Sentences with phrase «of an active management»

Otherwise, there's no point in taking on the additional risk — not to mention the added expense — of active management.

BlackRock has fired several prominent stockpicking fund managers and plans to switch their funds to quantitative investment strategies, in what chief executive Larry Fink called a «pivot» away from areas of active management that have fallen out of favour.

LONG - TERM OUTLOOK: «High levels of policy uncertainty and regional divergences will cause higher dispersion across and within asset classes, in our opinion, which increases the attractiveness of active management in both asset allocation and at the security - selection level.»

High levels of policy uncertainty and regional divergences will cause higher dispersion across and within asset classes, in our opinion, which increases the attractiveness of active management in both asset allocation and at the security - selection level.

The panel then considered the issue of active management within the ETF space, with Matt Hougan, president of ETF analytics at IndexUniverse, saying, «investors have proved themselves very fickle in the ETF space.»

Felix Salmon at Market Movers picked up on this post on the futility of active management in the face of plunging ETF expense ratios.

Another set of investors seems to have concluded that no amount of active management is worth paying for and have fled to passively managed ETFs.

«You're not getting the benefit of active management where we go out, meet the company's management team and know its history.

have each recently reported the outperformance of active management versus market - cap - weighted indices so far this year.

With record - low volatility and low stock correlations, some are proclaiming the return to favor of active management after years of suffering outflows to passively run index funds.

BofA Merrill Lynch and S&P (SPIVA) have each recently reported the outperformance of active management versus market - cap - weighted indices so far this year.

Some think this is the end of active management as we know it while others assume it's just a fad.

We at Oakmark are confident in the advantages of active management, and believe that if you are a middleman who can be replicated by a computer algorithm, in asset management or elsewhere, you're in trouble.

While smart beta strategies can provide important benefits in improving returns, reducing risk and / or enhancing returns, we are not advocating for smart beta to take the place of active management.

This represents a substantial shift from the old paradigm of active management, which sought to add returns through market timing and individual security selection.

At first blush, late 2017 may seem to be a curious time to be writing about the advantages of active management in fixed income.

One of our themes for 2017 is life or death of active management, in which we acknowledge the precarious situation currently facing active management.

Like all funds that have an element of active management, however, they come with active risk; in this case, the risk that the fund manager will pick the wrong contract.

Yet we remain as comfortable as ever that our style of active management will continue to produce competitive returns over the long run.

Instead, inactive refers to our low turnover approach to investing, which is a critical element of our active management strategy.

If the market were suffering from an inadequate amount of active management, the consequences would become evident in the performance of passive funds.

This highly flawed concept, widely taught in MBA and financial engineering programs, perceives volatility as an exogenous measurement of risk, ignoring its role as both a source of excess returns, and a direct influencer on risk itself... Systematic strategies are based on market volatility as a key decision metric for leverage... The majority of active management strategies rely on some form of volatility for excess returns and to make leverage decisions.

In February of this year, Druce Vertes of StreetEye wrote an exceptionally lucid and insightful piece on the topic of Active Management.

Commitment to Active Management Our belief in the value of active management has consistently guided our investment decisions and differentiates us from passive investors.

With a robo advisor executing a passively managed program, there is no chance of active management decision - making being affected by human emotional reaction to markets.

In particular, use of active management leads to a newborn baby being deprived of up to half of his or her expected blood volume.

Emergency: Irish Hospitals in Chaos by Marie O'Connor Chapter 6, Heart of Darkness and chapter 8 on the centralisiation of birth, The Industrial Revolution, which opens with a searing interview with a casualty of active management.

The justification of active management, the reduction of cesarean section rates, is self fulfilling prophecy.

They are to take orders, not make a fuss, and not disrupt the labor unit by making what the creator of active management called «the degrading scenes that occasionally result from the failure of a woman to fulfill her part of the contract» (O'Driscoll 1986).

«The final component of active management is taking care to diagnose labor only when progressive dilatation or effacement of the cervix is observed.

While the most important current explicit justification for the use of active management is the reduction in cesarean section rates, an analysis of the components of active management for their ability to lower cesarean section rates is quite revealing.

In order to take care of all these women, what was needed was what the creator of active management called «military efficiency with a human face» (O'Driscoll 1986).

«There have been no randomized trials of the total package of active management or of the use of strict diagnostic criteria alone, but trials of early amniotomy, early oxytocin, and these interventions combined do not suggest that these interventions are effective in reducing rates of cesarean sections or operative vaginal deliveries.

The appeal of active management among doctors is likely related to feelings of power and control, the imposition of order and conformity on the otherwise unpredictable birth process, and the ability to «do something».

Active management was devised «for the early recognition and correction of inefficient myometrial activity» (O'Herlihy 1993), but the inventors of active management had never attempted to measure myometrial activity!

Therefore, successful implementation of work / family policies depends on establishing a culture of active management and support, without which the MSPB report suggests «old ways of thinking will inhibit both employees and management from realizing the benefits of work and family programs.»

«We can't be complacent about invasive ant spread, even of species that have mostly fallen off the radar of active management around the world,» she says.

It does not include dollar cost averaging or any sort of active management.

The traditional measurement of the extent of active management employed by a mutual fund relies on methods comparing a fund's historical returns to those of its benchmark index.

High tracking error volatility indicates a high degree of active management.

Our belief in the value of active management has consistently guided our investment decisions and differentiates us from passive investors.

It's the Execution, Stupid would be one of a few articles that looks at the idea of «tracking error» or how well does an index fund actually track the index where it can be noted that in some cases, there can be a little bit of active management in the fund.

Even if you're a fan of active management, you could cut your fees by a third simply by investing in an actively managed fund for the stock component of your portfolio, buying a low - cost bond fund or an ETF for the fixed - income portion of your portfolio, and holding your cash in a high - interest bank account or money market fund.

Since the costs of active management typically exceed those of passive management, the average actively managed dollar will underperform the average passively managed dollar after accounting for costs (Sharpe 1991).

Commitment to Active Management Our belief in the value of active management has consistently guided our investment decisions and differentiates us from passive investors.

By this point Ferri's interest had been piqued by Burton Malkiel's classic 1973 book on the futility of active management, A Random Walk Down Wall Street.

Cadsby authored The Power of Index Funds, in which he railed against the evils of active management.

Advocates of active management admit that only a minority of mutual funds will outperform their benchmarks, but they argue there is still a significant probability of success.

The futility of active management as a whole is not an opinion, it's simple math.

That's the definition of active management.