iSectors’ CEO Vern Sumnicht would like to responds to a recent article in Investor’s Business Daily (by Dani Burger on March 14, 2017): |
“Trump Waiting Game Turns a Stock Picker’s Paradise Into ETF Land”
Sumnicht responds to this article (and commentary) as follows:
I doubt this is a short-term fad that will reverse anytime soon. Too many studies have simply provided empirical evidence that money managers (stock pickers) can’t outperform their benchmark indexes. ETFs are making it easier and cheaper to buy virtually any index. Especially in the large cap area where market inefficiencies are more difficult to find (i.e. S&P 500 index) and the index can be owned so inexpensively.
It isn’t too hard to understand why a manager would purchase an index ETF if he/she wants to own an allocation to large cap stocks. Knowing the cost of active money management verses an ETF and the questionable ability of active managers being able to outperform their benchmark indexes, I believe this trend of money managers using index ETFs will continue. As a matter of fact, I think this trend will grow in the future rather than revert to historical norms.
The premise that time and money is better spent on asset allocation research and analysis than on stock picking and market timing was the base that iSectors’ investment strategies were built on, more than 12 years ago.
This article supports iSectors’ belief that allocating portfolios among low correlated index ETFs is “The Future of Investing.”
Please comment below or contact Mr. Sumnicht for further information.
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