More emotional swings: Because you're watching the market closely, ups and downs can feel more intense.

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 ...

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 ...

[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 ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. The merits of active versus passive management are part of ...

While most institutional asset owners are currently using passive investments or have done so in the past, they remain split on whether active or passive management offers the best risk-return profile ...

It’s hard to beat the market. Data from Morningstar show that only 38% of stock pickers outperformed the market in 2024 — a figure only marginally higher than the 37% that did so in 2023. Meanwhile, S ...

Vanguard’s index funds are the best value in investing. They are very cheap, well-constructed, and reliable. The next-best value might be Vanguard’s actively managed funds. They are cheap, generally ...

Trading actively helps you learn how markets work, one expert argues It's hard to beat the market. Data from Morningstar show that only 38% of stock pickers outperformed the market in 2024 - a figure ...