Active funds aim to outperform indexes but often underperform after fees. Passive funds aim to match indexes and have much lower fees. In 2023, passive funds had inflows of $244B; active funds ...

Brooks Friederich is the principal director of Investment Solutions Strategy at Envestnet PMC. As a critical figure at one of the industry’s largest wealth management platforms for independent ...

“Active” investments are hands-on vehicles steered by professional portfolio managers who charge a premium for their ...

[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 ...

The stampede to passive strategies has been relentless. But most core active fixed income strategies, unlike their equity counterparts, have tended to outperform their benchmarks. It could be time to ...

In recent years, passive investment has grown significantly in India. Because index funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) ...

Warren Buffett sometimes says things that seem... contradictory. For example, in the "You don't have to be a genius to be a great investor" category: "Success in investing doesn't correlate with IQ ...

India’s mutual fund industry has seen extraordinary growth. As of October 2025, the total assets under management (AUM) ...

Over the past few decades, countries have steadily embraced citizenship by investment (CBI) programs to attract foreign direct investment, and they continue to grow in popularity. However, the CBI ...

The ‘Oracle of Omaha‘ Warren Buffett and his business partner, the late veteran investor Charlie Munger, well known for their value investing rationale defended active investing during Berkshire ...

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, ...