The Big Question: How are you using passives in your portfolios?

Mark Harris, CF Eden Global Multi-Strategy fund Equity, fixed income   We use passives to get appropriate access to a particular market. Using, for example, an ETF will give us diversified access at a good price. There are two main reasons for doing this: one, tactically, for asset allocation purposes and two, where we want exposure to a market but where we do not believe that active managers are adding enough value to make it worth our while to use them. Cost is always a major driver, as we want to keep fund charges down as much as possible. Passives also tend to be liquid, wh...