If you have a higher-cost retirement annuity (RA) on which you are paying for active investment management, your provider or adviser is likely to defend it by saying the investments will deliver superior performance over time that will outweigh the higher costs.

Supporters of actively managed investments often point out that passive investments will always underperform the index they track...

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