The Power of Passive Investing: More Wealth With Less Work
by Richard A. Ferri · 4 Nov 2010 · 345pp · 87,745 words
All Together Summary Chapter 9: Changing Investor Behavior Helping People Go Passive Three Non-Indexers Investing Is Serious Business Summary Part III: The Case for Passive Investing Chapter 10: The Passive Management Process The Five Step Process Investment Policy Statements Summary Chapter 11: The Passive Case for Individual Investors Begin at the
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Investment Decisions Hired Help Summary Chapter 12: The Passive Case for Charities and Personal Trusts Your Role as a Trustee Laws Governing Trusts Trusts and Passive Investing Private Trust Management Nonprofit Organizations Passive Versus Active Investing Watch Out For Conflicts of Interest Summary Chapter 13: The Passive Case for Pension Funds Legal
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of the Fiduciary Advisor What Clients Expect from Advisors What Advisors Present Summary Glossary Notes About the Author Index Additional Praise for The Power of Passive Investing “The retail stockbroker will soon become as extinct as the dinosaur, and good riddance. Thousands of investment professionals, tired of selling the same old
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peril.” —Mel Lindauer, Forbes columnist and co-author of The Bogleheads’ Guide to Investing and The Bogleheads’ Guide to Retirement Planning “The Power of Passive Investing is as much an enlightening history lesson as a compelling argument for building a portfolio on a foundation of index funds. Rick Ferri invigorates a
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turn away from Wall Street and make intelligent investment decisions on their own.” —Bill Schultheis, advisor and author, The New Coffeehouse Investor “Enemies of passive investing aren’t going to like this book, but who cares what they think? Ferri provides more damning evidence against stock picking and other money-losing
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of Finance and Economics, Montclair State University “By focusing on the irrefutable facts, Rick Ferri has put together an unassailable case for The Power of Passive Investing. Advisers who implement the principles outlined within this book will strengthen their relationships with clients by delivering solutions in lieu of products.” —Rudy Aguilera, Principal
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, Helios LLC The Power of Passive Investing Books by Richard A. Ferri The ETF Book All About Asset Allocation All About Index Funds The Bogleheads’ Guide to Retirement Planning (with Mel Lindauer
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The failure of active fund managers to deliver on their promise of high returns while continuing to charge high fees creates a compelling case for passive investing. Passive investing is all about investing in low-cost passively managed index funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that match the financial market returns less a tiny
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portfolio will greatly increase the probability you’ll reach your financial goals. This book provides you with the detailed studies and undeniable evidence favoring a passive investing approach. It’s filled with academic research and data that goes back many decades. This information clearly shows that trying to beat the market
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mutual funds verses index funds and the unsuccessful methods people use in their attempts to choose winning active funds. Part III makes the case for passive investing for four different types of investors: individuals, private trusts and charities, pension funds, and investment advisors. Part I: Active versus Passive In the beginning,
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, given the high odds of picking a losing fund and the average performance shortfall from those funds. It’s interesting that two vocal supporters of passive investing come from unlikely groups: famous active investors and the federal government. Investment greats such as Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, and David Swensen are all
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billing at the bookstore, but the truth must be repeated over and over again because lies about investing are constantly being told. Part III: Passive Investment Policy Part III begins with a discussion about the purpose of investment policy. A well articulated investment policy leads to a well balanced asset allocation
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and practical thinking. The results are conclusive: a portfolio of low-cost index funds provides the highest probability for meeting your long-term financial goals. Passive investing IS power investing. Acknowledgments I have many people to thank for this book. First, my patient and loving wife, Daria, to whom this book
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fund companies didn’t need to be concerned about losing assets when their managers underperformed the markets because few people monitored the returns that closely. Passive Investing Makes Its Case The cozy relationship between Wall Street and Main Street lasted for several decades. Then, in the 1960s, a barrage of brash,
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closely and is capitalization weighted, then a product tracking that index is a viable choice for a passive portfolio. Not All Indexes Are Passive Passive investing as defined in this book means earning a market return in index funds and ETFs that follow benchmarks. The Morningstar Principia database listed more than
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. The strategy often consists of highly sophisticated quantitative models that are designed to beat a market benchmark. These strategy products aren’t considered true passive investing and should be avoided in a low-cost passive portfolio. The Portfolio Management Debate So far we’ve addressed the active versus passive debate as
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was an innovative idea that’s now widely read by investors and advisors, and results in interesting media commentary from believers in active investing and passive investing. The SPIVA scorecard compares the quarterly performance data of more than 3,500 actively managed mutual funds covering U.S. equities, international equities, and
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anymore. Summary Researchers are constantly improving performance methods that slice away the alphas that winning active managers are claiming. New studies on active versus passive investing improve upon the earlier research and expose more risk factors that are used by active management to compete with index funds. The probability of finding
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reluctantly promote ETF portfolios in fee-based accounts. These portfolios aren’t low-cost of course, but at least Wall Street now begrudgingly acknowledges that passive investing is an alternative to active management, at least with part of a portfolio. The Naysayers In early 2001, shortly after the bubble burst in
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well articulated policy for selecting investment options and a method for reviewing those options on an annual basis. Later chapters make a detailed case for passive investing for institutional investors. Chapter 12 covers charities and private trusts, while Chapter 13 covers pension funds and self-directed employer-sponsored plans such as
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liquid investments: This level represents the bulk of most investor’s assets. These include long-term holdings in mutual funds, ETFs, and managed accounts. Passive investing in index funds and ETFs should be the strategy used in this core part of investment policy. Illiquid long-term investments: Many investors commit capital
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these returns, and no experienced investor would seriously consider them. Once you go through the difficult search to find an advisor who believes wholeheartedly in passive investing and who you feel comfortable with, then your chances for a successful experience increases substantially. The following are some of the benefits provided by
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themes are very familiar to passive investors because they’re the main reason why passively managed funds outperform actively managed investments. UPIA and Passive Investing The UPIA specifically avoids endorsing passive investing as the only prudent way to incorporate the lessons of modern portfolio theory and research. However, Edward C. Halbach, Jr., the
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entitled “In Indexing We Trust,” published in the Journal of Indexes in 2004: During the course of drafting the Restatement, there was discussion about making passive investing the only way to invest and manage trust portfolios prudently. . . . In one of their articles, they [law professors] observed that “when market funds have
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management is in the best interest of a trust and its beneficiaries, and they can adequately justify in writing such reasoning, then they may proceed. Passive investing is the answer in all other cases. Nonprofit Organizations The Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act (UPMIFA) regulates the investment and expenditure of
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investment advisor who has strong academic credentials in the field and has many years’ experience working with people who have similar situations. Barring special circumstances, passive investing using a strategic asset allocation in low-cost, low-tax, and lower risk index funds and ETFs is the prudent choice for personal trusts.
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familiar with the Uniform Prudent Investor Act because it sets forth in a very concise way the prudent fiduciary standards that regulate their investment conduct. Passive investing is an ideal choice for pension plans, especially small plans. The trustees of these plans typically are not professional investors, yet they have tremendous
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Accounting problems Active Fund Relative Performance Model Active fund(s): early funds portfolios of strikes against style bias and turnover in industry Active investing vs. passive investing Active management: advisors long-term solutions and trust investing and UPIA and Advisor(s): active management and cost and tax control by diversification and as
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equivalents Cash flow analysis Category styles Certificate in Investment Performance Measurement (CIPM) CFA Institute/charter Changing investor behavior: helping people go passive investing as serious business naysayers to passive investing procrastinators and uninformed about passive investing Charitable trusts. See Trusts Chevalier, Judith Chicago CIPM. See Certificate in Investment Performance Measurement (CIPM) Client loyalty, win-win model
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B) Price-to-cash-flow Price Waterhouse Private trust management: categories of trusts restatement of trusts (third) taxes and UPIA and active management UPIA and passive investing Procrastinating non-index investors: changing/staying the course definition of endowment effect and land of the lost modern portfolio theory and veering off course Prospect
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model acts and for pension funds role of safe harbor, 401(k) trustees Trusts. See also Personal trusts; Private trust management assessments and laws governing passive investing and TSP. See Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) Turn-key retirement plans Tversky, Amos Two portfolio approach UMPERSA. See Uniform Management of Public Employee Retirement
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Investment (Swenson) Uniform Management of Public Employee Retirement Systems Act (UMPERSA) Uniform Prudent Investor Act (UPIA): active management and fiduciaries and low investment costs and passive investing and pension funds and professional delegation and Prudent Investor Rule of Prudent Man Rule of Restatement of trusts and UPMIFA and Uniform Prudent Management of
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battle against indexing selling sizzle as sell side of business Wall Street Journal Walmart 401(k) plan lawsuit Wealth-maximizing mutual fund investors Web sites, passive investing Wellington Board of Directors Wellington Fund, launch of Wellington Group of Funds Wells Fargo Bank Wharton School Williams, John Burr Wilshire 4500 index Wilshire 5000
The End of Indexing: Six Structural Mega-Trends That Threaten Passive Investing
by Niels Jensen · 25 Mar 2018 · 205pp · 55,435 words
The End of Indexing Six structural mega-trends that will threaten passive investing Niels Jensen Harriman house HARRIMAN HOUSE LTD 18 College Street Petersfield Hampshire GU31 4AD GREAT BRITAIN Tel: +44 (0)1730 233870 Email: enquiries@harriman-house.
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haven’t made myself clear by now, I will spell it out so even my dog understands it. It is time to step away from passive investing! Investing has been oh so simple for the better part of the last 35 years. All you had to do was to benchmark your portfolio
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& Company (2016,2) Poorer than their parents? Flat or falling incomes in advanced economies. McKinsey Global Institute. Moody’s (2017) www.moodys.com/research/Moodys-Passive-investing-to-overtake-active-in-just-four-to--PR_361541 OECD (2015) The Labour Share in G20 Economies, OECD Publishing. OECD (2016) OECD Pensions Outlook 2016
Fixed: Why Personal Finance is Broken and How to Make it Work for Everyone
by John Y. Campbell and Tarun Ramadorai · 25 Jul 2025
obtain the average result simply by buying and holding a value-weighted index of all the assets that exist. Following this strategy is known as “passive investing,” and deviating from it is called “active investing.” Now, the average dollar invested by all players together earns exactly the return on the value-weighted
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, 92–93, 207 overdraft protection, 214 owner-occupied housing, 113; in retirement, 172–175 ownership registries, 202, 203 Paisabazaar, 242–243 partial insurance, 141–142 passive investing, 136 patent protection, retail finance and limited, 59–60, 276n19 pay-as-you-go public pensions, 153 payday lenders, 89, 275n15 payment protection insurance (PPI
The New Science of Asset Allocation: Risk Management in a Multi-Asset World
by Thomas Schneeweis, Garry B. Crowder and Hossein Kazemi · 8 Mar 2010 · 317pp · 106,130 words
stock and bond investment (e.g., ETFs, OTC forward and options contracts) as well as more liquid and readily investable alternative investment forms (e.g., passive investable benchmark products). The addition of new investment forms has permitted individuals to more readily access previously illiquid or less transparent asset classes (e.g., private
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by Larry Harris · 2 Jan 2003 · 1,164pp · 309,327 words
. * * * ▶ A Trading Oxymoron Investment managers help people manage their funds. They may help people invest, as their name implies, or they may help people speculate. Passive investment managers pursue buy and hold strategies. Managers who buy and hold rarely trade. Indexing is the most common buy and hold strategy. Indexers try to
The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime
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to research and marketing firm The Harrison Group (HarrisonGroupInc.com), only 10% of penta-millionaires (net worth $5 million) report that their wealth came from passive investments. Age data was not provided but you can guess that none of the 10% were under 30. Think about it. Have you ever met a
Smarter Investing
by Tim Hale · 2 Sep 2014 · 332pp · 81,289 words
all in the industry including fund managers, product development and marketing teams, and advisers. The outlook for impartial fee-based advice and evidence-based, transparent passive investing has never been so promising, or important to us. DIY investing The ability to buy, and in many cases trade, funds and other securities online
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. The rationale for adopting a passive approach to investing is made succinctly by Professor Keane (2000): ‘The significance of the empirical evidence is not that passive investment will always outperform active investment, but that, at the time of decision-making, the balance of probabilities is always in favour of
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of this book. The most notable new entrant into the market has been Vanguard (www.vanguard.co.uk) who are the pioneers of low-cost, passive investing. They immediately forced a step change in the pricing of passive funds offering a UK FTSE All-Share Index fund at 0.15% (15 basis
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one of my clients, Barnett Ravenscroft Wealth Management. The aim of the station is to provide a well-argued, independent and robust position on why passive investing is an effective way for consumers to invest money and to provide an ongoing insight into, and understanding of, a range of industry related issues
Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever
by Robin Wigglesworth · 11 Oct 2021 · 432pp · 106,612 words
him the intellectual godfather of passive investing. ALFRED COWLES III. The wealthy tuberculosis-plagued heir of a newspaper fortune who undertook one of the first rigorous studies of how well investment professionals
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legendary economist at the University of Chicago, whose efficient-markets hypothesis helped explain why markets are so hard to beat, and inspired the birth of passive investing. JOHN MCQUOWN. A ferociously determined, computer-obsessed banker who convinced Wells Fargo to establish a skunk works and assemble the biggest crew of economic superstars
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Fargo’s trust department. He was initially a ferocious opponent of McQuown, but eventually became a convert to the cause and a zealous proselytizer for passive investing. WILLIAM FOUSE. A mustachioed bon vivant who put himself through university by playing jazz. After being pushed out of Mellon Bank, he became an
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working at third-tier, parochial banks in San Francisco, Chicago, and Boston—but today they are called index funds, and the approach is dubbed “passive investing.” Index funds are investment vehicles that simply try to mimic an index of financial securities. These indices can be big and well known—like the
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which are stretched so far beyond their original version that they become caricatures of themselves and then sometimes contra-functional. So it may be with passive investing,” the head of Elliott Management wrote in a letter to his investors in 2017.15 Singer is hardly a dispassionate observer. Index funds make
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, it is important to recognize the potentially negative implications and try to ameliorate them, rather than blindly deny that they exist. The growth of passive investing will prove one of the most consequential challenges that we face in the coming decades, not just to markets and investing but to the way
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their context in the broader history of investing, and help them see where we are now heading. The people behind the invention and growth of passive investing—though many of them hate the term, given its slothful connotations—are brilliant and fascinating, and many of them kindly shared extraordinarily liberally of
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the random-walk theory into a vibrant, multifaceted model for how markets function and how investors should approach them—laying the academic groundwork for the passive investing earthquake to come—came primarily from three unusually brilliant members of the profession: Harry Markowitz, William Sharpe, and Eugene Fama, each of whom would
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, and the idea of a cheap, simple product for the masses undoubtedly resonated. Nonetheless, despite Bogle’s later emergence as the leading champion of passive investing, the birth of the first index fund for ordinary everyday investors—an innovation that would ultimately upend the entire investment industry—was simply a result
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gain traction, while BGI’s quantitative strategies were red-hot, leading to a nerdy, BGI-specific microcosm of the wider industry debate about active versus passive investing. At a company retreat for BGI’s managing directors at the Loews Hotel, just off the Santa Monica Pier, Dunn tried to convince the
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Fink from a highly regarded Wall Street leader into the rarefied ranks of corporate executives referred to by only their first name, and decisively move passive investing from the investment industry’s hinterland to center stage. But the proposed deal was fraught with dangers. The financial industry was still reeling from
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the next chapter will explore in more depth. The recent proliferation of ETFs of indexes has completely obliterated the always blurred line between active and passive investing, with potentially harmful consequences. Especially so considering that the construction of the underlying index may be relatively opaque. In some cases, the opacity is
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indices clearly matters greatly, for both investors and the companies themselves—with Tesla a prime example. And the biggest cause is the growing pool of passive investing strategies that are irrevocably tied to indices. At the time of Tesla’s inclusion, S&P Dow Jones estimated that index funds would mechanistically
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it as a niche issue. Yet the indirect consequences can be huge, given the implication for the resulting money flows. As a result of the passive investing boom, index providers have gained “a position of private authority in capital markets with profound politico-economic consequences,” according to a 2020 paper by
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young fish oblivious to a pervasive reality that surrounds, sustains, and shapes everything around them is also the best way to describe the impact of passive investing on markets. Michael Green is one of a growing number of people sounding the alarm. An intense, cerebral man in his early fifties, with
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thorny problems to confront. * * * ♦ SOME OF THE NEGATIVE side effects are fairly uncontroversial, with only the degree and importance disputed by proponents and detractors of passive investing. Given that most index funds are capitalization-weighted, that means that most of the money they take in goes into the biggest stocks (or the
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. Trading volumes are also for the most part higher than ever, suggesting that the market’s vibrancy is hardly eroding with the rise of passive investing. It is tempting to dismiss many of these the concerns as the shrill self-serving scaremongering of industry incumbents coming under intensifying pressure from a
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the financial system for years to come.”8 In a typically balanced fashion, the Fed’s economists found that the tectonic shift from active to passive investing is “affecting the composition of financial stability risks by mitigating some and increasing others.” Yet critics like Green insist this evenhandedness amounted to a
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prove with index funds, even though the debate over their impact on financial markets will undoubtedly grow in the coming years. And the disruptive impact passive investing is having on the rest of the financial industry is already becoming abundantly clear. * * * ♦ ELIZABETH FERNANDO SUSPECTED something was afoot when her new boss
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past decade.* The index fund pioneers still vividly remember the scorn with which they were long held, and the reluctance of many investors to embrace passive investing, even when the performance of the portfolio managers was frequently lamentable. Today, even fund managers who manage to beat their benchmarks are no longer
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everyone was merely invested in an index fund—was zero. But some investors and analysts fret that given the strength of the trend toward greater passive investing, the market’s efficiency will gradually atrophy, with potentially dire consequences. “A given investment in active may or may not be the best decision
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has to make markets efficient, and somehow they have to be compensated for the work involved. This paradox has hardly held back the growth of passive investing. Many investors gradually realized that whatever academic theory one subscribes to, the cold unforgiving fact is that over time most active managers underperform their
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rules of poker, the metaphor is a compelling explanation for why markets actually appear to be becoming harder to beat even as the tide of passive investing continues to rise. Mediocre fund managers are simply being gradually squeezed out of the industry. At the same time, the number of individual investors
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industry. The biggest emerging flashpoint—and one that some in the index industry will privately but grudgingly concede is valid—is what the growth of passive investing means for how all public companies are run. This was vividly illustrated in the aftermath of a uniquely American tragedy. Chapter 18 OUR NEW
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make markets more bubbly or fragile remains inconclusive at best. The newest and arguably most potent line of criticism is what the growing heft of passive investing means for corporate governance, and the implications of a strengthening industry oligopoly. The term “corporate governance” may seem dry and niche, something that only
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country defaulted in 2001, eventually extracting $2.4 billion from Buenos Aires. In 2017, he wrote a letter to investors that rained brimstone onto passive investing instead. The main thrust of his incendiary letter was that corporate accountability has been declining for decades, and that the rise of index funds was
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how worthy and important the issue, it will inevitably drag index fund providers into politically controversial territory. The biggest challenge in the coming era of passive investing will be to navigate the balance between being passive and active owners, especially at a time of intense political and cultural polarization. For the index
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of traditional investment groups that will likely continue to thrive.23 “Unless law changes, the effect of indexation will be to turn the concept of ‘passive’ investing on its head and produce the greatest concentration of economic control in our lifetimes,” Professor Coates warned. “The prospect of twelve people even potentially controll
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what became BlackRock and built it into the world’s biggest investment group, culminating in its audacious purchase of Barclays Global Investors, the powerhouse of passive investing. In the early days, the investment industry mostly mocked the nascent index investing phenomenon. But once it started to gain traction, mockery turned into
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“US Senator Queries MSCI over Inclusion of Chinese Shares in Major Benchmark,” Reuters, June 13, 2019. 16. Vladyslav Sushko and Grant Turner, “The Implications of Passive Investing for Securities Markets,” BIS Quarterly Review, March 2018. 17. Joe Rennison, Robert Armstrong, and Robin Wigglesworth, “The New Kings of the Bond Market,” Financial Times
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244 Million Bet on Volatility Jump at Year-End,” Bloomberg, February 16, 2018. 3. Michael Green, “Policy in a World of Pandemics, Social Media and Passive Investing,” Logica Capital Advisers, March 26, 2020. 4. Brian Scheid, “Top 5 Tech Stocks’ S&P 500 Dominance Raises Fears of Bursting Bubble,” S&P Global
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Volatility?,” Journal of Finance, September 22, 2018. 8. Kenechukwu Anadu, Mathias Kruttli, Patrick McCabe, Emilio Osambela, and Chae Hee Shin, “The Shift from Active to Passive Investing: Potential Risks to Financial Stability?,” Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2018. 9. Matthew Goldstein and Alexandra Stevenson, “Carl Icahn Calls BlackRock a ‘Very Dangerous Company
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Participants of US Fixed-Income Exchange-Traded Funds,” Bank of Canada, November 2020. 13. Anadu, Kruttli, McCabe, Osambela, and Shin, “The Shift from Active to Passive Investing.” 14. Robin Wigglesworth, Owen Walker, and Josephine Cumbo, “UK Universities Pension Fund Closes Stockpicking Team,” Financial Times, February 13, 2020. 15. Wigglesworth, Walker, and
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2020. 20. Myles Udland, “Jack Bogle Envisions ‘Chaos, Catastrophe’ in Markets If Everyone Were to Index,” Yahoo Finance, May 6, 2017. 21. Luke Kawa, “Bernstein: Passive Investing Is Worse for Society Than Marxism,” Bloomberg, August 23, 2016. 22. Sanford Grossman and Joseph Stiglitz, “On the Impossibility of Informationally Efficient Markets,” American Economic
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1980. 23. Ben Johnson, “The Cost Matters Hypothesis,” Morningstar, February 10, 2016. 24. Michael Mauboussin, Dan Callahan, and Darius Majd, “Looking for Easy Games. How Passive Investing Shapes Active Management,” Credit Suisse, January 4, 2017. 25. Robin Wigglesworth, “Why the Index Fund ‘Bubble’ Should Be Applauded,” Financial Times, September 23, 2019. 26
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March 2, 2018. 3. Jack Bogle, “Bogle Sounds a Warning on Index Funds,” Wall Street Journal, November 29, 2018. 4. Simone Foxman, “Paul Singer Says Passive Investing Is ‘Devouring Capitalism,’ ” Bloomberg, August 3, 2017. 5. Bill McNabb, “Getting to Know You: The Case for Significant Shareholder Engagement,” speech at Lazard’s 2015
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195–96, 247 Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, 177 Pacific Commodities Exchange, 170 Pacific Vegetable Oil, 169 Paine Webber Jackson & Curtis, 111 Parsons, James, 199–200, 201 passive investing brief overview of, 7–8 Buffett-Seides wager, 1–2, 3–4, 6, 9–11, 15–17 index inclusion effect, 254–62 origin story of
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index funds even in a downturn. That is why every single bout of major market turmoil since the 1970s has actually accelerated the shift into passive investing, rather than slowed it down. * The data bears this out. In addition to a “persistence scorecard,” S&P Dow Jones Indices publishes snapshots of
The Permanent Portfolio
by Craig Rowland and J. M. Lawson · 27 Aug 2012
is a mutual fund that tracks the broad movements of a stock-market index, such as the S&P 500.) Over the long term, this passive investing approach has been shown to produce above-average returns for patient investors. Why? There are many reasons, but primarily because investing in index funds costs
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much less than nearly any other method. In fact, Stanford University professor William Sharpe famously demonstrated that passive investing with low-cost index funds must produce better results than traditional investing. The average return of both methods is the average return of the market
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that path necessarily see smaller returns on their investments. (To read more, see http://tinyurl.com/sharpe-rocks.) But there are other ways to explore passive investing besides index funds. Three years ago, I read a book called Fail-Safe Investing by Harry Browne. This tiny volume, first published in 1999, champions
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a method of passive investing that Browne called the Permanent Portfolio. And while it's a little more complicated than simply investing in index funds, the ideas are still fairly
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with the plan. Making the Most of Your Investments A portfolio that is simple, safe, and stable can be achieved by doing the following: Using passive investing only. Keep costs low. Use volatile individual assets to reduce overall portfolio volatility. Expect the unexpected and embrace the idea of market uncertainty
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. Passive Investing Passive investing is the opposite of the active asset management that is typically offered on Wall Street. The Permanent Portfolio is a passive strategy, which means that
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sound, has been shown repeatedly by academic and industry research for decades. In most cases, actively managed funds are all fighting for second place behind passive investing strategies. Standard & Poor's (S&P) has its own S&P Indices Versus Active Funds (SPIVA) scorecard. S&P is the leading market index creator
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Portfolio is easier to manage with lower costs than many other strategies, but for purposes of minimizing taxes it offers clear advantages: 1. Using simple passive investing avoids managers and strategies that can churn a portfolio and generate unnecessary taxes. 2. The simple allocation requires less management and rebalancing which reduces the
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out in this book with less detail, but with the same message. Why the Best-Laid Investment Plans Usually Go Wrong—Harry Browne was a passive-investing advocate for many years and this book is one of his best on the subject. A great book that breaks down the earlier formulation of
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Gold Commodities, gold investments vs. Confiscation of assets Consumer Price Index Corporate debt: cash investment in company stocks as corporate bonds as Costs: active vs. passive investing bond-related cash-related commercial Permanent Portfolio fund dollar cost averaging gold-related implementation rebalancing incurring stock-related taxes as (see Taxes) trading Counterparty risk
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Treasury Long Term Mutual Fund Nabielsky, Jose Natural disasters Natural resources New Zealand Mint Nixon administration Norstad, John O'Kane, Mike Oppenheimer Core Bond fund Passive investing: bond funds as Permanent Portfolio based on stock index funds as tax considerations with Pensions. See also Retirement plans Performance: 25/75 portfolio 50/50
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diversification in (see Diversification) flexibility of, to expect unexpected Golden Rules of financial safety for implementation of international investments in (see International investments) modification of passive investing through performance of (see Performance) rebalancing and maintenance of (see Rebalancing and maintenance) resources on simplicity approach to tax considerations for (see Taxes) Variable Portfolio
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investing in safe deposit boxes in Swiss Bank gold Swiss francs Swiss Gold ETF Swiss Physical Gold ETF types of Swiss banks Taxes: active vs. passive investment asset allocation and bond-related capital gains cash-related collectible gains commercial Permanent Portfolio fund tax considerations dividend geographic diversification tax considerations gold-related institutional
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