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CNBC: “The success of passive investing comes down to one thing, experts say: Fees”

By admin_45 in IN THE NEWS CNBC: “The success of passive investing comes down to one thing, experts say: Fees”

Excerpt from CNBC quoting DataTrek's Nick Colas' TV interview:

.... "DataTrek Research co-founder Nick Colas said in the same interview that there’s also a big-picture reason for investors’ push into passive funds.

“The biggest issue is, when the mutual funds were growing from 1980 to 1999, the S&P compounded at 18% a year,” the data specialist said. “Last 20 years, it’s been 6%. So, we’ve had a third of the returns, structurally, that we had from the early ’80s, and that’s why you need passive management, to not pay those high fees because you can’t afford it"....

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