One Word, Two Meanings Everybody knows that there are active funds, and there are passive funds. Those are the terms used across the industry--by investment consultants, financial advisors, the media, ...

Chris Koltek of Portfolio Solutions Group says a thoughtful use of passive strategies requires active decisions about where, ...

Passive investing is often described as hands-off and objective. In practice, it’s anything but. Every index is a human ...

This handout is also available for download in PDF format. We refer to a sentence as being in the "active voice" when the subject is performing the action of the sentence (the verb). A sentence is in ...

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 ...

Conflict tends to be the norm in discussions about active and passive investing approaches, but it shouldn't be. While a March 2019 article in The Wall Street Journal reinforces the idea that "few ...

The stock market has averaged annual gains of around 10% over many decades. You can approach such returns via simple index funds. You might decide to engage in both active and passive investing. Both ...

Investing isn’t a one-size-fits-all endeavor. You can choose the types of investments you want to hold and how you’d like to manage your portfolio. One significant decision you’ll need to make is ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a managing director and senior wealth strategist for CIBC Private Wealth Management. The debate between active vs. passive ...

The coronavirus shakeup has produced a stock picker’s market. Therefore, now is the time to pursue superior returns from stock-picking and actively managed funds. Importantly, this new environment ...

As Gigabit Ethernet becomes a reality, installers must learn about the “active” side of testing. Although not often acknowledged, there is a great divide in the world of network testing. On one side ...

Chances are, if you put a group of Bogleheads in a room with a bunch of fund managers, it’s likely nobody will completely agree on the best investing approach. If you casually toss the active vs.