Many active managers outperformed their benchmarks in the past 12 months and over the past 5 years.

With a deluge of actively managed ETFs launching in 2021, are they all doomed to fail to outperform the benchmark indices just as such funds in the trraditional structure have? This case study attempts to shed some light on this subject.

T. Rowe Price, Fidelity, and Goldman Sachs are among the mammoths that recently launched actively managed ETFs. But DoubleLine has been actively managing DBLV, an equity value fund, for years.