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Is Passive Indexes Really Passive?
Lasse: Passive indices are not passive at all times. By definition, in bill sharp's 19 91 the arithmetic of active management, the definition of pasive, passive is somebody who never transacts. And it takes this company and turns it from completely irrelevant into functionally a market cap giant that is then a bigger and bigger portion of the indices. The minute the floes went in the opposite direct, the behaviour completely reversed. Suddenly stocks were going to limit down with no actual trading information whatever. That insight combined with a paper that came out in two thousand 16 by loss a peterson at a c r led me on my journey.