Economic dislocations create opportunities. While many market watchers are seriously concerned about the microshifts in markets and stocks, others may see the opportunities that emerge when oil prices spike.
Active investing is drawing growing interest as investors look to spread their money beyond a handful of mega-cap technology stocks. Strategies that blend data-driven models with managers' judgment calls are gaining ground over purely passive approaches.
The active ETF market split along strategy lines in 2025, with discretionary equity funds gaining 3.3% market share while systematic equity funds lost 1.1%, according to Morningstar data shared by Ben Johnson, head of client solutions and asset management at the firm. The divergence shows not all active strategies performed equally, with the T.
It's no secret that foreign equities performed very well in 2025. The category benefitted from both existing trends outside the U.S. and tariff-related uncertainty, with U.S. investors flocking to ex-U.S. offerings.