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.
And the 30
percent of active fund managers who outperform one year, are unlikely to repeat that outperformance the next.
Rebalance annually, and you're likely to outperform 60 - 70
percent of active fund managers.
There's a few outliers in there, but generally you're seeing more than 60, 70, 80
percent of active funds trailing their benchmark.
Here is a breakdown of
the percent of active funds that failed to outperform their benchmark for the five - year period July 2004 - June 2009, as reported in the latest S&P Indices Versus Active Funds Scorecard.
Not exact matches
MEA lost 6.7
percent of its
active members in 2015, but the real problem is its failure to
fund obligations to staff pensions and post-retirement health care.
The same one
percent incremental return, however, might also be achieved, and with far higher reliability, by discarding high - fee
active funds in favor
of passive indices.
The Standard & Poor's Index vs.
Active (SPIVA) mid-2014 report says that more than 70
percent of actively managed
funds lost to their respective benchmarks over the previous five years.
As noted, about 90
percent of all
active equities
funds didn't beat their benchmarks in the year ended in June.
Twenty - six
percent of active managers are building multi-asset-class
funds.
Some $ 30 billion in assets (about 11
percent of active equity
funds) will be targeted, with $ 6 billion rebranded BlackRock Advantage
funds.
Forty - nine
percent of active U.S. stock
funds beat their composite passive benchmark in the 12 - month period ended June 30, 2017, whereas only 26 % had done so the year before.
If the additional costs
of active management run roughly two to three
percent annually, then the
active manager clearly faces a huge hurdle just to match the results
of a passive alternative such as an index
fund.
Overall, taxpayers pay for only 25
percent of the pension
fund's benefits, with investment income (69
percent) and pension contributions from
active judges (8
percent) paying for the rest, she said.
TransUnion researchers recently found some nine million credit -
active consumers would experience «payment shock» if the federal
funds rate rose 0.25
percent — the majority
of all credit -
active consumers, however, would see monthly payments increase a paltry $ 6.45.