Capital inflows into passive funds reward yesterday’s winners...

 and more especially the big index constituents.

It is a momentum or trend following strategy that helps ensure that prices are a poor reflection of fundamental value while reinforcing any tendency to market bubbles as fresh money pours in.

We are a long way from a world in which stock prices reflect fundamentals, where people invest to generate a straightforward income to pay a pension or where investors routinely try to buy low and sell high. 

Meantime, the goal of market efficiency appears painfully elusive.

John Plender Ft 11 June 2022

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