Active management

Investors have been gravitating toward actively managed strategies, which have absorbed about 40% of industry inflows amid this year's market turbulence — the highest share ever.

With promises of potentially beating the market, actively managed ETFs can appear attractive to investors. But with higher fees and more potential volatility, are they worth it?

"This pace is unlike anything we have seen," said Matthew Bartolini, head of SPDR Americas research at State Street Global Advisors.

Cash is flooding into actively managed developing nation funds, which many investors suspect are undervalued.

Actively managed exchange-traded funds have accounted for nearly one-third of ETF flows so far this year, a record share.

Some funds lost more than 90% this year.

With $2.6 trillion in total assets, the firm is by far the biggest name yet that’s seeking to make such a move.

The long-term leaders carry fees more than twice the broader industry.

Home to more than $3 trillion, outperformance among the leaders comes with some caveats.

If Biden’s proposal is enacted, Nir Kaissar writes many investors will dump their funds to avoid paying a higher tax down the road.

The lineup of exclusively short-duration fixed-income products, taxable and municipal, still managed an overall gain.

The top 20 performers nearly doubled the gains of their peers over the period.

The 20 mutual funds in this ranking outpaced broader markets over the past year with an average gain of more than 68%.

Selective bets on undervalued stocks are paying off as unloved value and cyclical strategies fall into favor.

Over the past year, the 20 mutual funds in this ranking have an average gain of more than 100%. Their fees are also more than twice the broader industry.

ARKK, along with other funds in her lineup, is in the green after logging its longest stretch of losses since the COVID 19-spurred meltdown last year.

This group carried fees nearly three times the industry average.

Spooked by rising bond yields, traders punished the pricier parts of the equity market last week, including many of the fund's top holdings.

Funds at the top have notched triple digit returns in the last year.

The 20 funds in this ranking carried an average expense ratio of more than twice the broader industry.