Warnings that index funds have broken the stock market all imply a threshold: a share of the market at which price discovery fails. Nobody making the argument names it. Owen Lamont, writing in the Financial Analysts Journal, argues that no such number exists short of complete passive ownership, and that what actually determines whether prices stay informative is who is left doing the trading. His case, the strongest peer-reviewed research against it, and what the performance
New research has put a price on the emotional pleasure of owning collectible investments. The cost is roughly 2.6 percentage points of annual return, and it doesn't stop at art and wine. From property to employer stock to ESG funds, the same invisible fee may be silently eroding your portfolio.
Robin Powell
Mar 2410 min read
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