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Passive Investing

  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
    Personal Finance
    Ten things to tick off your financial to-do list in 2025

    From money-saving work perks to investments and tax planning, resolve to get your finances in shape this new year

    Illustration of a piggy bank and a pencil on an open spiral notebook with a checklist drawn on the page, set on a plain blue background
  • Tuesday, 31 December, 2024
    Japan active funds, like global peers, underperform passive rivals

    Only 20% of actively managed equities and fixed income vehicles outperformed over 15 years

    People watching the stock quotation board at the Tokyo Stock Exchange
  • Monday, 30 December, 2024
    Investing in funds
    Stockpicking funds suffer record $450bn of outflows

    Shift into passive strategies and ETFs has accelerated as performance of pricier mutual funds lags behind benchmarks

    A large US flag hangs on the facade of the New York Stock Exchange building.
  • Friday, 27 December, 2024
    US financial regulation
    Vanguard strikes deal with FDIC over huge holdings in US banks

    $10tn money manager agrees to curbs on influencing decisions of mid-sized and regional lenders

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  • Thursday, 26 December, 2024
    ESG investing
    ESG funds found to have $1.4bn exposure to Xinjiang labour camps

    Ignites Asia analysis has tracked investments in companies such as CATL, the EV battery maker accused of Xinjiang links

  • Tuesday, 24 December, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    MicroStrategy mania exposes rare faultline in ETF industry

    Sharp deviations have appeared in expected returns of two leveraged funds amid surge in bets

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  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    The Big Read
    The relentless advance of American asset managers in Europe

    Powerful US groups are shaking up the market and forcing their transatlantic rivals to partner and scale up — or exit the sector

    Montage of the City of London skyline with logos in the background of Goldmans Sachs, Vanguard, BlackRock and JPMorgan Chase
  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    You beta watch out, you beta not cry

    Active mutual funds are dying, and I’m telling you why

  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Vanguard Group Inc
    Vanguard overhauls fees for UK investors

    £4 a month charge will make platform more expensive than rivals for those with less than £10,000

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  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    Global ETF assets soar to $15tn as shift from mutual funds gathers pace

    US leads global inflows as investors pour money into Wall Street equities

    A trader works on the trading floor at the New York Stock Exchange
  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    Lessons to learn from US big tech performance

    Any notion that the Magnificent Seven had unstoppable momentum received a reality check earlier this year

    A worker uses a microscope to inspect a chip at Annapurna Labs
  • 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

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  • 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
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