Q: I’m reading that a smart investor only uses “passive” funds — what does that mean? A: A short answer is that “passive” investment funds use computers and algorithms to pick their contents. They ...

[Most investors, even many professionals, run from volatility or build walls to protect from it, seeing it as a major form of risk. Others get prepared and run to volatility with a specialized toolkit ...

Active investing may sound like a better approach than passive investing. After all, we’re prone to see active things as more powerful, dynamic and capable. Active and passive investing each have some ...

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 ...

Dominic McCormick explains why going passive is not a low risk portfolio approach. Outside of cash and term deposits, passive funds – either those replicating market indices or those providing certain ...

Historically, most exchange traded funds (ETFs) have been passive. But that’s starting to change, with more and more active ETFs coming to market. The growth in active ETFs is largely the result of ...

With active ETFs exploding in complexity and capturing almost half of all ETF inflows in recent years, the traditional "passive vs. active" debate has evolved into a more nuanced discussion about when ...

The belief that passive investing is risk-free is a misconception, in our view at AllianceBernstein. Whereas passive portfolios may address concerns about relative risk, they won’t help investors ...

ETFs have been closely identified with passive funds that track the performance of indexes. But as exchange-traded funds have grown in popularity — there are now more than 1,000 U.S. equity funds ...

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Volatility is seen as an opportunity for alpha generation, not just a risk, through sophisticated, mathematics-based investment methodologies. Intech's approach bridges active and passive investing, ...