Remain active in your analysis, look for quality companies at discounted prices and be patient waiting for them to reach their discounted price before buying.
Talk to an investment company that employs active money management with their own expensive analysis team and proprietary research and they will inevitably tell you that, yes, there is a such a thing as smart, talented money managers.
In a strongly worded editorial, the New England Journal of Medicine took issue with an analysis that had dismissed a link between an active ingredient in the pills and cancer.
This analysis concludes that the United States must play an active, engaged leadership role if the considerable positive potential of a unified, democratic Germany is to be realized.
Said another way: fundamental analysis of publicly available information cannot uncover opportunities that enable an active investor to consistently outperform an index fund.