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title: Passive Investing with DAX
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/5228822/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
index: https://www.ml-quant.com/llms.txt
identifier: SSRN 5228822
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5228822
featured: 2025-04-30
citations: unknown
topic: Trading, Microstructure & Execution
---


# Passive Investing with DAX

The article highlights the growing popularity of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) among professional investors and private households due to their transparency, low costs, and continuous intraday trading.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5228822
- Identifier: SSRN 5228822
- Released: 2025-04-15
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 95 (2025-04-30): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2025-04-30/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Trading, Microstructure & Execution

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