Active management

With fewer people investing in active strategies and more options to choose from, competition is extremely fierce.

Emulating traditional advisors, digital advisors are moving in the direction of planning offerings and advisor-client contact (albeit virtual).

Morningstar finds that active managers have left a lot to be desired.

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

Passive ETFs are often among the first to feel the pain of investors fleeing risky emerging markets for safer assets.

Investment in socially beneficial activities can be worthwhile. But it ignores the question of who decides what is beneficial.

The $180 billion asset manager is moving ahead with plans for actively-managed ETFs that disclose their holdings like mutual funds.

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

The rewards for the men — and they’re all men — are notable, especially given only a third of the top 15 managers on the list beat the S&P 500.

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