Chances are, if you put a group of Bogleheads in a room with a bunch of fund managers, it’s likely nobody will completely agree on the best investing approach. If you casually toss the active vs.

A strong year for stocks left little room for active managers to carve out an edge in 2024, while active bond managers benefited from taking on credit risk. Of the 3,200 active funds included in our ...

US actively managed mutual funds and ETFs struggled to outperform their average passive peer in 2025. Just 38% of active strategies survived and beat their asset-weighted average passive composite, a ...

Historically, most exchange traded funds (ETFs) have been passive. But that’s starting to change, with more and more active ETFs coming to market. The growth in active ETFs is largely the result of ...

The goal of passive investing is to replicate the success of the market through assets like index funds. Active investing attempts to outperform the market by selecting different investments than the ...