Active Management Exodus Slows for Summer (Sort Of)

401k, retirement, passive management

Are active managers getting washed away?

Passive management’s brutal beating of its active counterpart is apparently slowing for the summer.

Mutual fund and exchange-traded fund (ETF) asset flows for June show investors putting $9.3 billion into equity passive funds, down from $13.1 billion in May 2017.

On the active front, investors pulled $14.6 billion out of equity funds, compared with $16.2 billion in the previous month, according to research bigwig Morningstar.

Highlights (or lowlights, depending on point of view) from the Chicago-based company’s report include:

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