Passive Aggressive
What share of the US equity market's passively owned?
Non sequitur, I know. Every article's supposed to be an election article until the civil war's over.
No, but seriously, I do a flows update every week, and at some point a few updates ago, a reader asked about the persistence of outflows from mutual funds and the juxtaposition with never-ending inflows to ETFs. That contrast is, of course, a corollary of the secular active-to-passive shift.
In his latest, Goldman's David Kostin tossed out
Some “passive” ETFs have fairly high portfolio turnover rates giving them some of the characteristics of an actively managed fund (eg USMV or SCHD). For the analysis above, are ETFs like these considered “passive”?