The Mutual Fund That Ate Wall Street – Based on an Index Few People Know About

“Vanguard’s Total Stock Market Fund, at $1.3 trillion in assets, is a market unto itself – powered by an unassuming index called CRSP.”

Read the full article at the Wall Street Journal. 

How Academic Research Shaped an Industry Standard | CRSP’s Market Indexes were built on a foundation of rigorous research—now, Chicago Booth Magazine is telling that story. [...]
CRSP Market Indexes (CRSPMI) announces the market cap breakpoints and effective ranking dates for its March 2025 quarterly index rebalancing. [...]
The Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) is proud to announce the availability of its world-class financial and economic data products on Snowflake Marketplace. This integration gives clients direct [...]
CRSP US Total Market Index includes most of the new IPOs within five trading days of listing. This new report looks at the trends in IPOs and their impact on [...]

This article from the Wall Street Journal highlights a significant decline in publicly traded companies, noting a drop from over 7,000 in 1998 to fewer than 4,000 last year, as [...]

Using CRSP Market Indexes Methodology, CRSP Count™ tracks changes in the number of securities by market cap segments - Mega, Mid, Small and Micro - through time. [...]
We are excited to share that CRSP’s research datasets were used in ~2,100 research papers published in 2024. [...]
We are excited to share that CRSP’s research datasets were used in ~2,100 research papers published in 2024. [...]
Notable items with this release include: - December was rough for nearly all Indexes with Value and Smaller Caps taking the brunt of the hit - Mega and Large Growth [...]
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