ActivePassive Investing

Envestnet has spent years studying the performance of active and passive managers across asset classes. Our resulting philosophy for ActivePassive investing can be easily adopted and offers scalability, consistency, and the chance for improved conversations with clients around fees and performance.

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What is ActivePassive investing?

ActivePassive investing blends active and passive solutions in an effort to deliver the best of both. Our approach provides what we view as an ideal combination of active and passive investment strategies. We’ve studied each asset class and looked at where active managers are more likely to outperform and where they are less likely to outperform.

Our Active vs. Passive Asset Management Study

In 2006, we first published our study that dissected which asset classes are better candidates for active or passive management. Our research has been refreshed since then, and the results show how we should consider and review asset classes for active and passive investing.

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Our ActivePassive philosophy framework

Envestnet offers an ActivePassive philosophy that takes into account decades of research, including which asset classes are better candidates for active or passive management. It takes into account what clients care about most: Investing intelligently with the client’s dollars Cost savings Flexibility of messaging More time spent with clients

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ActivePassive by the numbers

  • $4.33Bin AUM utilizing ActivePassive investment approach
  • 2.7K+advisors invested in PMC ActivePassive models
  • 25K+accounts invested in portfolios managed by PMC utilizing the ActivePassive approach
  • 2005Began managing portfolios under the ActivePassive framework
  • 2006First comprehensive ActivePassive research study
  • 2022Published latest ActivePassive research paper
As of June 30, 2024. Includes accounts/assets under management, administration, and subscription arrangements.
 
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Analyzing Q2 2024 active and passive asset classes
Our ActivePassive Scorecard shows active funds beating their category benchmarks in 8 of the 19 asset classes we tracked for the first quarter.
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Portfolio Management Consulting
Learn more about who we are, what services we offer, and how we can help you improve client outcomes.
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Q2 2024 ActivePassive Trends
Listen to Brooks Friedreich, Principal Director, Investment Solutions Strategy at Envestnet, as he breaks down the latest trends and advisor flows around active and passive management across different asset classes.
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ActivePassive PMC ETF Portfolios
By bringing together two seemingly opposite investment approaches, the ActivePassive PMC ETF Portfolios offer the potential benefits of both approaches while limiting their shortcomings.
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WHO IS PMC?

We are the advisor to the advisor

In 2006, we published our first set of research on active and passive asset management. Today, we offer comprehensive investment research, consulting, and portfolio management, including our Private Wealth Consulting services. Our disciplined process incorporates extensive research, rigorous qualitative review, and quantitative analysis. We are made up of 100+ experienced investment professionals.

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Our three operating principles that help drive value and objectivity

We perform the research and due diligence that drives the selection of asset managers on the Envestnet platform, offering visibility and insight into a broad range of asset managers and investment types.

We can leverage the same advanced research approach we use to select Envestnet’s asset managers to consult with advisors and institutions on selecting the models, strategies, and portfolios.

We develop and offer our own investment models and portfolios, along with those from hundreds of leading asset managers across all investment types. As a consultant, we leverage our research and the Envestnet platform to consider a wide range of models and strategies available.

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Disclosure

Investments that utilize an ActivePassive strategy carry specific risks that investors should consider before investing in ActivePassive portfolios. In certain market conditions, combining active and passive investment strategies may lose value or underperform fully active or fully passive strategies. ActivePassive investment strategies are also subject to the risks of both active and passive investment strategies. Active investment strategies are subject to active risk. Active risk arises by deviating a portfolio or investment away from its passive benchmark through portfolio management decisions that are made by either humans or software which are subject to error and/or bias. Passive investment strategies have the risk of not closely track the performance of the underlying index they seek to replicate. While attempting to track an index, passive investments often do not consider a company's profitability, financial health, or growth potential in their investment selection criteria.