Sentences with phrase «advocates of active investing»

You may be aware there is a great debate these days between the advocates of active investing, who choose investments they believe will outperform the markets» benchmark indexes, and passive investors, who buy index funds and ETFs meant to match the benchmarks» returns.

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While this view has been disputed by advocates of passive investing, it has taken on new urgency as passive steamrolls over active in popularity.

To be sure, advocates of passive investing make a sound case that most active investors underperform the market after fees and therefore most people can do better by investing passively in index ETFs with low fees.