General Advice Disclaimer - Please read!

The S&P Dow Jones Indices has been the quasi-scorekeeper of the ongoing debate on active investing versus passive debate. While the report will not end the debate on active versus passive investing in Australia, the report makes a meaningful contribution by examining market segments in which one strategy works better than the other.

There is nothing new about the index versus active debate. It has been a contentious subject for decades, and there are few powerful believers on both sides, with the vast majority of market participants falling somewhere in between.