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Vanguard
For fifty years, Vanguard turned a strange ownership structure and a suspicion of fees into an investing machine for ordinary savers. Its next act mixes index discipline with advice, AI tools and private markets - without losing the low-cost bargain that made it matter.
Hashdex
Hashdex is a crypto-focused asset manager that packages digital assets into regulated index funds and ETFs so ordinary investors can buy crypto through a brokerage account. Founded in Brazil in 2018 and now headquartered in the New York area, it co-developed the Nasdaq Crypto Index, launched the world's first crypto index ETF in 2021, and brought the first multi-asset spot crypto ETF (NCIQ) to US investors in 2025. The firm manages roughly $1 billion across products in nine countries.
Robin Wigglesworth
Robin Wigglesworth is the editor of FT Alphaville, the Financial Times' irreverent and free-to-read finance blog, which he runs from Oslo, Norway. A former Bloomberg Nordic economics correspondent turned Gulf war reporter turned global finance authority, Wigglesworth has carved out a rare niche: making the most technically forbidding corners of finance genuinely fun to read. His 2021 book Trillions - a definitive history of the index fund - became one of the FT's best books of the year, and his forthcoming A Fabulous Debt (September 2026) promises a sweeping history of the bond market. He is equal parts serious financial scholar and gleeful financial provocateur.