Active Investment Management
Active and passive investments are profit-making strategies involving the selling of assets. These types of investing gauge their success against a common benchmark. For active investment management, the financial manager seeks to outperform this standard. On the other hand, passive investment aims to match it.

What is Active Management Investment?
Active management investment refers to a team of financial experts or an investment advisor monitoring and making transactions on your portfolio of funds on your behalf to exceed a set benchmark or index. Active management requires expertise and skills in market dynamics to know when to purchase or sell investments.
While you can actively manage your investment portfolio, an active fund manager has the expertise and knowledge of money markets. They use their expertise to buy and sell assets to make profits. They capitalize on short-term price fluctuations and maintain the fund's asset allocation.
What is the Difference Between Active and Passive Management?
Active management requires constant purchasing and selling to exceed a set benchmark or index. On the other hand, passive management replicates a specific benchmark or index to equal the performance. Unlike the active investment manager who sells assets as soon as they buy, passive managers purchase and hold assets long-term.
There is no winner or loser in active vs. passive investment. Several conditions inform the suitability of a strategy.
Investment Objective
If you want long-term benefits - things like retirement savings, passive investment is the best option for you. However, active investment management is the best strategy to make profits quickly. Active investment managers rely on short-term price fluctuations to buy or sell assets to make quick yields.
Affordability
Active investment management is more expensive than passive management. The difference in pricing is because passive investment does not require security analysis in indexes. Passive investments also have low trading volumes, which decreases prices for investors.
Additionally, passively managed funds need little research and maintenance. Therefore, they have lower expense ratios than most active funds.
Risks
Active investment management has high risks because of portfolio diversification. Passive investment needs minimal diversification. In addition, it requires the expertise and experience of an investment manager because one wrong move could obliterate substantial gains. Therefore, the risk of losing an entire portfolio is low.
Flexibility in Dynamic Markets
Active investors get defensive strategies like money and government bonds when the markets are down as a buffer against catastrophic losses. Investors can also migrate to retain more equities in growing markets. Their proactive approach to market conditions enables investors to make short-term gains.
In passive investment, there is no exit strategy. When the market becomes volatile, there is no guarantee of quick recovery. Investment managers advise on continuous asset revisions.
Trading Options
Active portfolio management comes with additional trading options. Active investment strategies like hedging or short selling increase the odds of outperforming indexes. Active investment experts apply such techniques efficiently.
Tax Management
With the help of an active investment manager or an investment advisor, you can offset gains for tax purposes with active investment. Tax-loss harvesting is also possible in passive management, but they never get immense capital gains tax. However, the volume of trading in active investment provides more possibilities for massive tax-loss harvesting.
What Techniques are used by Active Managers?
Active portfolio managers use some techniques to increase returns or reduce loss risks.
Short Selling
Also called shorting a stock, short selling is a technique used by fund managers to help investors profit when stocks lose their value. Short selling is the opposite of buying shares at low prices and selling them at high costs. Investment managers use this technique when a company's stocks are overvalued.
Hedging
Hedging is a mitigation technique that averts risks arising from adverse price movements. It is a portfolio protection strategy that offsets investment losses. The method often results in profit reduction.
Diversification
Diversification in risk management techniques entails including several investments in one portfolio; Having a diverse portfolio reduces the risk of individual holding or security.
Growth Investment
Growth sectors are economic areas with exponential gains - they include technology, health care, construction, and so forth. Investing in such markets increases investor capital. Growth investment also entails investing in growth stocks from start-ups with growth potential.
Contact Us
Active and passive investments require the expertise of an investment advisor or active investment manager. The technicalities of the money markets require in-depth knowledge, experience, and training.
At RTI Wealth Management, we can help determine which options would be best for your financial future. Contact us at 970-236-8800 for more information.
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