The Great Fund Debate

Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Don McDonald

Education, Business, Investing, How To

4.5 • 811 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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We revisit the "active vs. passive" debate. We thought this debate had been settled, yet many still invest with active money managers. Then, we hear from listeners: Objectively, why do we hate Bitcoin? How should an elderly mother invest for heirs? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.5	The great debate in the financial services industry.
0:48.0	Active versus passive.
0:52.1	I'm going to put reverb on that because there are many.
0:57.3	You know, for most of the history of the, the mutual fund industry and the money management industry,
1:03.6	it has been believed that active funds are superior in every way to just owning the dull boring market,
1:15.9	which people have referred to as either the Dow or the S&P 500 most of the time.
1:20.4	Neither of which is the best way to go, but sure.
1:23.3	Well, but that was all based on limited data and a lot of anecdotes as opposed to evidence.
1:36.8	Then when people actually started studying the anecdotes, they found the truth that a degree of passivity called or indexing,
1:52.1	straight indexing, is better than active management in most cases.
1:59.2	Has been.
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