Time: All day Venue: Stationers' Hall, Ave Maria Lane, London EC4M 7DD United Kingdom
Organisers: Jon Danielsson (SRC, LSE), Kevin James (FCA, SRC), Dimitri Vayanos (FMG, PWC, LSE)
Speakers: Matteo Aquilina (FCA), Rudi Fahlenbrach (Swiss Institute of Finance), Jill Fisch (U Penn), Mireia Giné (IESE), Kevin James (FCA, SRC), Robert MacKay (Warwick), Daniel Mittendorf (FCA), John Morley (Yale), Emilio Osambela (FRB), Lasse Pedersen (Copenhagen), Edwin Schooling Latter (FCA), Amarjeet Singh (SEBI), Robert Stambaugh (Wharton), Grant Turner (BIS), Dimitri Vayanos (FMG, PWC, LSE)
To perform at full potential, the economy requires efficient and effective financial markets that operate at minimum feasible social cost.
Actively managed funds play a crucial role in bringing about market efficiency and effectiveness, but only as a by-product of their costly efforts to out-perform the market. Passive investment funds compete for investors by offering low-cost investment options, but they do so in part by taking market efficiency and effectiveness as given. Consequently, it is unclear if market forces alone will lead to the optimal balance of efficiency, effectiveness, and cost.
In this two-day conference we will explore these issues, focusing upon:
The rise of passive investing
How market efficiency arises: The role of active funds, passive funds and benchmarking
Do large investment funds affect competition between the firms in which they invest?
Manager skill and fund fees in equilibrium
The impact of passive funds on corporate governance
The implications of passive funds for financial stability
Materials available for download
Programme
Photo gallery
The Rise of Passive Investing
The Implications of Passive Investing for Securities Markets: Vladyslav Sushko (BIS) and Grant Turner (BIS) - slides
The Asset Management Industry in India – An Overview: Amarjeet Singh (SEBI) - slides
The Evolution of the Active/Passive Split and the Cost of Price Discovery in the UK: Daniel Mittendorf (FCA) - slides
Market Efficiency: A Peek Behind the Curtain
Who Trades?: Kevin James (FCA, SRC), Andrea Pirrone (FCA, SRC) and Claudia Robles-Garcia (FCA, LSE) - slides
Asset Management and Market Efficiency
Active and Passive Investing: Nicolae Garleanu (UC Berkeley) and Lasse Pedersen (Copenhagen) - slides
Asset Management Contracts and Equilibrium Prices: Andrea Buffa (Boston U), Dimitri Vayanos (LSE), and Paul Woolley (LSE) - slides
Common Share Ownership and Market Competition
Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives: Miguel Anton (IESE), Florian Ederer (Yale), Mireia Giné (IESE), and Martin Schmalz (Michigan) - slides
Keynote Speech
Skill and Fees in Active Management: Robert Stambaugh (Wharton) - paper
Passive Investing and Corporate Governance
Passive Investors: Jill Fisch (U Penn), Assaf Hamdani (Tel Aviv), and Steven Solomon (Berkeley) - slides
Do Exogenous Changes in Passive Institutional Ownership Affect Corporate Governance and Firm Value: Cornelius Schmidt (Norwegian School of Economics) and Rudi Fahlenbrach (EPFL and Swiss Finance Institute) - slides
Too Big To Be An Activist: John Morley (Yale) - slides
Stewardship: A Regulatory Perspective
Promoting Effective Stewardship: Edwin Schooling Latter (FCA) - speech
Improving Market Efficiency By Improving Market Design
Quantifying the High-Frequency ‘Arms Race’: A Simple New Methodology and Estimates: Matteo Aquilina (FCA), Eric Budish (Chicago), and Peter O’Neill (FCA)
Asset Management and Financial Stability
The Shift From Active to Passive Investing: Potential Risks to Financial Stability?: Kenechukwu Anadu (FRBB), Mathias Kruttli (FRB), Patrick McCabe (FRB), Emilio Osambela (FRB), and Chaehee Shin (FRB) - slides
Dynamics of Value-Tracking In Financial Markets: Nicholas Beale (Sciteb), Richard Gunton (Sciteb), Kutlwano Bashe (Warwick), Heather Battey (Imperial), Robert MacKay (Warwick)
The conference was co-hosted with the Financial Conduct Authority, Securities and Exchange Board of India, Financial Markets Group and the Paul Woolley Centre for the Study of Capital Market Dysfunctionality.
