But we will never run out of individual investors because someone needs to control the boards of directors and we will never run out
of active funds because there will always be optimists who think they can beat the market.
Not exact matches
:) Right now I'm saving about 80 - 90 %
of my
active income and put it toward ETF
funds and value growth stocks
because I'm seeking capital appreciation.
Because of nimble
active management, our Emerging Europe
Fund (EUROX) now has minimal exposure to Russia, thereby avoiding losses as significant as the Market Vectors Russia ETF (RSX).
(All that said, some
active funds do better than index
funds in bear markets — but this is typically
because they hold a slug
of cash to meet client redemptions, and this cash doesn't fall when the market does.
Investors should avoid
funds in this sector
because the cost
of portfolio management (
active or passive) is not justified.
Because, a) long - short mutual
funds are expensive, b) the nature
of shorting a stock means getting limited upside but infinite downside, and c)
active manager performance can wane over time as assets under management increase.
But they won't be able to sell all
of their shares to the passive
fund,
because the passive
fund will have to buy shares
of every company in the market — all 5,000, in proportion to the supply oustanding — many
of which the
active funds won't be holding.
Those remaining
active funds will be in a position to buy the shares,
because they will have received cash from selling some
of their own shares to the passive
fund when it went in to buy.
Counter-intuitively, the transition out
of active funds and into passive
funds makes the market more efficient in its relative pricing
of shares,
because it preferentially removes lower - skilled players from the
active segment
of the market, leaving a higher average level
of skill in the remaining pool
of market participants to set prices.
Historically, small caps are the area that
active management appears to have a slight edge over index
funds because of their research into companies.
And often, the
funds that have the highest amount
of charges
because they have the most
active management often don't show any better performance than a
fund with little charges / activity.
The discussion touches on the arrival
of Vanguard in the UK in 2009: «Vanguard believes that passive investing has far greater potential in the UK
because the cost
of active fund management is higher over here than it is in the US.»
Low - cost index
funds (or exchange traded
funds) give investors a big leg up against the vast majority
of actively managed
funds that charge more than 2 %
of assets annually
because most
of the
active funds fail to earn back the fees they charge.
But the growing popularity
of index
funds and ETFs has largely been the result
of the appalling record
of active management, and it has come despite the best efforts
of the financial industry, not
because of it.
You will not have to look back at prior semi-annual reports to wonder why the relatively concentrated
fund of forty stocks became the concentrated
fund of eighty stocks (well it's
active share
because there are not as many as Fidelity has in their similar
fund).
We also note here that such investing in a sense puts to rest the
active / passive debate,
because deciding whether and how to allocate between actively managed
funds and index exposures is
of course an inherently «
active» process.
Daniel: I'm a big fan
of index
funds because with
active management (1) it is hard to pick the winning
funds in advance (2) Long - term investors face long odds
of their
fund doing better than the index.
This is also where you should take time to learn about
active vs. passive management
of your ETF
fund because trading styles can affect your bottom line as well.
The main reason most investors opt for
active funds is
because, as with horse racing, we like the challenge
of trying to pick a winner and we get a thrill when our bet pays off.
Neil Woodford — BBC Hardtalk 30 minute interview This Stephen Sackur BBC interview with London Value Investor Conference speaker Neil Woodford covers a variety
of topics including the reasons for Neil's stunning success as a
fund manager, the skill sets that he thinks are important for managers and entrepreneurs, his thoughts on the Eurozone; plus Neil also comments on the lack
of value for money that the
fund management industry is providing to clients
because many
funds are «taking fees for
active management and returning passive yields».
This behavior could be related to market efficiency
because higher information levels characteristic
of large - cap stocks could drive less differentiation between
active funds» performance; i.e., they inherently may have less
active risk.
The difference in MER being slighter over time and often the performance
of a good mutual
fund will be superior
because of active management!!
Because they protect the confidentiality
of fund trading information, NextShares are broadly compatible with
active management in a way that ETFs are not.
Meanwhile,
active ETFs are essentially the same as actively traded
funds, except with all the benefits
of ETFs, including: greater tax efficiency (i.e. lower turnover), lower cost, and greater liquidity
because they are traded like stocks throughout the day.
I guess my point is that by comparing passive index investing vs.
active investing via mutual
funds, you can not really conclude passive index investing is superior to
active investing,
because you are only looking at the mutual
fund world
of active investing.
This is important
because when one participates in an
active mutual
fund, the statistical odds
of continued outperformance against the benchmark are not high.
Because — due to the high costs
of active management — the majority
of actively managed
funds fail to outperform their respective indexes.
Because most
active fund managers buy and sell investments so rapidly, a large percentage
of the gains end up being short - term capital gains.
VTSAX is not just for the lazy but also
because it will beat the vast majority
of active funds.
To begin with, there is no value added from
active management,
because all the
fund managers have only a handful
of bond issues to choose from.
TFR is not a fan
of active mutual
funds,
because of the sizable drag
of management fees on overall performance, their high portfolio turnover, and their requirement to hold significant cash to cover drawdowns creating another performance drag.
But he also said
active funds had been doing well in the four years prior
because the markets had been upbeat since the end
of the euro crisis.
More importantly,
because many actively managed
funds fail to beat index
funds, when individual investors put their money in
active funds they often get the double whammy
of poor performance from both the
fund and their own emotional investor behavior.
Overall, identifying outperforming
active funds is challenging,
because the majority
of funds delivered lower returns than their respective benchmarks in most categories, as shown in the SPIVA Australia Scorecard.
May attempts to side - step this particular pitfall by claiming that wrong facts about climate change are only held
because they were put there by the wrong people — conspiracies
of «an
active and well -
funded «denial lobby» `, in May's words.
I see problems with: * you have to be an
active promoter
of yourself to get articles read * the review process (mainly there is no ability to assess why rejected articles are rejected and the time wasting
because of pedantic comments) * project - based
funding and treating research like consulting (if I can tell you how much a project will cost, then by definition it is not research) * since academia seems to be drifting towards consulting, researchers start to become underpaid compared to peers in consulting * the focus on the number
of publications weighted by the rank
of the journal * status is based on if you publish in a high - rank journal, «selected» to be a lead author, and so on, and not whether you do good and creative research, good collaborator, good colleague to peers, etc..
I am a broker in MS (currently in
active but was
active for a number
of years) I do A LOT
of my transactional
funding in MS
because my clients were getting cease and desists when they are caught flipping without a license or wholesaling or however you want to couch it... Lots
of it done there for sure.