John C. ("Jack") Bogle (b. May 8, 1929 in Verona, New Jersey)^[1] is the founder and retired CEO of The Vanguard Group. He attended Blair Academy on a full scholarship, earned his undergraduate degree from Princeton University in 1951, and attended evening and weekend classes at the University of Pennsylvania. Upon graduation he went to work for Walter L. Morgan at Wellington Management Company. May 8 is the 128th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (129th in leap years). ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Map of Verona Township in Essex County Verona is a township located in Essex County, New Jersey. ... Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the job of having the ultimate executive responsibility or authority within an organization or corporation. ... The Vanguard Group is an American investment management company that offers mutual funds and other financial products and services to individual investors and institutional investors in the United States and abroad. ... Blair Academy is a private, coeducational, secondary Boarding high school with an enrollment of about 430 students for grades nine through twelve. ... Princeton University is a coeducational private university located in Princeton, New Jersey in the United States of America. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... The University of Pennsylvania (or Penn[3][4]) is a private, nonsectarian research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... Walter L. Morgan (1898 - 1998) was the founder of the Wellington Fund, the first balanced mutual fund in the United States and one of the oldest surviving mutual funds. ... Wellington Management Company is a Boston, Massachusetts based investment management firm. ...

After a distinguished career culminating with the position of chairman at Wellington, he founded Vanguard in 1974. Under his leadership, the company grew to be the second largest mutual fund company in the world. Bogle has won a number of awards and distinctions, has served on the boards of various for-profit and non-profit organizations, and continues to be active in The Vanguard Group. 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...

Bogle is famous for his insistence, in numerous media appearances and in writing, on the superiority of index funds over traditional actively-managed mutual funds. An index fund or index tracker is a collective investment scheme that aims to replicate the movements of an index of a specific financial market. ... The central idea of a mutual fund is to enable investors to pool their money and place it under professional investment management. ...

On his popular ABC radio show Moneytalk, Bob Brinker frequently touts Bogle's philosophies on investing and recommends his books, particularly Common Sense on Mutual Funds: New Imperatives for the Intelligent Investor. The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ... Bob Brinker is the host of the ABC talk radio show Moneytalk, which has been on the air since 1986. ...

Bogle and his wife Eve had six children and are grandparents. They reside in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Bryn Mawr is in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania and Delaware County, Pennsylvania, just west of Philadelphia, along U.S. Highway Route 30 (Lancaster Avenue). ...

Books

• Bogle on Mutual Funds: New Perspectives for the Intelligent Investor (McGraw-Hill, 1993), ISBN 1-55623-860-6
• Common Sense on Mutual Funds: New Imperatives for the Intelligent Investor (John Wiley & Sons, 2000), ISBN 0-471-39228-6
• John Bogle on Investing: The First 50 Years (McGraw-Hill, 2000), ISBN 0-07-136438-2
• Character Counts: The Creation and Building of The Vanguard Group (McGraw-Hill, 2002) ISBN 0-07-139115-0
• The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism (Yale University Press, 2005), ISBN 0-300-10990-3

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• Jack Bogle's Blog Site
• Biography at Bogle Financial Markets Research Center
• Remarks before the Harvard Club of Boston, January 14, 2003
• Venture Voice podcast interview, February 23, 2006

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