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The battle between active and passive

the Index Card is a popular personal finance book, first published in 2017. Its thesis is simple: Buy an index fund – like the ALSI Top 40 – rather than paying the fees of asset managers, who in the long run rarely outperform the market. I asked Nico Katzke, head of portfolio solutions at Satrix, why we should not all follow The Index Card’s advice and go for passive rather than active investing.

“The debate has often been framed, wrongly

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