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Trillions : how a band of Wall Street renegades invented the index fund and changed finance for ever

Wigglesworth, Robin2021
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In Trillions, Financial Times journalist Robin Wigglesworth unveils the vivid secret history of an invention Wall Street wishes was never created, bringing to life the characters behind its birth, growth, and evolution into a world-conquering phenomenon. This engrossing narrative is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand modern finance-and one of the most pressing financial uncertainties of our time.
Author:
Imprint:
[London] : Penguin Business, 2021.
Collation:
xiii, 336 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Buffett's bet -- The Godfather -- Taming the demon of change -- The quantifiers -- Bastions of unorthodoxy -- The hedgehog -- Bogle's folly -- Vanguard rising -- New dimensions -- Bionic betas -- The spider's birth -- WFIA 2.0 -- Larry's gambit -- Deal of the century -- Purdey shotguns -- The new captains of capital -- This is water -- Our new corporate overlords -- Epilogue.
ISBN:
9780241422069 (pbk)
Dewey class:
332.6327
Language:
English
BRN:
717401
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