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| 1960 || || The first theoretical model for an index fund is suggested by [[w:Edward J Renshaw|Edward Renshaw]] and [[w:Paul J Feldstein|Paul Feldstein]], both students at the {{w|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.<ref name="TMOTRM">{{cite book|last=Fox|first=Justin|title=The Myth of the Rational Market|pages=111–112|chapter=Chapter 7: Jack Bogle takes on the performance cult (and wins)|publisher=HarperCollins|location=USA|date=2011|isbn=978-0-06-059903-4}}</ref>
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| 1967 || || Qualidex Fund, Inc., a Florida Corporation, is chartered by Richard A. Beach.
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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>
