…
Passive Investors Should Avoid these Three Mistakes
While data supports the widespread belief that passive (or index) and ETF investing offer consistently competitive returns, a recent article in Money magazine advises investors to avoid three common mistakes when…
The Passive Investing Tsunami in ETFs Continues
Investments have been shifting from actively managed funds to passively managed exchange-traded funds (ETFs) for a while now, but the Brexit vote and impending U.S. presidential election have fueled the…
Follow Buffett’s Lead and Focus on Value + Quality
Investors might be surprised to know that Warren Buffett, perhaps the greatest investor of all time, is a big fan of indexing. For instance, “He has already declared that 90…
Assets Flying out of Actively Managed Funds
Christine Benz and Russ Kinnel of Morningstar discuss the wave of assets moving out of actively managed funds and into passive index funds. According to Kinnel, of the Morningstar 500…