MSCI Archives | Wealthfront Blog Personal Finance & Investing Insights Wed, 12 Jan 2022 01:12:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-wave-logo-transparent-hi-res-500x500.png MSCI Archives | Wealthfront Blog 32 32 Indexing and the Curious Case of Alibaba ($BABA) https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/indexing-curious-case-alibaba-baba/ Tue, 21 Oct 2014 15:38:26 +0000 http://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=4821 It has now been 40 years since I published the first edition of A Random Walk Down Wall Street. The book, about to come out in its 11th edition, had a very simple message: Investors would be better off buying a broad-based index fund that simply held all the stocks in the market. As a […]

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]]> Inside The Black Box Of ETFs: Tracking Error May Cost More Than You Know https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/black-box-etfs-tracking-error-cost/ Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:06:54 +0000 /blog/?p=1314 When I was a kid growing up in Miami, I used to trade baseball cards. I thought I was very smart.  I amassed what I thought was a pretty nice collection and convinced my friends to go to baseball card shows around the city to sell off some of the crown jewels, including our vintage […]

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