How Passive Investing Could Change Capitalism

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🗓️ 17 December 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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The biggest macro trend in investing is the rise of so-called "passive investing." But while this may have advantages for the individual investor, it raises a whole new host of issues, such as elevating the role of index designers, and decreasing the emphasis on studying individual companies. On this week's Odd Lots podcast, we speak with Bernstein's Inigo Fraser-Jenkins who once wrote a note that said passive investing is "worse for society than Marxism."

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1:16.0	So Joe, we've talked before on this podcast about passive investing,
1:21.0	right?
1:22.0	I seem to remember that.
1:23.0	I'm sure we must have. In fact, are there any other types of investing anymore?
1:28.0	If we talked about investing, I'm sure we talked about passive investing.
1:33.0	No, you're absolutely right.
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