Active investing

Charles Ellis on how many active funds actually manage to beat the market

Jasmine Birtles on why passive investing is not more popular

Dan Goldie on whether investors buy and sell shares too often

Warren Buffett is a highly successful stock picker, so why aren't there lots more like him?

How the overall costs of active investing can accumulate and impact on returns

Why paying your fund manager more means you'll make less.

Many fund managers choose passive investing when it comes to their own money

Ken French on the difficulties of picking the perfect fund manager

Which fund managers have beaten the market in the last few years?

Rick Ferri on why the investment industry prefers the active approach

How hard is it to identify a fund manager who will regularly beat the market?

Active investing costs more. So whatever you win, you lose in extra fees

Burton Malkiel on how passive funds perform when compared to active funds

How charges can be one of the biggest causes, long term, of wealth destruction.

Taxpayers could save £660 million a year if government switched pensions to passive funds - with better performance, too.

How active investing costs more and consistently delivers less

The effect of fees on performance

Regular readers of this blog will know that we wouldn’t, under any circumstances, recommend anyone pays a professional stock-picker to buy and sell shares on their behalf.

However, if you really are determined to try to beat the market, how about hiring the services of the family pet?

There was a feeling of déjà vu when the FTSE 100 broke through the 6000 barrier this week. We’ve been there several times since the late ‘90s and, who knows, we may well pass it on the way up and down several more times yet.

How the UK Government is wasting £660 million a year on active investing