Robin Wigglesworth: The Rise of Index Investing and the 'Renegades' Who Ushered It In

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 FT as a Gulf correspondent in June 2008. Before that, he was a Nordic economics and politics correspondent for Bloomberg News. Robin is a graduate of City, University of 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. Background Bio Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever History of Indexing “Louis Bachelier: An Underappreciated Revolutionary,” historyofdatascience.com, June 3, 2021. Paul Samuelson Efficient Market Hypothesis Rex Sinquefield Dean LeBaron Mac McQuown Jack Bogle John Brennan Dimensional Fund Advisors Dan Wheeler Larry Fink Eugene Fama Harry Markowitz Bill Sharpe Baby Bells Technology Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics “Can Stock Market Forecasters Forecast?” by Alfred Cowles, yale.edu, 1933. The Beginning of ETFs “Passive Attack: The Story of a Wall Street Revolution,” by Robin Wigglesworth, FT.com, Dec. 19, 2018. “All That Drama About Fixed-Income ETFs Was Overplayed,” by Robin Wigglesworth, FT.com, April 21, 2020. Nate Most