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The Wilshire 5000 is an index fund, which is kind of a bummer...it sounded like a cool financial robot.

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finance a la shmoop what is the Wilshire 5000 well it's an index as in index fund

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ticker W 5000 well the Wilshire 5000 had the top 5,000 most highly valued US [List of all the stocks in the Wilshire 5000]

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stocks in it when it launched you know by the late 90s the index had added

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another about 25 hundred names but it didn't change its name to Wilshire 7500 [Wilshire 7500 is crossed out and changed back to 5000]

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and it changed names as companies split and spun off and as the internet IPO [Companies dividing into two]

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boom forced a whole load of adds to the index there well then guess what a whole [Stocks flooding into the Wilshire 5000]

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bunch of bankruptcies in the dot-com era came along you know along with mergers

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and other financial dietary restrictions and they caused the size of the index to

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fall to the you know 3,700 names zone where it sits today the Wilshire 5000 [Number of names in the index shrinking]

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and yeah we don't know why then I'll just rename it the Wilshire 3,700 ish [Guy changing the sign as 3700ish appears and replaces the 5000]

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either well its distinguished from say the S&P 500 in that it covers a much [The S&P 500 is moved away]

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broader range of securities from mega cap companies like Apple all the way

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down to companies with just a few hundred million bucks in market cap so [Examples of the smaller cap companies are highlighted]

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when investors want to think about all stocks or at least the broadest swath of

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them they think Wilshire and then a number but they think Wilshire anyway

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and well we could give you roughly thirty seven hundred reasons why [Lady Gaga on stage]

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