Alpha’s not easy to come by. Nor should it be. Once the exclusive purview of mutual funds, alpha is nowadays sought by exchange traded funds as well. Not too many, mind you. Of more than 2,200 ETFs, ...
Alpha is hard to come by. Correction: Positive alpha is rare, negative alpha is plentiful. Just look at the latest SPIVA, the S&P Index Versus Active Scorecard. Over the past decade, barely 11 percent ...
Zero in on a fund's active weight for answers. Back in April, Bloomberg columnist Jim Bianco decried the decline of active management, claiming many fund runners are being skunked by low-cost and ...