Unless the money is taken out of some other necessary research activity, or
out of the active fund manager's wages or profits, the research and due - diligence necessary to buy the shares will not get done.
Despite the very long - term trend showing that individual investors are moving assets to passively managed investment vehicles (such as index funds), the vast majority of individual assets are still in the
hands of active fund managers.
Yes, if you observe many of the multi-cap funds have now higher allocation to Large cap stocks, its the
duty of the active Fund manager to implement an investment strategy which benefits the fund investors as per current market conditions.
Overall, about 57 %
of active fund managers investing in pan-European equities underperformed their benchmark over the one - year horizon ending June 30, 2016 (see Exhibit 1).
The SPIVA
Scorecard of active fund managers produced by S&P Dow Jones Indices shows long - term underperformance of active managers, but Steve Deschenes, with Capital Group, takes issue with the active versus passive debate.
Earlier this year, our team put Dunn's Law to the test to determine whether stylistic differences between active and passive managers could help explain the
variation of active fund managers» success rates from Morningstar's Active / Passive Barometer.
In 2017, for example, only 43
percent of active fund managers outperformed their passively managed peers, and that was a major improvement from the 26 percent that accomplished the feat in 2016.
Rebalance annually, and you're likely to outperform 60 - 70 percent
of active fund managers.
Other research that shows index investing outperforms some 60 % -70 %
of active fund managers is based on buy - and - hold investing.