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Why active funds underperform even when the manager picks well
The managers running the biggest active funds picked stocks that beat the market in 2025 — and most still lagged their benchmark. A Morningstar do-nothing experiment and a body of academic research explain why active funds underperform even when the picking is good: skilled buying undone by poor selling, the hidden cost of trading, and the incentives that keep managers churning. The UK evidence points the same way.
Robin Powell
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Is the MoneySuperMarket investment platform any good?
MoneySuperMarket spent decades telling people where to find the cheapest deal. Now it sells its own investment platform, pitched as low-cost and compared, for once, by the company doing the selling. The funds are sensibly chosen. But is 0.34 per cent a year really low, and is a comparison run by the seller one to trust? A look at the fee, the pot-size trap and the comparison the comparison site left out.
Robin Powell
Jul 228 min read
Rachel Reeves has bigger priorities than your returns
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced initiatives to stimulate UK economic growth in the Spring Statement. Although the details have yet...
Robin Powell
Mar 28, 20253 min read
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