The largest percentage of consultants recommend plans with less than $ 1 billion in assets select a packaged active /
passive blend fund when choosing target - date strategies.
Not exact matches
For all other segments, the preferred target - date
fund structure is an active /
passive blend.
While
passive investments have performed well in recent years, active large -
blend funds outperformed their
passive counterparts nine out of 10 times from 2000 to 2009.
In the large - cap
blended funds analysis, the Morningstar researchers found that the 10 - year trailing returns (as of Dec. 31, 2015) were 7.2 % for
passive funds vs 5.9 % for active
funds.