Decades ago, there was a fierce debate on the virtues of active versus passive mutual funds. The debate has now evolved into the realm of exchange-traded funds. Which are better: active or passive ...

When you're thinking about active vs. passive investing, it's important to realize that there are benefits to each. Active investing requires someone to actively manage a fund or account, while ...

Both sentence pairs make sense. Both describe the same facts. However, in each pair one sentence uses the active voice and one uses the passive voice. Which sentence would you use? That would depend ...

Historically, most exchange traded funds (ETFs) have been passive. But that’s starting to change, with more and more active ETFs coming to market. The growth in active ETFs is largely the result of ...

For many writers, feedback that your copy is "too passive" can be frustrating. The passive voice is, after all, grammatically correct. But there's a reason that public relations and communications ...

Active strategies—whether in mutual funds, ETF or other wrappers—continue to draw a healthy volume of fund flows, despite a majority of such vehicles failing to outperform their passive counterparts.

Vanguard’s index funds are the best value in investing. They are very cheap, well-constructed, and reliable. The next-best value might be Vanguard’s actively managed funds. They are cheap, generally ...

This handout is also available for download in PDF format. We refer to a sentence as being in the "active voice" when the subject is performing the action of the sentence (the verb). A sentence is in ...