The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Active vs. passive, explained Active and passive investing are two key investing approaches. You'll see the two in the world of mutual funds, as an example. Actively managed mutual funds are ones where financial professionals study the universe of investments and decide which ones to buy and sell, and when to do so.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Rather, it's the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEMKT: SPY) -- an exchange-traded fund meant to merely mirror the performance of the stock market's primary benchmark index, the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC). To relatively new investors the suggestion seems outrageous. Most mutual fund managers can't even do it.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 24, 2022

And so there was a lot of need on the active mutual fund friends. And so my coverage list kind of converted over time to focus more on mutual funds, to focus on five to nine plans, college savings. RITHOLTZ: So these are stocks, bonds, ETFs, mutual funds? But then we were still feeling our way.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2022

But I covered derivatives at first, and then I cover mutual funds. I worked for a (inaudible) called Fund Action and did that for a little while, and then went — I met a guy named Duff Ferguson at AllianceBernstein. They’d be the biggest active mutual fund to shop times over. RITHOLTZ: It’s ….

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Pension Pulse

MAY 19, 2023

All this is all happening while people say they are downright miserable about the market. Even those who are active investors reflect sentiment at depressed levels. That’s fine, because the dichotomy in fact implies further market gain, says George Smith, portfolio strategist at LPL Research.

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