ETFs Are Eating the Financial World and They're Not Done Yet
Odd Lots
Bloomberg
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
By now, almost everyone in financial markets is familiar with ETFs (exchange-traded funds), and how they allow investors to move quickly in and out of a basket of stocks with a few clicks. But perhaps people don't realize quite how revolutionary they are, and how much of an impact they've had on the financial system. On this week's episode we talk to Eric Balchunas, an ETFs analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence and Joel Weber, the editor-in-chief of Bloomberg Markets magazine about how extraordinary ETFs are, how far they've come, and how they're about to evolve and get even more gigantic.
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| 1:36.4 | Probably one of the biggest stories, themes, whatever you want to call it in finance right now and that is the rise the seemingly |
| 1:45.9 | inexorable rise of the E.T.F. Exchange traded funds, completely changing the way how people invest, being able to invest in an index |
| 1:56.6 | or a strategy or all kinds of other stuff just as simply as buying a stock completely revolutionizing the industry, striking terror in the hearts of many managers. |
| 2:09.0 | People will say ETS are this godsend that have made investing much cheaper and simpler for the average person enabling more complex strategies. |
| 2:18.0 | Other people say it's going to be the end of capitalism and that it's the road to Marxism nothing quite causes controversy like |
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