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Episode 330 - Davidson Heath: How Are Index Funds Affecting Financial Markets and Corporate Governance?
What happens when index investing dominates the market? In this episode, we're joined by Davidson Heath, Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Utah David Eccles School of Business, to explore this question and its surprising answers. Davidson's research dives into the unintended impacts of passive investing, examining how it influences price stability, corporate governance, and even the way we define shareholder responsibility. He unpacks how index funds, while supporting price efficiency, may be weakening governance structures by reducing shareholder oversight, a shift that…
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