1. Introduction -- 2. The impact of index design on asset management.-3. Pros and cons of Active management -- 4. Searching for market drivers: Factor investing -- 5. Hybrids increasingly blurring active/passive line -- 6. The need for a change: Sustainable finance -- 7. The next challenge: ESG...

This article aims to examine the role of objects in the transformation of logics (Thornton & Ocasio, 2008) at the practice level. In particular, it explores how financial actors use, transform and are constrained by their ‘market devices' – defined as a range of instruments, models and tools...