S7E9 - Trivia Flash S7E9 for Friday, October 16, 2026

We meet a Scottish author, solve a right triangle, visit exotic-sounding Funafuti, and explore passive index investing. 💡 John C. Bogle, Vanguard’s innovative founder, created the fund to make diversified, low-cost S&P 500 index investing accessible to individual investors, challenging the prevailing reliance on actively managed mutual funds. Although passive index strategies were already available to institutional investors, this approach brought them to ordinary retail investors through a mutual fund, seeking to match the market’s performance rather than beat it through individual stock selection.

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