Gain managed offshore exposure with exchange traded funds
By Kirk Swart
A hotly contested debate amongst investment professionals and retail investors is whether one should make use of an active portfolio manager to manage your investment portfolio or rather go it alone by investing in passively managed Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). Active portfolio managers argue that by investing via an ETF, one can never outperform the market index and that their skills and research will provide consistent market outperformance. Proponents of ETFs, on the other hand, argue that on average, active portfolio managers do not outperform the market index, and paying the manager for the underperformance on top of it is not worth it.