What is an index? What started out as a way of measuring the size of a market became an investment methodology. Is passive investing now so big that ETFs are starting to influence the market? Tamas Calderwood joined me to discuss:
· Financial advice and the new generation of emerging advisers
· Who calculates the indexes we track?
· Tesla and the Observer Effect
· The soft dictatorship of the index
· The role of price discovery in more passive markets
Link to the blog post https://www.sharesforbeginners.com/blog/tamas
Tamas has written an article further exploring the topics raised in the podcast: https://einvest.com.au/insights/the-observer-effect-shares-for-beginners-podcast/
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