ETFs: What You Need To Know
Suze Orman's Women & Money (And Everyone Smart Enough To Listen)
Suze Orman Media
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🗓️ 26 April 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
For this Suze School, we get a lesson in the history of Exchange Traded Funds, known as ETFs. Suze talks about what led to their creation in the 1990s, why they are so popular today and why she likes them better than Mutual Funds. Plus, Suze rolls out a new way for you to ask your question to the podcast.
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| 0:32.7 | April 26, 2020s. Welcome, 2006. Welcome everybody to the Women and Money podcast, and everybody smart enough to |
| 0:45.3 | listen. Susie O here, and today is Susie's school. But before we begin, obviously, take out |
| 0:51.9 | your little notebooks, Susie notebooks. And I just want to say thank you |
| 0:56.2 | to the almost 85,000 people that signed up to take the webinar last Thursday. And just now all of you |
| 1:06.0 | will be automatically signed up in the second part, which will be the end of May, the first week |
| 1:12.8 | or so in June. I don't know exactly one yet. It will be with FITZE, and it is a webinar. I am telling |
| 1:19.6 | you, it's just going to be the two of us this time, that you do not want to miss out on. |
| 1:26.2 | That's all I'm going to say to you, and there you go. But one of the topics |
| 1:31.4 | that we will be talking about on that webinar are exchange traded funds. And the other day, |
| 1:39.6 | I was talking to my really good friend, this brilliant lawyer. And I was talking to her and I mentioned |
| 1:47.7 | about an ETF. She said, what's an ETF? I said, what are you talking about? She said, |
| 1:53.0 | what's an ETF? I said, an ETF is an exchange traded fun. And she said, I have no idea what that is. And I'm like, oh, that's interesting. |
| 2:04.5 | And then I realized that it's possible that many of you don't know what an exchange traded fund is. |
| 2:13.3 | And it's also something that all of you need to know what it is and why. As time goes on here, |
| 2:22.1 | investing goes on, it may be the answer to your investment concerns. You know, when I first started |
| 2:31.0 | writing books, my first book came out in 1995 called You've Earned It, Don't |
| 2:36.3 | Lose It. Do you know that they had maybe one or two exchange traded funds back then? By 2001, |
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