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Passive Investing

  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    US equities provide rocket fuel for record ETF flows in November

    Virtually every other corner of the ETF investment universe was ground into dust by the onward march of Wall St

    A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    US investors have saved $250bn by investing in ETFs, says BofA

    The savings compared with mutual funds was mainly due to tax advantages rather than exchange traded funds’ lower fees

    Commuters arrive from Metro North Railroad trains in Grand Central Station in New York
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Special ReportFTfm: Active Management
    Investors weigh if meetings or selling out most influences green goals

    Active fund managers often claim the moral high ground, but investors are increasingly choosing passive rivals

  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Special ReportFTfm: Active Management
    Rise of tech giants skews active fund portfolios

    Top 10 stocks in the S&P 500 now comprise 37 per cent of index weighting

    An illustration of the logos of the Magnificent Seven tech companies and a hand using a mobile phone
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Special ReportFTfm: Active Management
    Active ETFs gain ground on more passive benchmark trackers

    Global assets have tripled since 2018 as many consider they show greater promise than more traditional mutual funds

  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    The ‘year of the stockpicker’ revisited

    You won’t believe how it turned out

  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
    US equities
    Wall Street’s AI-powered rally risks ‘correction’, Vanguard warns

    Asset manager’s chief economist Joe Davis says investors are overplaying the near-term potential of the technology

    artificial intelligence chips
  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    BlackRock launches active short-term money market ETF

    Manager claims to be first to offer strategy in a money market fund-regulated actively managed ETF in Europe

    The bull and bear statue outside Frankfurt Stock Exchange
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    Managers rush to file for ‘risk-averse’ crypto ETFs

    If approved, the products will allow investors to limit or protect against losses in return for surrendering some potential gains

    Golden Bitcoin digital currency
  • Friday, 29 November, 2024
    Fund management
    Strive Asset Management expands into anti-ESG direct indexing

    The company, co-founded by Vivek Ramaswamy, has agreements to offer the service via Charles Schwab and Fidelity

    Vivek Ramaswamy
  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    Flows jump after mutual fund-to-ETF conversions, BofA study shows

    Increasing numbers of US managers are making the move offering investors multiple advantages

    121 actively managed US funds with total assets of $125bn have switched structure in the past five years
  • Monday, 25 November, 2024
    European active fund flows buck trend to outpace passives

    October’s net sales for active equity and bond funds were higher than passive rivals for first time in 20 months

    A reflection of a bell inside the Euronext NV stock exchange in Paris, with EU stars in the foreground
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    Markets InsightCharley Ellis
    The ‘linked benefits’ of index investing

    Compounding reveals the true value of long-term investing and minimising costs

    Young boys, some dressed as cowboys, queuing for a matinee performance in Florida in 1950
  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    BlackRock and Amundi zero in on concentrated ‘mega-cap’ ETFs

    Launches go against the flow of money going into strategies intended to protect investors from overconcentration

    A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York
  • Monday, 18 November, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    Janus Henderson files to launch collateralised loan ETF in Europe

    US version of proposed AAA CLO Ucits ETF had $12.6bn in assets at end of September

    A trader watches his chart while working on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
  • Friday, 15 November, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    Trump victory tipped to break logjam of exotic US crypto ETF filings

    SEC has only allowed spot bitcoin and ether ETFs, while Europe has ETPs invested in about 30 cryptocurrencies

    A screen shows cryptocurrency market movements at a cryptocurrency exchange in Barcelona, Spain
  • Thursday, 14 November, 2024
    Adventurous InvestorDavid Stevenson
    ETFs are becoming an active choice for UK investors

    Globally, actively managed ETFs have captured a quarter of flows

    A trader at Pell Hunt stands in front of a bank of screens
  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    China CSI A500 index sparks fresh interest from global managers

    Neuberger Berman, BlackRock and Manulife have submitted applications for ‘enhanced’ CSI A500 index funds

    Women walk past a display showing the Shanghai stock market index outside a brokerage in Beijing
  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    ETF flows smash full year record

    The $1.4tn pumped into global ETFs in the first 10 months of the year surpasses the $1.33tn racked up in all of 2021

    Donald Trump
  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    Skin in the GameStuart Kirk
    Why it’s way easier to call US elections than pick stocks

    Even so, I’m yearning to have a go if only to amuse my readers

  • Tuesday, 5 November, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    Vanguard deposes BlackRock as provider of world’s second-largest ETF

    Inflows to VOO look set to smash records as observers predict it will soon overtake SPY to become the biggest

    Vanguard logo
  • Monday, 4 November, 2024
    Slaying some of the biggest passive investing bogeymen

    Goldman goes to battle

  • Monday, 4 November, 2024
    Asset allocation
    Time is a flat circle — active vs passive edition

    Nothing ever really changes

  • Friday, 1 November, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    Low-volatility ETFs lose favour as investors jump to buffered peers

    Despite poor returns in recent years, analysts say people could be missing out on their long-term investment potential

    A trader looks at a screen
  • Friday, 1 November, 2024
    Skin in the GameStuart Kirk
    Should you ever buy a stock index at a record high?

    It feels so wrong, but investors (me included) needn’t worry so much

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