Mohamed El-Erian: Why passive investing makes less sense in the current environment

This is an investment world that will reward much greater selectivity and dynamic asset allocation

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Mohamed El-Erian: Why passive investing makes less sense in the current environment

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Mohamed El-Erian Should the vehicles that investors choose to place their money be a function of the investing environment? This question is not asked often enough by investment committees, which tend to focus on asset allocation issues, model portfolios and manager selection. Yet it is a question that has become a lot more important for generating high risk-adjusted returns, particularly given the massive shift of money from active to passive investment strategies in recent years. A simplified illustration of why this is...