The Wall Street Renegades who Changed Finance Forever (with Robin Wigglesworth)

Episode 12

December 15 2022

42 minutes

Robin Wigglesworth, the FT journalist and author of Trillions, joins us from Oslo to discuss the revolutionists who invented index funds, and the consequent threats to capitalism posed by the spread of passive investing.

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