Passive Bond Funds are Oxymorons

On the Money with Dynamic Funds

Dynamic’s Head of National Accounts, Lloyd Perruzza sits down with Professor Martijn Cremers, Dean of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, and acclaimed researcher in the field of money management, to discuss the findings of a new groundbreaking study that challenges conventional wisdom about bond investing. Professor Cremers highlights the challenges encountered by asset managers in passive index creation & replication, which has often led to significant negative deviations from their benchmarks & many active competitors. He also illustrates the material concerns related to "passive" bond management and sheds light on the concept of ‘positive performance persistence’, which helps explain how funds with high active share and historically proven capabilities are more likely to exhibit strong future performance.