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	<title>Financial Standard Comments - Active equity managers underwhelm in 2025: SPIVA</title>
	<description>While 2025 was ripe for stock picking and active fund managers thanks to dispersion widening, according to the latest SPIVA Scorecard, the majority still failed to beat the benchmark.</description>
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		<title>Comment by Elle Jay (First Advice)</title>
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<p><p>Peak active management was in 2010, just before all the data came in confirming that active management is nothing more than voodoo magic. Name a single other product or service that has systematically failed to fulfil its stated objective. If the flood of passive money is distorting valuations, why aren&#39;t active managers killing it?</p></p><p><a href="">Reply to article</a></p><p>For original story, <a href="">Click Here.</a></p>
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		<dc:creator>Elle Jay (First Advice)</dc:creator>
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