I am sure they are, otherwise there is absolutely no point in comparison. 2% of fees deducted from NAV in many cases will just make the difference between under and overperfoming!
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Would be good to see the data on how much is the underperformance excluding the impact of fees.
This could be an indicator about ability of funds to pick winning stocks. How much they charge investors for this ability is second point
In my opinion if large active funds have fees of 0.5% or less, they might have a decent chance to be close to index. But I didn’t find data about it