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How Passive Investing May Distort Market Flows

Bridge Alternatives · Talk · 47 min · 2020 · YouTube title: A new look at active vs passive (Michael Green)
Why it's here

HN points to it in investing threads as an argument that passive index flows distort markets and could precede a crash.

What it covers

Michael Green of Thiel Macro presents a thesis that the growth of passive investing distorts how markets price new money flows. He ties short-term market behavior to longer-term demographic cycles and its effects on valuations and volatility.