Sentences with phrase «made by active managers»

One of the promises made by active managers is that they can move to cash before the markets tank and then get reinvested before they recover.

I never meant to make you cry And though I know I shouldn't call It just reminds us of the cost Of everything we've lost Bad timing, that's all — Bad Timing, Blue Rodeo One of the promises made by active managers is that they can move to cash before the markets tank and then -LSB-...]

Not exact matches

Bradley believes that active managers can add value by making tactical shifts in asset allocation — though not too often, and always within a fairly narrow range.

Obviously, it will have to be 20 per cent (ignoring fees) and so there is no way that a comparison between the average return earned by the active managers with the index return will make investors aware that markets have become efficient.1 In other words, the warning light to signal that markets have become inefficient will never light up and so there is no reason to expect that investors will come to a realisation that the flow of investment funds to index investing has gone too far — meaning that the envisaged constraint on the flow of funds to index investing is unlikely to eventuate.»

The Wall Street Journal recently reported that, according to analysis by Credit Suisse, the correlation among S&P 500 sectors had fallen close to its lowest level ever, and that this was good for active equity managers, «who find it easier to make money betting on specific companies or trends when stocks aren't all moving together.»

Now, here's the logical trick: since the sum - total of active and passive investments matches the market, the proportion allocated to any market segment by active managers must, in aggregate, equal the allocation made by passive investors.

Most active fund managers try to outperform their benchmark indexes by picking stocks and making tactical plays, and most can not do this successfully after accounting for their fees and transaction costs.

Making the Case for Passive Investing's Triumph By almost any measure — performance, inflows and certainly bang for the buck — passive funds for years have trounced active managers.

About 30 analysts are responsible for their own slice of the portfolio, overseen by three managers who oversee the big picture and make sure the portfolio is constrained in terms of the level of active risk.