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27 Jul

Should index funds be illegal?

by Guest Author
They’re All Friends in the Index Matt Levine Bloomberg, July 20, 2020   Matt Levine is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering...

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19 Mar

Wasn’t Passive Supposed to Blow Up During the Next Crash?

by Barry Ritholtz
Wall Street Pros Panic Over Coronavirus While Mom and Pop Buy Passive investors calmly bought amid the market plunge while the titans...

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17 Mar

BBRG: Passive Investors Calmly Bought While Pros Liquidated

by Barry Ritholtz
Wall Street Pros Panic Over Coronavirus While Mom and Pop Buy Passive investors calmly bought amid the market plunge while the titans...

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25 Feb

Should index funds be illegal?

by Guest Author
Matt Levine writes the Money Stuff daily column covering finance at Bloomberg. He was an editor of Dealbreaker, an investment banker at...

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18 Sep

Vanguard and BlackRock Dominate

by Barry Ritholtz
Source: Morningstar     The question that I have been getting a lot this year is this: “Why do you spend so much time...

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24 Jun

BBRG: SEC’s New ‘Best Interest’ Rule Is Far From Best for...

by Barry Ritholtz
SEC’s New ‘Best Interest’ Rule Is Far From Best for Investors The brokerage industry has again skirted the need to put investors...

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20 May

‘Concentration of Ownership’ is the Latest...

by Barry Ritholtz
Index Funds Don’t Hurt Consumers, But Monopolies Do Critics of passive investing blame the wrong thing for higher prices in some...

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15 May

BBRG: Index Funds Don’t Hurt Consumers, But Monopolies Do

by Barry Ritholtz
Index Funds Don’t Hurt Consumers, But Monopolies Do Critics of passive investing blame the wrong thing for higher prices in some...

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14 May

Why Would Indexers Become Anti-Competitive Monopolists?

by Barry Ritholtz
  I have previously discussed all of the ways active managers have been slagging low cost indexers, but here is a quick reminder for...

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25 Mar

What’s in Your Index Fund?

by Barry Ritholtz
Index Funds Sure Don’t Seem Like Libor Arguments that they lack transparency or may be subject to manipulation are largely off base....

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      Barry L. Ritholtz is co-founder, chairman, and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management LLC. Launched in...

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