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Mike Green on the Dangers of the Rise of Passive Investing

Excess Returns

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Can Active Outperform Passive Investing?

Ego: In passive investing, you've removed even that degree of thoughtfulness. Ego: I was able to reframe the question and effectively attack it from a very different angle. He says in 2017, as he was pushing on this index dynamic, one of the really interesting developments was the explosion of inverse volatility ETFs. The XIV is basically just a mechanism for shorting the VIX, right, and taking advantage of certain characteristics. It was the definition of systematic passive investing.

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