Masters in Business · Friday, July 24, 2026
Lori Heinel believes that indexing, particularly in fixed income, has significant growth potential, despite claims that indexing is saturated. She points to the retail investor's increasing adoption of ETFs and the potential for growth in areas like emerging debt and high-yield bonds as key drivers.
“Well, I think there's still lots of room for indexing to run, because if you think about places like fixed income, we've only started to scratch the surface relative to what you see on the equity side of things.”
“So increasingly or even seeing quote unquote exotic fixed income things like emerging debt, things like high yield, which we've had index products for quite a long time, become much more adopted by clients globally because they see that as a great way to get access again to a market in a way that they can really understand the risk and manage it within the portfolio context.”
“So I think there's still plenty of room for indexing to run.”