Passive aggressive: the best way to utilise passive funds

Each month, data from platforms suggests a new investment trend: a boost for fixed income, or burgeoning interest in North America, perhaps. While these tend to come and go, one continued to rise in popularity throughout 2012: investing in passive and index funds. Platforms have been scrambling to react to adviser demand for low-cost alternatives to active funds. Passive funds dominated Nucleus’ inflows leaderboard for 2012, with three of the top five coming from index trackers Vanguard, Dimensional and Legal & General. The pricing clarity provided by the Retail Distribution Review...