From FIIT Fiasco to Passive-Investing Powerhouse
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Fifty years after Vanguard's First Index Investment Trust launched with a disastrous roadshow and only about $11m raised, the fund helped spark the rise of passive investing, growing into roughly $1.7 trillion and illustrating how early skepticism, corporate politics, and market concentration shaped the evolution of finance.
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