Morningstar

Fund managers may be better equipped to weather the market storm than their passive peers because of their ability to quickly cut risk.

While the sustainable industry accounts for less than 1% of the $20.7 trillion held in U.S. mutual funds and ETFs, the space is growing fast.

The percentage of women managers fell even among passive funds, a booming area of the industry that was a hot-spot for female talent.

Broad-basket commodity sector funds, as well as those long on oil, natural gas and precious metals, accounted for more than half of the laggards.

The 20 top-performers are largely comprised of low-cost tech offerings.

Although roughly 40% of the actively managed industry beat their indexes, the worst-performers eked out an average gain of just 1.07%.

Many firms are modifying their ETFs’ existing mandates to be ESG-oriented without forcing investors to sell — and thus avoiding a tax bite.

They’re more expensive than their passive peers. But did they beat their benchmarks?

Whether it’s AI managing regulations or nextgen tools acting as data scientists, executives say tech will change how asset managers work.

Steady gains made in equity markets last year were "clearly a tailwind,” an expert says.