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Investing 2: Index Funds & The Bet

Planet Money Summer School

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The World's First Index Fund

An index fund is just mindlessly tracking a stock index. Bogel figured he would just create this super simp index fund that people could invest in. The investment firms go back to bogel and they say, nobody wants this thing. Also. Investors don't really like this idea.

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