Index providers have won big in the great migration from high-priced active management to low-cost index funds. But their fortunes are set to turn.
The same trend that brought index providers to prominence is now coming for their profits: Investors are in no mood to pay fees. Investors plowed a net $2.5 trillion into mutual funds and ETFs that charge 0.2 percent a year or less from 2007 to 2016, according to Broadridge, which tracks data from 80,000 funds globally. That’s more than twice what they invested in all other funds combined.
