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Michael Green - Macro Contrarian

The Business Brew

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The Problem With Passive Management

There's so much anger for lack of a better term at the system. And one of the things that's kind of bothered me about the passive movement is you give your money to Vanguard, Vanguard just buys regardless of price. If it all goes bad, is this going to be like one more, Hey, the system is out to get everyone rather than we all abdicated all our responsibility and just kept buying regardless of price? I'm actually much less concerned about that because most active managers really don't take a particularly active interest in proxy voting, et cetera. It drives really perverse conclusions on the market that go beyond simply does Microsoft or Apple get a continuous bid from Vanguard.

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