Active investing means that someone (hopefully someone who knows what they're doing) is in charge of managing the money and investments in a fund. When you buy shares in a mutual fund, for example, you're paying a fee because someone has hired theoretically smart analysts and portfolio managers who spend all day looking at stocks and bonds to make investments on your behalf.
The idea is that these managers and analysts are...active. They are using their own experience, forecasts, and research to decide which investments are best. The opposite of active investing is passive investing (duh), which is just...buying an index fund. Index funds don't have portfolio managers. What they do have are rebalancers. Might sound like Marvel villains, but they're really just finance folks who check every so often (usually quarterly) to make sure that the index still reflects what you think you bought in the first place.
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Finance: What is the Russell Index?4 Views
What is the Russell Index? Well it's an index like a stock
index abroad one the Russell is actually a series of
various indices that track the progress or lack thereof of stocks in a given
sector or basket like many indices the Russell index is actually owned and/or
managed by the footsie or f TSI based in London that's the financial time stock [sky scraper in London]
index F TSI footsie and the indices come in all kinds of flavors with an example [ice cream counter]
right here where you can see funds with catchy titles like the Russell 3000
growth and the Russell 1000 value and the Russell mid cap yeah the Russell
micro cap and the anemic Russell top 200 it's only 200 companies there and that
top 200 yeah no relation to top gear the video Yelp of cars alright well why do [Top Gear website with Nissan Leaf charging]
we need yet another set of indices well we already have the Vanguard series
featuring the famous ticker s py or S&P 500 we have the Wilshire 5000 which
isn't really 5000 and we have a bunch of others each of which give market
insights from slightly different lenses like that and that and yeah that well [microscope, magnifying glass]
the answer because investors are willing to pay for those insights and/or invest [money passing hands]
in those index funds and will likely keep doing so until there's no more [money piling up]
money to be made at which point everything gets renamed to being an out
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