The Passive Vs. Active Fund Monitor (2022)

This report describes the competitive landscape for passively and actively managed retail
funds from 2013 to 2022 in Canada, the United States and worldwide.

Section 1 describes the methodology that serves as the backbone of this study.

Section 2 describes the Canadian retail fund market. We review the dollar amount, market
share and flow of funds of passive and active funds. We review the types of passive funds
offered on the Canadian market, classifying them into three categories: market-capitalization
weighted, factor funds and others. We also examine Canada’s management expense ratios
(MERs) of passive and active funds.

Sections 3, 4 and 5 review the dollar amount, market share and flow of funds of passive and
active retail funds for the US, the world ex-US and the world overall.