#109 Robin Wigglesworth (Short) - The Magic Of Index Funds, Writing Trillions, And The Few Investors Who Can Beat The Market

Robin Wigglesworth is the Financial Times’ global finance correspondent, and author of Trillions, the newly released book on the past, present and future of passive investing.

In this episode we discuss

- How Robin ended up in FT, after several lucky breaks and serendipity. 

- Why he decided to write a book about the rise of index funds.

- The few investors Robin believes can beat the index game.

- His best advice for people trying to learn about the financial markets

- And how he sees the future of index and ETF’s

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