A Bit More on Active versus Passive

The following info is purely anecdotal and unscientific, but a useful bit nonetheless.

I have access to a major corporate 401-k retirement plan that has 17 active and passive fund choices; some of the active funds have an equivalent passive fund alternative.

Per the table below, this is how some of the active funds performed compared to their equivalent passive funds.  Not surprisingly, each of the active funds underperformed their passive counterpart; some by a wide margin.  Not sure if this relationship can persist, but the evidence keeps piling up in favor of passive.

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