All of these factors, plus many more, confront the index fund manager.

FORBES: Passive Investing Doesn't Exist, But So What?

At any given time, perhaps 15, 000 freshly-minted fashion-design graduates around the world--plus many more uncredentialed dreamers working out of garages, Granny's attic or family rec rooms--have what they think are great ideas and no funding to bring them to market.

FORBES: Fashion's Hard Case

There are slow passages, and sequences that lean too hard on self-pity, but there are many more moments of crazy transcendence, plus a fart joke or two.

NEWYORKER: Black and Blue