This is better than most articles on this subject but still a fairy tale. Passive investing (buying everything in proportion to market cap) by definition creates no relative price impact. Price impact is only created by active trading.https://www.ft.com/content/994bdda8-b704-4e4c-9b19-4e0021f0b309 …
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To the extent that flows have depressed the price of small cap stocks, it’s because investors are rejecting small cap funds and choosing an S&P 500 tracker instead, which is an *active* choice.
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Value and size are also correlated (small stocks tend to be cheaper) so the choice to buy a large cap index fund rather than small cap also increases the growth/value spread, but again this is an active choice.
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Not sure I get your point. Presuming 3-5% cash, absolute pi would be a function of the available liquidity of the stock relative to the desired position size imo. The relative price impact point is an interesting thought.
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By absolute price impact I mean impact on the valuation of all stocks (eg total market price to earnings). If you redeem from a fund which is 97% invested in US stocks and buy a fund which is 100% invested in US stocks you won’t change the overall market valuation.
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