Exchange traded funds gone wild

From quiet beginnings, there's now an ETF for everything

Exchange traded funds had such a humble start, it's hard to believe what a crazy melange they've become.

Back in 1993, the Standard & Poor's Deposit Receipt (SPDR, pronounced Spider) launched, giving investors a fresh way to invest in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index. And, for a long time, ETFs matched this kind of simple, index-tracking investing.

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