Episode 330 - Davidson Heath: How Are Index Funds Affecting Financial Markets and Corporate Governance?

This is the Rational Reminder Podcast, a weekly reality check on sensible investing and financial decision making from two Canadians. We're hosted by me, Benjamin Felix, Portfolio Manager at PWL Capital, and Mark McGrath, Associate Portfolio Manager at PWL Capital. Episode three thirty. That is correct, episode three thirty, which is crazy in itself. Today we're joined by a fellow Canadian. who is currently living in Utah as a professor there.

He's an assistant professor of finance at the University of Utah's David Eckles School of Business. And it is Davidson Heath. Super interesting guy. He was a derivatives quant and trader prior to academia. He went to UBC out in British Columbia and also to Queens. And then he did an MBA at Chicago Booth.

PHD finance from USC. And now he's an academia and he's got some incredible research on a bunch of different topics, but a large theme of what we talked about is Index funds. And how they're impacting price efficiency of stocks, how they're impacting corporate governance. How they're impacting the liquidity of stocks.

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