What "The Graduate" teaches you about ETFs

Matthew Partridge looks at what investors can learn about exchange-traded funds from the film "The Graduate".

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The Graduate is a film based on the 1963 novella by Charles Webb. Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman, pictured) is a recent graduate who begins an affair with his older neighbour Mrs Robinson (Anne Bancroft). Meanwhile, Benjamin's parents and Mrs Robinson's husband encourage him to date Mrs Robinson's daughter Elaine (Katharine Ross). Although things initially go well, Benjamin is forced to tell Elaine the truth about his affair with her mother. Elaine seems willing to give the relationship another go but the Robinsons try to blackmail him into abandoning their daughter while trying to get her married off.

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Dr Matthew Partridge
Shares editor, MoneyWeek

Matthew graduated from the University of Durham in 2004; he then gained an MSc, followed by a PhD at the London School of Economics.

He has previously written for a wide range of publications, including the Guardian and the Economist, and also helped to run a newsletter on terrorism. He has spent time at Lehman Brothers, Citigroup and the consultancy Lombard Street Research.

Matthew is the author of Superinvestors: Lessons from the greatest investors in history, published by Harriman House, which has been translated into several languages. His second book, Investing Explained: The Accessible Guide to Building an Investment Portfolio, is published by Kogan Page.

As senior writer, he writes the shares and politics & economics pages, as well as weekly Blowing It and Great Frauds in History columns He also writes a fortnightly reviews page and trading tips, as well as regular cover stories and multi-page investment focus features.

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