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How fooling around with ESG put Vanguard and BlackRock on countdown for still selling many ETFs as 'passive' indexing portfolios

The duopoly has near $10 trillion of passive indexes but not for long if red state AGs have their way

Author Oisin Breen June 1, 2023 at 2:39 AM
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Andrew Besheer: "...the majority of Vanguard’s indices would no longer be purely passive."
Brooke Southall and Keith Girard contributed to the editing of this article.

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