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Investors Toast A Renaissance For Active Stock Managers

TedTed
in Fund Discussions
FYI: Is active management poised to make a comeback?

Increasingly shunned by investors in favor of so-called passive strategies, active management—where the holdings of a portfolio are chosen by an individual, rather than being pegged to a benchmark, as with passive—seems to be having a shining moment, if not increased usage.

According to a survey by Natixis Global Asset Management released this week, a majority of institutional investors said they favored active management over passive in the current environment, with 73% saying the market environment would likely be favorable to the strategy. This matches other recent forecasts. Earlier this month, Candace Browning, the head of B.of A. Merrill Lynch Global Research, wrote that “2017 could be the year of the active investor.”
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Ted
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/investors-see-renaissance-for-active-stock-managers-2016-12-15/print

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  • jerry
    I don't know enough to disagree but it seems each year its a stock pickers market until it is not.
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