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🗓️ 12 November 2021
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Robin Wigglesworth, who is the global finance correspondent for the Financial Times and author of the just-published “Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever.”
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0:28.9 | This week on the podcast I have a special guest, his name is Robin Wiekelsworth and he |
0:39.6 | has a brand new book out called Trillians. |
0:43.1 | All about the rise of passive investing and indexing. |
0:46.9 | I thought I knew a lot about this space having covered Vanguard, BlackRock, State Street, |
0:52.9 | Interviewed, all of the CEOs of Vanguard, BlackRock, Jim Ross from State Street, Jack |
1:00.4 | Bogle, all the DFA folks. |
1:04.2 | I feel like I really know this space and I learned a ton of new stuff from the book. |
1:10.6 | It's deeply researched, he spent a lot of time doing a deep dive into the area. |
1:16.6 | I was kind of surprised by a number of things. |
1:19.8 | If you're remotely interested in the rise of passive and indexing and all the academic |
1:25.2 | background and how that translated into the real world into the practice of investing, |
1:32.1 | well I think you're going to like this book and you're going to like this conversation |
1:36.8 | with no further ado, my interview with the FT's Robin Wiekelsworth. |
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1:50.6 | My special guest this week is Robin Wiekelsworth. |
1:53.7 | He is the Financial Times Global Finance correspondent. |
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2:04.1 | including technological disruption and quantitative investing. |
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