Disadvantages of Passive Funds Management

Limited benefits. A fund that is managed passively can’t expect profits superior to that of the market; the more they can aspire to, is to have a similar return as that of the index that is being issued as objective with a portfolio managed actively, the investor can identify a fund that is capable of surpassing the returns of the years, the funds that are managed passively, in average have overcome in profitability most of those funds that are managed actively). The profitability rate fluctuate from one year to another; however, at the end of the nineties, the index funds overcame by an ample margin those funds that were managed actively when the money in mass flowed towards the first by the means of investors that were interested only in buying and retaining the averages of the market.

These investors injected near to 32% of the new money into index funds during the period between July of 1998 and July of 1999.

The managers, having to buy securities comprehended in the index, contributed to raise the quotations. However during the first nine months of 1999, 50% of the diversified funds that were managed actively exceeded the profitability of the S&P 500, ciphered in a 15%, and this bettering of return promised to be substantial, due that the vanguard 500 fund obtained a profitability of 16% by the 9 of December, which was surpassed by a growing fund (156%), an internet fund (178%) and by a world technology fund (176%).

The investors, moved by greed and fear to be left behind, go for the hunt of the sectors with greater profits, when what they should have done is to buy participations and keep them, politic that usually has had better results than that of going from sector to sector to obtain a greater return.

Sternness of the portfolio. A fund that is managed actively can buy or sell determined securities or can go after cash money in times of volatility of the market.

The funds that are managed passively are required by their statutes to maintain a certain proportional property in securities that compose the index in question and to be totally invested, which makes the profits not too be as good in market recession periods.

An alternative to the index funds are the index participations, which are traded on the most important stock exchange market and they represent a proportional participation in securities comprehended in a determined index.

The majority of investors are familiarized with the index participations that are followed by the Dow 30 Index (DIA), the NASDAQ 100 (QQQ) and the S & P 500 (SPY), if well others follow the public services index, of technological an biotechnical companies, to mention just a few.

By the fact of being proportional participation (for example: 1 participation SPY equals a 1/5 of the basket of S & P 500), the participations have a high price for individual investors and, on the other hand, they don’t contemplate the reinvestment of dividends paid in cash money.

The costs, however, are lower, due that you only pay a normal commission of brokerage at the moment of buying or selling without any other expense for management or burden for an anticipated rescue.

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