Extremely disappointing workplace pension

Marcon

Cus said:

Retail continue to move flow into passive index tracker funds, and are told to not sell when it dips. Less people are therefore valuation driven, and index trackers just have to keep on investing based on market capitalisation, creating a loop of onwards and upwards.  How will it break?

Sounds as if you're quoting from something - and in rather strange English. Not quite sure what point you're making?

JohnWinder

‘Retail continue to move flow into passive index tracker funds, and are told to not sell when it dips. Less people are therefore valuation driven, and index trackers just have to keep on investing based on market capitalisation, creating a loop of onwards and upwards.  How will it break? ‘

Yes, and it will break when the clever active investors decide the securities in the tracker funds are over-valued, pile out of them and push valuations down to better levels. So, my request to them is, ‘get on with it’ so valuations are more realistic. Whereas what is actually happening is the clever active investors are pushing stocks like Nvidia up to thrice their price in one year; were it only the passive investors in the market all stocks would go up at the same rate. But no, someone’s gone crazy with Nvidia and it’s the active traders. A pox on them.

Cus

I agree, but I think a number of actives (hedge funds) have been burnt by shorting certain stocks in the last few years based on valuations, but they just keep on rising.  

Cus

Marcon said:

Cus said:

Retail continue to move flow into passive index tracker funds, and are told to not sell when it dips. Less people are therefore valuation driven, and index trackers just have to keep on investing based on market capitalisation, creating a loop of onwards and upwards.  How will it break?

Sounds as if you're quoting from something - and in rather strange English. Not quite sure what point you're making?

It was a reply to @Hoenir regarding the endless rise.  I was not quoting, just quick typing 

pieroabcd

I've reinvested 47% of that pot into an US equity fund managed by the same company that has delivered very well over the years. 
There isn't much in that pension pot, that makes me feel less anxious.
Fingers crossed