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Discover LudwigThe phrase "active funds" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in the context of finance and investment to refer to mutual funds or investment funds that are actively managed by portfolio managers.
Example: "Investors often debate the merits of active funds versus passive funds when considering their investment strategies."
Alternatives: "managed funds" or "actively managed funds".
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If active funds do better than lazy ones, shareholder activism will get a boost.
Managers of active funds have more discretion, he said, and some foreign stocks are relatively illiquid.
Active funds use a fund manager to pick a selection of shares, but are pricier.
Not in the near future: active funds still control the majority of assets.
So it will be even less obvious why active funds should be worth their high fees.
Vestar's three active funds – Vestar III, Vestar IV and Vestar V – aggregate $7 billion of investments.
In the US, active funds are up 24.8% over the year, while Fidelity's US index fund is up 31.2%.
On 24 June, Brexit result day, active funds fell 8%, but UK index funds were down just 6%.
Today many investors are pulling their money out of active funds and putting it into passive ones.
In January 2017 alone, investors withdrew $13.6 billion from active funds and invested $77 billion in passive ones.
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The Mid-Year 2012 S&P Indices versus Active Funds Scorecard (SPIVA) again shows indexes beating actively-managed funds in almost every asset class, style and fund category.
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