Index Funds: Launching the Revolution of Modern Investing

from Index Funds: Launching the Revolution of Modern Investing held on December 4, 2019

Mac McQuown is known as one of the architects of the modern investing system. In the early 1970s, he departed from prevailing Wall Street practices by assembling a team of six future Nobel Laureates to create a new type of investment: the index fund. Join McQuown as he presents an insider’s view of the events that led to the creation of the index fund. Learn what he and his team have created since those early days, other advances that have occurred since and what might be coming next.

MLF ORGANIZER

Denise Michaud

NOTES

MLF: Grownups

Speakers

John “Mac” McQuown

Co-Founder and Director, Dimensional Fund Advisors

Rick Raybin

CEO, Lifetime Capital Group LLC; Author, Investing 3.0: What the Creators of Index Funds Discovered and How to Profit From It

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