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| 1974 || || The first multiclient index fund is probably launched by Batterymarch Financial Management.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Johnson |first1=Bruce |title=The Hedge Fund Fraud Casebook |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=3PbBzht9tG0C&pg=PA16&lpg=PA16&dq=%22Index+fund%22+%22in+1970..1979%22&source=bl&ots=iBkyK9tntT&sig=ACfU3U0ElhF9AIv0ib4Iiy-CvKMtcnCnMA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjbwNKui9PhAhWMKLkGHafEAowQ6AEwAnoECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Index%20fund%22%20%22in%201970..1979%22&f=false}}</ref>
 
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1960 The first theoretical model for an index fund is suggested by Edward Renshaw and Paul Feldstein, both students at the University of Chicago. While their idea for an "Unmanaged Investment Company" garners little support, it would start off a sequence of events in the 1960s that would lead to the creation of the first index fund in the next decade.[1]
1974 The first multiclient index fund is probably launched by Batterymarch Financial Management.[2]

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  1. Fox, Justin (2011). "Chapter 7: Jack Bogle takes on the performance cult (and wins)". The Myth of the Rational Market. USA: HarperCollins. pp. 111–112. ISBN 978-0-06-059903-4. 
  2. Johnson, Bruce. The Hedge Fund Fraud Casebook.