Understanding the pros and cons of the two types of investing strategies can clarify what works for you. Hint: Sometimes a blend is best.

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 ...

Passive investment funds have become both free riders and absentee landlords, says Charles Hall Passive investment has become ...

Brooks Friederich is the principal director of Investment Solutions Strategy at Envestnet PMC. As a critical figure at one of the industry’s largest wealth management platforms for independent ...

Whether you’re an active or passive investor, you can take advantage of a “dollar-cost” averaging technique. While it might not seem obvious, financial investing is mainly driven by the individual ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. 2022 was a troublesome year for investors. Of the major ...

With numerous studies demonstrating that passive index investing consistently outperforms most active managers over the long term, one may question why investors would opt for an active manager. It ...

Over 60% of capital currently allocated to small cap stocks is invested in passive vehicles. The persistent outperformance is ...

Late last year, my colleague examined the aftermath of the 2021 meme-stock mania for exchange-traded funds with big bets in GameStop GME and found that many didn’t realize gains despite large ...

Passive fund assets grow 6.4 times in 6 years, highlighting rising adoption and benefits for investors and distributors.

It’s not a pretty picture: Most funds failed to survive and outperform over longer time frames. The report also breaks down the distribution of active funds’ excess returns versus index funds over the ...

Here is the macro picture of mutual fund folio growth for September 2025.