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Key Ideas
- Active management results tend to be cyclical; history shows that past out-of-favor periods were followed by strong reversals.
- Active management results vary with the direction and magnitude of market performance; and although passive management captures the upside movements of stocks, it also realizes all of the downside risk.
- Should we rethink active management as a strategy that ideally would self-adapt to changing market conditions?
According to Morningstar, actively managed U.S. equity funds experienced $98.4 billion of outflows while passive U.S. equity funds received $166.6 billion in 2014.
