Actively Managed Funds
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In most actively managed funds, the fund manager makes specific investments with the goal of outperforming a benchmark index. Managers do this by trying to identify investments that they believe will do better than the index. That’s their objective anyway. | ||
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The truth is, most of them aren’t very good at this on a sustained basis; actively managed funds rarely outperform their benchmark index over long periods of time.
According to the Standard & Poor’s Index Versus Active (SPIVA) quarterly scorecards, which rates index funds against actively managed funds, only a handful of actively managed mutual funds beat S&P’s various index benchmarks. A big reason is that actively managed funds are usually considerably more expensive than index funds; the expense ratio for an actively managed funds can be a full percentage point or more than its corresponding index fund. |
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