For some reason this breaks people’s intuitions and they get really excited about forced buying/selling from passive funds creating positive/negative feedback loops, which, I cannot emphasise enough, is not a thing that actually happens except in retail brain fantasies.
To the second point, yes I agree, I don’t think I have ever argued with this, in fact I explicitly talked about index adds/deletes as an exception when a passive ETF would need to trade (as well as new issuance or buybacks)
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I guess - I commonly say that the indexing complex is a source of a large amount of incremental momentum investing relative to the status quo it supplanted and feel justified statistically and causally in saying so given the above -- tho I agree mechanically re S&P itself
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I certainly agree that passive investing should be more supportive of momentum *in theory* when it replaces active, although I haven’t seen a ton of evidence for it (one obvious prediction would be that the momentum factor should be working better now but... it’s not?)
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