The Asset Allocator: Elm Partners' Victor Haghani On 'Active Index Investing' (Podcast)
Jul. 26, 2019 5:00 AM ET2 Comments
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Summary
- Victor Haghani, founder of Elm Partners and previously a co-founder of the Long-Term Capital Management hedge fund, is an advocate of “active index investing."
- That is to say, he wants the passive advantages of low cost and efficiency, but with the ability to actively shift asset allocation as markets shift.
- This is Haghani’s solution to “the missing billionaires” problem, which holds the failure to harvest market returns, may be why today’s billionaires are fewer than population statistics would have foretold.
- Haghani discusses his own advisory business model at length.
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Victor Haghani, founder of Elm Partners and previously a co-founder of the Long-Term Capital Management hedge fund, advocates “active index investing.”
In this podcast interview (14:20), Haghani argues that marrying the low cost and efficiency of passive indexes to a rules-based asset-allocation discipline can provide investors with the growth they need at a fraction of the cost of active investing.
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