Will robo-investing outperform the market?

(Sept 11): There are plenty of narratives in the matter of active versus passive investing. I, too, have discussed this issue at length here, in the past.

Fact: Investors are abandoning actively managed funds for passive ones. The record amounts currently invested in exchange-traded funds (ETFs) will testify to this.

Active fund managers certainly do themselves no favours through years of under-performance and failing to justify their fat fees. We have compiled returns for unit trusts and the numbers are hard to dispute.

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