Since the depths of the financial crisis there has been a “great cost mighration” as Eric Balchunas of Bloomberg Intelligence puts it.
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Recently Moody’s predicted that, by 2021, passive assets are set to overtake active assets
Given this shirt, there has been a deluge of misinformation about the impact of increasing passive ownership on the markets. Here’s a really nice article by Larry Swedroe dispelling the notion that increasing passive ownership is distorting the markets:
https://www.etf.com/sections/index-investor-corner/swedroe-index-investings-market-impact?nopaging=1