Meanings of passive investing in English

A growing preference for passive investing has also been hurting these players.

You have a lot of index exposure through passive investing with ETFs.

Billionaire Paul Singer is warning of a growing and menacing threat: passive investing.

What is your view on the gradual fund flow from active investing to passive investing?

He told Fortune magazine he expects to write "a lot" about passive investing.

It aims to tap growth in so-called passive investing, where money managers track indexes rather than individual stocks.

The rise of low-cost exchange-traded funds and passive investing will also be a challenge for stock pickers, he said.

Advocates of so-called smart beta strategies say they aim to combine the best elements of active and passive investing.

However, another recent survey by consultancy EY showed that the rapid rate of growth across passive investing shows no sign of slowing.

Active fund management is in retreat, with investors increasingly flocking to low-cost passive investing strategies, but is there a danger of overshoot?

That push toward passive investing has helped make index-based fund providers BlackRock Inc and privately-held Vanguard the world's two largest money managers.

Bogle found that this kind of passive investing beat active trading by 1.2 percentage points from 1976-2011.

In fact, I think passive investing... has reached mania status as we went into the peak of the global stock market, Gundlach said.

Vanguard, the dominant player in passive investing, skews the fee picture because such a lopsided amount of money has gone into its funds.

Investors may prefer a passive investing approach over active, or vice versa, and may also feel more comfortable with investment managers they know well.

The seemingly inexorable rise of index funds and passive investing strategies has profound implications for hedge funds and for ordinary investors seeking market-beating returns.