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
Private equity is heading into UK pension funds — backed by government policy and industry enthusiasm. But the evidence for ordinary savers capturing meaningful returns, after fees and illiquidity costs, is far weaker than the sales pitch suggests. Before your retirement savings are redirected, here's what the research actually shows.
Robin Powell
Mar 510 min read
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