A. There is an assumption that actively managed funds tend to do better in bear markets. Unfortunately, it doesn't hold up in front of data.
According to the latest Morningstar data, 52% of actively managed mutual funds and almost 60% of actively managed bond funds were able to beat their category index benchmarks in Q2 (with just over 50% of actively managed funds outperforming during the downturn itself from the market peak in February to the trough in late March).
However, viewed on a year-to-date basis, only 43% of actively managed future funds have been able to outperform, as the number of equity outperformers dropped below 50%, and in the case of active bond funds in particular, barely 1/3rd outperformed in total year-to-date (as short duration bets were the wrong way in the midst of rapidly falling interest rates as the pandemic recession unfolded).