Robin Wigglesworth is the Financial Times' global finance corrospondent based in Oslo, Norway. He focuses on the biggest trends reshaping markets, investing and finance across the world. He was previously the FT's US markets editor, spearheading its coverage of financial markets and asset management across the Americas, deputy head of FastFT, capital markets correspondent, and Gulf correspondent. Before joining the FT, he worked at Bloomberg News covering Nordic economics and politics.
The simplest, humblest ideas are sometimes the ones that turn the
world upside down. Grab some popcorn and take a front row seat,
because Robin Wigglesworth has an astonishing story to tell you
*Tim Harford, author of How to Make the World Add Up*
Trillions is both entertaining and educational. Wigglesworth
explores one of the most important modern-day financial innovations
and explains its broad impact on financial markets, investors,
global economies and even capitalism. A terrific read and a topic
that will become more important as passive investments increasingly
dominate markets. Wigglesworth brings what could be a dull topic to
full life
*Gregory Zuckerman, special writer at the Wall Street Journal and
author of The Man Who Solved the Market*
As only the incomparable Robin Wigglesworth could do, in Trillions
he turns the often obscured history of the investment industry into
a rollicking great yarn, replete with admirable heroes, political
infighting, fascinating diversions and unexpected triumphs
*William Cohan, special correspondent at Vanity Fair and author of
The Last Tycoons*
Very few writers can tell a great story and help us understand a
big idea. Robin Wigglesworth is one of those rare journalists who
can. His history of the index fund is required reading for anyone
who wants to know where the financial markets have come, and where
they are going. It's also just a wonderfully engaging romp through
the last half century of market news
*Rana Foroohar, global business columnist at the Financial Times
and author of Don't Be Evil*
This is a tour de force. Passive investing has become a bedrock of
finance but very few investors understand where and how this
practice emerged from and how it is changing markets in a way that
impacts us all. Wigglesworth has turned this arcane tale into an
easy-to-understand and fun read, full of lively characters and
little known details of how finance really works today. Anyone who
wants to understand modern investing should read it
*Gillian Tett, chair of the editorial board and US editor-at-large
at the Financial Times and author of Fool's Gold*
A real tour de force, this engaging and thought-provoking book
brings together several historical threads - from Warren Buffett's
famous hedge fund bet to the 'Manhattan Project of financial
economics' - to show how passive investing and index funds have
evolved into an ETF phenomenon that has 'humble[d] the investment
industry ... reshape[d] finance forever,' and now poses risks for
future financial stability and economic wellbeing
*Mohamed El Erian, Chief Economic Adviser of Allianz and author of
When Markets Collide*
The greatest change in investing in the last 100 years is brought
to life like never before. A page turner!
*Fred Grauer, former CEO of Wells Fargo Investment Advisors*
Robin Wigglesworth is one of the most lucid and exciting
journalists writing about finance today. Trillions tackles the
enormous changes that have swept the investing world through the
stories of its charismatic innovators. It's a fascinating journey
and a crucial book for anyone trying to understand the financial
markets
*Bradley Hope, writer at Project Brazen and author of Billion
Dollar Whale*
A fascinating account of an investment revolution. Trillions should
be read not just by millionaires, billionaires and trillionaires,
but by anyone who has a pension plan, individual savings account or
money invested, directly or indirectly, in the stock market
*Ian Fraser, Literary Review*
A magisterial, delightfully written history offering up portraits
of the academic scribblers and entrepreneurial practitioners who
created the index-fund revolution. It also contains common-sense
wisdom that will benefit all investors.
*The Wall Street Journal*
Wigglesworth has written an important book. Passive has mostly been
a boon, but its impact in future may not be so benevolent.
Investors, companies and regulators need to apprehend the water
they are swimming in
*Patrick Hosking, Financial Editor of The Times*
Paul Volcker once quipped that the greatest innovation in finance
in recent decades was the humble ATM. Not so, argues the FT global
finance correspondent who makes the case for the index fund as the
instrument that democratised investing, upended established
structures and changed capitalism. Told through the stories of the
group of radical nerds who made it all happen
*Best books of 2021, Financial Times*
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