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It’s index investing, which has smoked the active managers virtually since it was popularized by John Bogle and his Vanguard Group in the mid-1970s.

India's benchmark Nifty 50 share index, which tracks the country's top 50 publicly traded companies, is on its longest losing streak in 29 years, declining for five straight months.

Worries about a trade war and a slowdown in the global economy Tuesday led to the Standard & Poor’s 500 index falling 1.2%, the Dow Jones industrial average sliding 1.6% and the Nasdaq composite slipping 0.4%.

The index is published by the Institute for Economics and Peace, a think-tank dedicated to researching global peace and conflict.

The Nasdaq Composite also dropped 2.6% while the S&P 500’s broad index saw its worst day since December, falling by 1.8%.