Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever
Robin Wigglesworth
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Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever
Robin Wigglesworth
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Pan
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... a magisterial, delightfully written history offering up portraits of the academic scribblers and entrepreneurial practitioners who created the index-fund revolution. It also contains common-sense wisdom that will benefit all investors.
... spirited.
Wigglesworth invokes each contributor’s humanity as well as their genius. The tangled pathway leading to the establishment of the index fund tracks nuances and power plays that are most fully understood by industry insiders. In Trillions, the complexities are laid bare in comprehensible language with insight into the long-game contributions of so many individuals, whose parts comes to fruition only decades after the initial ideas are generated, shared, and continue their evolution. With the feel of a thriller, Trillions illuminates the index fund and its place in the world of financial investment. A natural selection for business school collections; public libraries can expect demand both from patrons within the finance industry and those seeking to better understand how that world works..