I have mostly passive investments. I was thinking the other day: what if everyone had only passive investments? Wouldn’t this create incredibly high amount of systemic risk? Are we all sheep??

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Yes. If everyone indexed it would break things. But that will never happen. There will always be speculators who want to make a bet on a stock.

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I think there is some tipping point that comes before everyone being indexed, but no idea where that tipping point might be.

Keep in mind, just because many are buying passive investments, doesn’t mean they’re not frequently trading in and out of them. Also, the amount of passive funds relative to active is still rather small.

In equities within the US it’s ~45% of assets and around 30% for fixed Income in passsively managed funds.

The more passive investment there is, the bigger the opportunity of alpha with active investments, so this will likely regulate itself over time

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