In the debate over active versus passive investing, investors should measure performance over the long term, financial advisors were told at a Morningstar investment conference in Chicago. “Passive is a conscious choice not to outperform,” said Mark Finn, who runs the T. Rowe Price Value Fund. Active managers should have a strong commitment to fundamental analysis and focus on areas where opportunities are unearthed, he said, pointing to their investment in Microsoft that they owned for multiple decades. High correlation and low dispersion markets are difficult for active managers Value-based active managers should not be judged on a one-year basis,…
Passive Investing Is A Conscious Choice Not To Outperform
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.