The long-running active-versus-passive debate has become even more heated than usual during the recent stock market turmoil. It’s a dispute with trillions of dollars at stake. The advent of passive ...

I have six observations detailed below that help guide my approach to the active vs. passive question. Active analysis hinges on reasonable forecasts of ex-ante alpha and active risk both in terms of ...

For the past five decades a radical idea has been eating away at the soul of the global asset management industry: What if you can’t beat the market? At least, not consistently. Then all the time, ...

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.

When the average person thinks of real estate investing, they might imagine a billionaire who develops massive commercial properties, or an HGTV fix-and-flipper who turns a profit by converting a ...

As a member of probably the last generation to grow up with a rotary dial phone in the house, I can still recall when there was clear distinction between phones and computers. Phones were utilitarian ...

In a prospecting article from May, we looked at the relative performance of active and passively-managed funds during the volatile months of March and April, a period that theoretically should have ...

The debate over active vs passive investing is as old as investing itself. Will an investor get better results actively picking stocks or is the buy and hold strategy more prudent? Should you invest ...