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The Russell Index is a series of indices that tracks the progress of stocks in a given basket. Aw. We were hoping it tracked adorable Jack Russell Terriers, or something...

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What is the Russell Index? Well it's an index like a stock

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index abroad one the Russell is actually a series of

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various indices that track the progress or lack thereof of stocks in a given

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sector or basket like many indices the Russell index is actually owned and/or

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managed by the footsie or f TSI based in London that's the financial time stock [sky scraper in London]

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index F TSI footsie and the indices come in all kinds of flavors with an example [ice cream counter]

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right here where you can see funds with catchy titles like the Russell 3000

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growth and the Russell 1000 value and the Russell mid cap yeah the Russell

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micro cap and the anemic Russell top 200 it's only 200 companies there and that

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top 200 yeah no relation to top gear the video Yelp of cars alright well why do [Top Gear website with Nissan Leaf charging]

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we need yet another set of indices well we already have the Vanguard series

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featuring the famous ticker s py or S&P 500 we have the Wilshire 5000 which

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isn't really 5000 and we have a bunch of others each of which give market

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insights from slightly different lenses like that and that and yeah that well [microscope, magnifying glass]

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the answer because investors are willing to pay for those insights and/or invest [money passing hands]

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in those index funds and will likely keep doing so until there's no more [money piling up]

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money to be made at which point everything gets renamed to being an out

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