[TOP STORY] Actively managed funds vs passive in H2 2025: Spiva insights

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Tim Edwards from S&P says, ‘Sometimes people think that a passive approach, getting the market, is settling for average … our data suggests no, it's not quite settling for average. It might in fact be considerably better than average’.

2 Oct 3AM English South Africa Business News · Business

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