MiB: Robin Wigglesworth on the Rise of Indexing
This week, we speak with Robin Wigglesworth, the global finance correspondent for the Financial Times. He is the...
China Tech Sector Whackage
Earlier this month, I asked How Much is the Rule of Law Worth to Markets? It’s a challenge to quantify that query...
Impermanence: The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change
Every Company In and Out of the Dow Jones Industrial Average Since 1928 Source: Visual Capitalist I hope you did not...
Revenue Share / Mutual Fund Supermarket Shelf Space
Source: Distribution Channels for Mutual Funds Retail Sales Today’s discussion is a little “inside...
Index Investors and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad...
Cash panickers: Coronavirus market volatility Source: Vanguard Of all the silly criticisms of passive index-based investing...
MiB: How to Manage 4 Trillion Dollars
How do you track trillions of dollars in indices and Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) accurately and precisely? That is one part of the...
Transcript: Salim Ramji
The transcript from this week’s, MiB: BlackRock’s Salim Ramji, is below. You can stream and download our full...
MiB: BlackRock’s Salim Ramji
This week, we speak with BlackRock Senior Managing Director Salim Ramji, Head of iShares Index and ETFs. Ramji’s division manages...
Criticism of Concentrated Index Risk Are Off Base
Top-Heavy Stock Indexes Are Nothing to Fear It’s not rare for a small group of equities such as Apple, Microsoft and Amazon.com to...
More Thoughts on Concentrated Index Risk
Source: JPM Chase “Stop trying to put 10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound bag.” I had an editor who was very fond of...