The Long View 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
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.
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.