No Looking Back For Passive

At some point in the next nine months a historic milestone will be passed. More than half of managed equity assets in the US will be run on a passive basis (for global equities the figure is 38%). At the current rate we forecast that this will happen sometime in January 2018. We don't think that there will ever be any reversion back past this point, so from here on the majority of equity AUM in the US will be passive. In this short note we consider what this means. That's from Bernstein's Inigo Fraser Jenkins and team.