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Hi, and welcome to the Longview. I'm Jeff Battack Chief Ratings Officer for Morningstar Research Services.

And I'm Christine Ben's Director of Personal Finance and Retirement Planning for Morningstar.

Our guest this week is Robin Wigglesworth. Robin is the Financial Times Global Finance correspondent based in Oslo, Norway.

He covers investing in markets with a focus on technological disruption and quantitative

investing.

He joined the F.T as a Gulf correspondent in June 2008.

Before that, he was a Nordic economics and politics correspondent for Bloomberg News.

Robert is a graduate of City University London and received his master's in history of international

relations from the London School of Economics

and Political Science. Robin is here to discuss his new book Trillions, How a Band of Wall Street

Renegades invented the index fund and changed finance forever. Robin, welcome to the Longview.

Thanks for having me on. It's our pleasure. So we're excited to talk about your book, which is called

Trillions, how a band of Wall Street Renegades invented the index fund and changed finance forever.

You said you wanted to write something that would help readers appreciate the rise of index funds

and understand their context in the broader history of investing. What made now the time to tell that

story? Well, I can tell you that writing a book under a pandemic was not optimal at all. But writing

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