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Gain managed offshore exposure with exchange traded funds By Kirk Swart*  A hotly contested debate amongst investment professionals and retail investors is whether one should make use of an active portfolio manager to manage your investment portfolio or rather go it alone by investing in passively managed Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). Active portfolio managers argue that by investing via an ETF, one can never outperform the market index and that their skills and research will provide consistent market outperformance. Proponents of ETFs, on the other hand, argue that on average, active portfo...

The December 2020 addition of Tesla (TSLA) to the S&P 500 was a useful reminder of the significant differences between apparently similar indexes with respect to how they select stocks, weight them, and maintain their portfolios over time. A casual observer of markets could easily be forgiven for having assumed that Tesla was a component of all major U.S. stock indexes well before the end of last year given its mainstream ubiquity and mushrooming market capitalization. Plus, one of the major points of appeal of broad market indexes is, well, their breadth. They tend not to miss out on much. B...

Just 49% of the nearly 3,500 active funds included in our analysis survived and outperformed their average passive counterpart in 2020. This number isn't far off from what it was when we assessed these funds in mid-2020, reinforcing the view we shared then: There's little merit to the notion that active funds are more capable of navigating market volatility. We further analyze these findings in the year-end 2020 installment of the Morningstar Active/Passive Barometer, a semiannual report that measures the performance of U.S. active funds against passive peers in their respective Morningstar C...

Welcome to Morningstar.co.uk! You have been redirected here from Hemscott.com as we are merging our websites to provide you with a one-stop shop for all your investment research needs. Get Started: To search for a security, type the name or ticker in the search box at the top of the page and select from the dropdown results. Registered Hemscott users can log in to Morningstar using the same login details. Similarly, if you are a Hemscott Premium user, you now have a Morningstar Premium account which you can access using the same login details.

It's been difficult for actively managed U.S. and international-equity funds to beat their benchmarks. According to Morningstar's Active/Passive Barometer, only 48% of active U.S. stock funds survived and outperformed their average passive peer over the 12-month period ended June 2019, and only 23% of all active funds beat their passive benchmark over a 10-year period. As Morningstar director of global ETF research Ben Johnson notes in the report, foreign-stock and bond funds tend to have higher long-term success rates, while U.S. large-cap funds report the lowest success rates. To identify...