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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Odd Lots Podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm Joe Wisenthal, and unfortunately is terrible news. My co

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Speaker 1: host and colleague Tracy Alloway is traveling this week and

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Speaker 1: couldn't join me for today's episode, so I'm already starting

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Speaker 1: the episode in a bad mood. Nonetheless, I will persist

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Speaker 1: because I'm very excited about today's topic. Probably one of

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Speaker 1: the biggest stories, themes, whatever you want to call it

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Speaker 1: in finance right now, and that is the rise, the

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Speaker 1: seemingly inexorable rise of the E t F exchange traded funds,

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Speaker 1: completely changing the way how people invest, being able to

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Speaker 1: invest in an index, or a strategy, or all kinds

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Speaker 1: of other stuff just simply as buying a stock, completely

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Speaker 1: revolutionizing the industry, striking terror in the hearts of many managers.

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Speaker 1: People say, E t F s arey this godsend that

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Speaker 1: have made investing much cheaper and simpler for the average person,

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Speaker 1: enabling more complex strategies. Other people say it's going to

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Speaker 1: be the end of capitalism and that it's the road

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Speaker 1: to Marxism. Nothing quite causes controversy like E t F.

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Speaker 1: Some people think they're going to be the source of

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Speaker 1: the next systemic risk. So there is literally an endless

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Speaker 1: amount of stuff we could talk about with e t

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Speaker 1: f s. And to do that, well, you have two

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Speaker 1: great guests who are also my colleagues. Joe Weber, he's

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Speaker 1: the editor in chief of Bloomberg Markets magazine, and Eric

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Intelligence. He's literally written the book about e t

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Speaker 1: today we're going to talk to both of them, or

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Speaker 1: I'm going to talk to both of them about how

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Speaker 1: E t F I've eaten the finance world and where

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Speaker 1: they're going next, how they're going to evolve, how they're

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Speaker 1: changing the industry every single day. So without further Ado,

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Speaker 1: let me welcome Joel and Eric. Thanks for having us,

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thanks to both of you. So Eric, I

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Speaker 1: want to start with you, but you know, both of

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Speaker 1: like to make sure that I introduced things correctly because

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Speaker 1: I think you know, I want to make sure that

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Speaker 1: I set it up. But when you look at the

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Speaker 1: after that, you're thinking about E T S all the time.

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Speaker 1: This is your life's work understanding this behemoth. Is that

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Speaker 1: a reasonable characterization of what's going on? Yeah? I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, I remember I was in Bloomberg Data back

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Speaker 1: never came back. I remember it was two thousand and six.

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Speaker 1: and it took me, you know, I can't remember exactly

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Speaker 1: realize that these things were going to be a big deal,

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Speaker 1: and I just saw an opportunity. So it was already

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Speaker 1: familiar with funds, and I think that when you're familiar

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Speaker 1: a game changer. So I definitely, um, I guess life's

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Speaker 1: I have been doing it for a decade. So you

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Speaker 1: mentioned something there that's very interesting, which is the g

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Speaker 1: l D e t F, which is the Spider Gold

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Speaker 1: It launched in late two thousand and four. More or less,

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Speaker 1: It holds gold. But it is revolutionary, isn't it Because

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Speaker 1: prior to the existence of this e t F, if

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Speaker 1: simple as buying a share of Microsoft. I think what

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Speaker 1: That is, everyone pays the same price. In mutual funds,

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Speaker 1: wholesale club. The thing that I wanted to kind of

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Speaker 1: point out, Eric was I was looking at flows here

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Speaker 1: about for me and Bloomberg markets, but there are obviously

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Speaker 1: enlightenment age, where investors are finally understanding the importance of cost.

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Speaker 1: They're getting better at asset allocation. But the next phase

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Speaker 1: So there's two things here that I think are really important.

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Speaker 1: look at oil, which you, as a retail investor, could

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Speaker 1: Explained to us what those are and why they've become

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Speaker 1: out for if Marxism happens, and that will be very interesting.

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Speaker 1: This is a great conversation because I feel like we

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Speaker 1: it's like we can't state it enough in a way.

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Speaker 1: How really like there are revolutionary technology as I see it,

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Speaker 1: and I think the you know, talking to you guys,

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Speaker 1: at Bloomberg Intelligence, thank you so much. That'll be it.

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Speaker 1: I you know, Tracy is not here this week, so

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Speaker 1: you know, I have no one to no one to

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Speaker 1: banter with like I normally would, but I really enjoyed

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Speaker 1: that conversation, so uh no, it was really great talking

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Speaker 1: to both of you and that has been another episode

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