John C. Bogle
Popularised the index fund and argued for long-term investing over speculation and for cutting fees as far as possible. Died in 2019.
He built the institution and wrote the primary-source case for low-cost indexing that every later index advocate builds on.
11 books of their own · 215 letters · 43 articles · 16 appearances
Start here
John C. Bogle · 1992
Newcomen Society address, short monograph
John C. Bogle · 1993
The earlier, more instructional Bogle book on fund selection.
Recommended by: Mr. Money Mustache
John C. Bogle · 1999
Vanguard's founder on costs, turnover and fund structure.
“Wonderful Book. I highly recommend all of John Bogle's writings to any investor.” — Mohnish Pabrai
Source: Mohnish's Bookshelf — Books on Investing & Capital Allocation, entry 50
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Jason Zweig and 3 others
John C. Bogle · 2000
Fifty years of speeches and essays arguing for low-cost index funds.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Mr. Money Mustache
John C. Bogle · 2002
Bogle's speeches to Vanguard staff over its first 25 years, with commentary.
Recommended by: Mr. Money Mustache
John C. Bogle · 2005
How managers and middlemen took value from the owners of American companies.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Mr. Money Mustache
John C. Bogle · 2007
After costs, most investors trail the market, so hold a low-cost index fund.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, The Barefoot Investor and 4 others
John C. Bogle · 2008
Recommended by: Mr. Money Mustache
John C. Bogle · 2012
How speculation displaced long-term investment in markets, shown in turnover data.
“I also recommend The Clash of the Cultures by Jack Bogle” — Warren Buffett
Source: 2012 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter, p. 21
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Warren Buffett and 1 other
John C. Bogle · 2018
Founder account of Vanguard, the mutual structure applied to fund management.
Recommended by: Mr. Money Mustache
| The Modern Corporation and the Public Interest | John Bogle argues, before the PCAOB, that the modern corporation should serve the public interest, echoing Berle and Means's 1932 book. | 2017 | ||
| Acceptance Remarks, CME Group Melamed-Arditti Innovation Award | John Bogle accepts the CME Group Melamed-Arditti Innovation Award with John McQuown, honouring the invention of the index fund. | 2017 | ||
| Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia | John Bogle traces the mutual fund industry from Boston's Puritan trustees to his own Philadelphia Quaker values, starting from a 1949 Fortune article. | 2017 | ||
| Surviving Defeat, Surviving Victory | John Bogle reflects on indexing's victory since his 1999 FIASI Hall of Fame speech and the risks that success brings. | 2017 | ||
| Numbers Games — Reflections on the Uses and Abuses of Big Data | John Bogle reflects on the uses and abuses of big data in investing, in a keynote to the Journal of Investment Management. | 2017 | ||
| Reflections on a Revolution | John Bogle tells the CFA Institute that index funds are a revolution that is disrupting investing as innovation has books, retail and music. | 2017 | ||
| The Road Less Traveled | John Bogle recounts the road less traveled from 1974 to founding Vanguard and its 500 Index Fund. | 2017 | ||
| Bogleheads 15 presentation | John Bogle's Bogleheads 15 slides show that 91% of Vanguard's assets have high relative predictability, 72% of them in index funds. | 2016 | ||
| Saving a Company, Building a Colossus, Preserving a Culture: Reflections on the History of Vanguard | John Bogle marks 65 years in the fund industry by reflecting on saving a company, building Vanguard and preserving its culture. | 2016 | ||
| Remarks on Receiving the 2016 Bob Edgar Public Service Achievement Award | John Bogle accepts Common Cause Pennsylvania's 2016 Bob Edgar Public Service Achievement Award. | 2016 | ||
| Fiduciary Duty in an Age of Consumerism | John Bogle welcomes the Department of Labor's April 2016 fiduciary rule and argues fiduciary duty must apply across investment advice. | 2016 | ||
| David and Goliath: Who Wins the Quantitative Battle? | John Bogle tells the Q Group's 50th anniversary seminar how index funds, the David, beat active managers, the Goliath. | 2016 | ||
| For Distinguished Service to Humanity | John Bogle accepts the National Institute of Social Sciences' 2015 Gold Medal for distinguished service to humanity. | 2015 | ||
| Bogleheads 14 presentation | John Bogle's Bogleheads 14 slides, opening with Warren Buffett's 1993 praise of his book, make the case for low-cost index investing. | 2015 | ||
| The Annals of Vanguard — The Story of PRIMECAP Fund | John Bogle tells how Vanguard hired PRIMECAP in 1984 to run a new growth fund, and the fund's record since. | 2015 | ||
| Putting Investors First | John Bogle tells the CFA Society of Philadelphia that putting investors first requires a true fiduciary standard across the fund industry. | 2015 | ||
| The Mutual Fund Industry Today: Conflicts, Conflicts Everywhere | John Bogle argues the fund industry is riddled with conflicts, and that as active funds look more like index funds, ETFs make indexing more like active trading. | 2015 | ||
| The Mutual Fund Industry Today (slides) | John Bogle's slides show how compounding costs erode wealth over a 50-year investing life, and how many funds have failed. | 2015 | ||
| Values, Ethics, and Structure in Finance | John Bogle discusses values, ethics and structure in finance at a Georgetown Law symposium on public-private partnerships. | 2014 | ||
| Memo celebrating Vanguard’s 40th anniversary | John Bogle marks Vanguard's 40th anniversary, recalling its 1974 founding despite doubts it would survive. | 2014 | ||
| Testimony before the Finance Committee of the U.S. Senate | John Bogle testifies to the Senate Finance Committee on the U.S. retirement system and how to strengthen it. | 2014 | ||
| Financial Reform: Investment Standards and Ethical Values | John Bogle calls for financial reform built on investment standards and ethical values. | 2014 | ||
| Financial Management: Profession or Business? | John Bogle asks the CFA Society of Philadelphia whether financial management is a profession or a business. | 2013 | ||
| Big Money in Boston — The Commercialization of the Mutual Fund Industry | John Bogle tells Boston analysts how the mutual fund industry became commercialised since the 1949 Fortune article Big Money in Boston. | 2013 | ||
| The U.S. Financial System: Look Out! Change Is Coming | John Bogle warns at Princeton that change is coming to the U.S. financial system. | 2013 | ||
| In The Fund Industry, Mutuality and Indexing Rule the Seas | John Bogle argues in conversation that mutuality and indexing will rule the fund industry. | 2012 | ||
| The (Non) Lessons of History — And the (Real) Lessons of Return Sources and Costs | John Bogle tells the American Philosophical Society that history offers few lessons, but return sources and costs do. | 2012 | ||
| The Age of Fiduciary Duty has Arrived | John Bogle tells personal financial advisers that the age of fiduciary duty has arrived. | 2012 | ||
| A Life, A Career, and a Mission to Build A Better Financial World for Investors | John Bogle recounts his life, career and mission to build a better financial world for investors. | 2012 | ||
| Thinking About What Lies Ahead for Investors | John Bogle gives the CFA Society of Washington his view of what lies ahead for investors in 2012. | 2012 | ||
| Straight From The Heart: Efficiency and Humanity, in Medicine and Finance | John Bogle accepts the Bernard Lown Humanitarian Award and compares efficiency and humanity in medicine and finance. | 2012 | ||
| Written testimony on auditor independence and audit firm rotation | John Bogle submits written testimony to the PCAOB on auditor independence and mandatory audit firm rotation. | 2012 | ||
| John C. Bogle Legacy Forum opening remarks | John Bogle reflects on the Legacy Forum held for his 60th anniversary in finance. | 2012 | ||
| Bogleheads X presentation | John Bogle's Bogleheads X slides compare traditional index funds with sector, leveraged and fundamental index funds and ETFs. | 2011 | ||
| The Lessons of History — Endowment and Foundation Investing Today | John Bogle draws lessons from history for endowment and foundation investing in 2011. | 2011 | ||
| Helping Others | John Bogle reflects on helping others on receiving the Salvation Army's Others Award. | 2011 | ||
| At the Summit | John Bogle addresses the 2011 Tiburon CEO Summit on the state of the financial industry. | 2011 | ||
| Ethical Principles and Ethical Principals | John Bogle lectures at Cornell's Johnson School on ethical principles and ethical principals in finance. | 2010 | ||
| America’s Financial System — Powerful but Flawed | John Bogle argues America's financial system is powerful but flawed, extracting too much from investors. | 2010 | ||
| Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears the Crown | John Bogle accepts the FUSE Research award and warns that Vanguard's rise to largest fund firm carries responsibility. | 2010 | ||
| How Calvin Coolidge Could Guide Us Now | John Bogle draws lessons from Calvin Coolidge's thrift and integrity for 2010. | 2010 | ||
| The Fifth ‘Never’ | John Bogle's 2010 Trinity College commencement address on character and the values that should guide graduates. | 2010 | ||
| Community and Caring, Courage and Character | John Bogle's Blair Academy commencement address on community, caring, courage and character. | 2010 | ||
| Economic Markets and Public Purpose | John Bogle draws on Adam Smith to argue that economic markets must serve a public purpose. | 2009 | ||
| When a Man Comes to Himself | John Bogle's 2009 commencement address at the Williamson Free School of Mechanical Trades. | 2009 | ||
| The Culture That Gave Rise To The Current Financial Crisis | John Bogle argues that a culture of short-term speculation and self-interest gave rise to the 2008 financial crisis. | 2009 | ||
| Aspiring to Build a Better Financial World | John Bogle tells Princeton's Varsity Club of his aspiration to build a better financial world. | 2009 | ||
| The Fiduciary Principle: No Man Can Serve Two Masters | John Bogle argues at Columbia that the fiduciary principle, that no one can serve two masters, must be restored in finance. | 2009 | ||
| If You Can Trust Yourself… | John Bogle talks to Roxbury Latin School students about trusting yourself and character. | 2009 | ||
| Building a Fiduciary Society | John Bogle calls for building a fiduciary society, using the 2009 crisis as the chance for reform. | 2009 | ||
| Strengthening Worker Retirement Security (testimony) | John Bogle testifies to Congress that the U.S. retirement system is imperilled, and proposes ways to strengthen worker retirement security. | 2009 | ||
| Fixing a Broken Financial System | John Bogle proposes ways to fix a broken financial system in February 2009. | 2009 | ||
| A Community of Character | John Bogle accepts the Community College of Philadelphia's 2008 Bonnell Award and speaks on a community of character. | 2008 | ||
| Economics, Politics, and the Financial Markets | John Bogle discusses economics, politics and the financial markets at Blair Academy in October 2008, amid the crisis. | 2008 | ||
| A Tribute to Bernard Lown, M.D. | John Bogle pays tribute to cardiologist Bernard Lown and his book Prescription for Survival. | 2008 | ||
| The Coming Market Environment and Implications for Financial Innovation | John Bogle tells financial planners what the coming market environment means for financial innovation. | 2008 | ||
| The New Global Economy | John Bogle discusses the new global economy and turbulent financial markets in April 2008. | 2008 | ||
| Business and Its Publics | John Bogle reflects at NYU Stern on how business relates to its publics and responsibilities. | 2008 | ||
| A New Order of Things — Bringing Mutuality to the ‘Mutual’ Fund | John Bogle's 2008 Manuel F. Cohen lecture argues for bringing mutuality to the mutual fund industry. | 2008 | ||
| Investing in Times of Market Turbulence | John Bogle advises how to invest in times of market turbulence in January 2008. | 2008 | ||
| Why Do I Bother to Battle? | John Bogle tells the Yale CEO Leadership Summit why he keeps battling for investors. | 2007 | ||
| When Does Innovation Go Too Far? | John Bogle asks the Philadelphia Fed when financial innovation goes too far. | 2007 | ||
| The U.S. Financial Sector and the Relentless Rules of Humble Arithmetic | John Bogle argues the relentless arithmetic of costs means the financial sector takes too much of investors' returns. | 2007 | ||
| Building a Better Financial System | John Bogle tells Princeton's Old Guard how to build a better financial system. | 2007 | ||
| Reflections on Finance and Education | John Bogle reflects on finance and education on receiving the National Council on Economic Education's 2007 Visionary Award. | 2007 | ||
| High Standards of Commercial Honor … Fair Dealing with Investors | John Bogle urges FINRA to uphold high standards of commercial honour and fair dealing with investors. | 2007 | ||
| Black Monday and Black Swans | John Bogle marks 20 years since Black Monday and discusses black swans with the Risk Management Association. | 2007 | ||
| A Question So Important that It Should Be Hard to Think about Anything Else | John Bogle poses a question about investors' interests so important it should be hard to think about anything else. | 2007 | ||
| Enough | John Bogle's Georgetown commencement address, Enough, on knowing when you have enough in money and life. | 2007 | ||
| The Role of the Fiduciary in Risky Financial Markets | John Bogle argues fiduciaries must protect clients in risky financial markets. | 2007 | ||
| Salesmanship vs. Stewardship — Bond Mutual Funds Gone Awry | John Bogle argues bond mutual funds have put salesmanship ahead of stewardship. | 2007 | ||
| Leaving the Things that You Touch Better than You Found Them | John Bogle accepts the Union League of Philadelphia's honour and urges leaving things better than you found them. | 2007 | ||
| Reflections on Markets, Ethics, and Careers | John Bogle reflects on markets, ethics and careers to NYU Stern students. | 2007 | ||
| Vanishing Treasures — Business Values and Investment Values | John Bogle argues at Princeton that business and investment values are vanishing treasures. | 2007 | ||
| Vanguard: Saga of Heroes | John Bogle tells Vanguard's story as a saga of heroes to a Pepperdine class. | 2007 | ||
| Looking At Investing From A New Perspective, A Half Century Old | John Bogle tells the CFA Society of Los Angeles to look at investing from his half-century-old perspective. | 2007 | ||
| Designing a New Mutual Fund Industry | John Bogle sets out how he would design a new mutual fund industry. | 2007 | ||
| The Joy of Writing — Books, Ideas, Advocacy, and Idealism | John Bogle reflects on the joy of writing and on his book The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism. | 2006 | ||
| Reflections on the Importance of History — Milestones, Men, and a Moral Society | John Bogle reflects on history, milestones and a moral society at Pine Street Presbyterian Church's 300th anniversary. | 2006 | ||
| Ethical Principles and Ethical Principals | John Bogle accepts an Exemplary Leadership Award and speaks on ethical principles and ethical principals. | 2006 | ||
| A Tale of Two Markets | John Bogle contrasts a tale of two markets, the real market of business and the expectations market of stock prices. | 2006 | ||
| What’s Happened to the Mutual Fund Industry? | John Bogle asks the CFA Society of San Francisco what has happened to the mutual fund industry. | 2006 | ||
| The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism | John Bogle tells Immaculata University students how to do their part to begin the world anew. | 2006 | ||
| Reflections on My 55th Anniversary at Vanguard | John Bogle reflects on vision and values on his 55th anniversary in the mutual fund industry. | 2006 | ||
| Long Horizon Investing and Corporate Governance | John Bogle argues that managers' capitalism has replaced owners' capitalism, and calls for long-horizon investing and better governance. | 2006 | ||
| What’s Ahead for Stocks and Bonds — And How to Earn Your Fair Share | John Bogle tells The Money Show what lies ahead for stocks and bonds and how investors can earn their fair share. | 2006 | ||
| Investment Wisdom and Human Values | John Bogle lectures West Point cadets on investment wisdom and human values. | 2006 | ||
| The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism — remarks at the Aspen Book Series | John Bogle discusses his book The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism at the Aspen Book Series. | 2006 | ||
| Mutual Funds: How a Profession with Elements of a Business Became a Business with Elements of a Profession | John Bogle argues mutual funds turned from a profession with elements of a business into a business with elements of a profession. | 2006 | ||
| The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism | John Bogle presents The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism at the University of Virginia's Miller Center. | 2006 | ||
| Capitalism, Entrepreneurship, and Investing — The 18th Century vs. the 21st Century | John Bogle compares capitalism, entrepreneurship and investing in the 18th and 21st centuries. | 2006 | ||
| The Chief Cornerstone | John Bogle marks 30 years since the first index investment trust launched on December 31, 1975. | 2005 | ||
| The Uncanny Ability to Recognize the Obvious | John Bogle accepts the FMA's 2005 award and credits his career to an uncanny ability to recognise the obvious. | 2005 | ||
| In Troubled Times… The Arithmetic of Mutual Fund Investing is More Important Than Ever | John Bogle argues the arithmetic of mutual fund costs matters more than ever in troubled times. | 2005 | ||
| The Ownership of Corporate America — Rights and Responsibilities | John Bogle tells the Council of Institutional Investors that owners of corporate America have rights and responsibilities. | 2005 | ||
| Corporate Governance: What’s Next? | John Bogle asks what comes next in corporate governance. | 2005 | ||
| In Investing, You Get What You Don’t Pay For | John Bogle argues that in investing you get what you don't pay for. | 2005 | ||
| This Above All: To Thine Own Self Be True | John Bogle's Episcopal Academy chapel address on being true to yourself. | 2004 | ||
| Character Counts In Business, In Markets, And In Each Firm | John Bogle tells property casualty insurers that character counts in business, markets and each firm. | 2004 | ||
| Time for Growth — Strengthening Trust and Confidence in Financial Services | John Bogle tells SIBOS that investing is an act of faith and financial services must strengthen trust. | 2004 | ||
| CONVERGENCE! | John Bogle argues active management is converging on indexing while indexing, through ETFs, converges on active management. | 2004 | ||
| We the People | John Bogle accepts the Committee of Seventy's Philadelphia Good Citizenship Award. | 2004 | ||
| Vanguard — Child of Princeton | John Bogle tells Princeton entrepreneurs that Vanguard was a child of Princeton, born of his 1951 thesis. | 2004 | ||
| The Right Kind of Success | John Bogle describes the right kind of success on receiving an honorary degree from Penn State. | 2004 | ||
| Marketing and Fiduciary Duty — Strange Bedfellows? | John Bogle asks whether marketing and fiduciary duty are strange bedfellows in the fund industry. | 2004 | ||
| Creating Sound Governance: The Shareholder’s Perspective | John Bogle sets out the shareholder's view of sound governance after Enron. | 2004 | ||
| As The Index Fund Moves From Heresy to Dogma… What More Do We Need To Know | John Bogle asks what more we need to know as the index fund moves from heresy to dogma. | 2004 | ||
| Tis Not Too Late to Seek a Newer World | John Bogle accepts Institutional Investor's lifetime achievement award, quoting Tennyson. | 2004 | ||
| It’s High Time We Return Capitalism to its Owners | John Bogle argues it is time to return capitalism to its owners. | 2004 | ||
| Senate testimony, Subcommittee on Financial Management, the Budget, and International Security | John Bogle testifies to the Senate on mutual fund reform after the 2003 trading scandals. | 2004 | ||
| Re-Mutualizing the Mutual Fund Industry — The Alpha and the Omega | John Bogle argues for re-mutualising the mutual fund industry. | 2004 | ||
| Has Your Fund Manager Betrayed Your Trust? Consider the Stewardship Quotient | John Bogle proposes a stewardship quotient to judge whether fund managers have betrayed investors' trust. | 2004 | ||
| Reflections on Wellington Fund’s 75th Birthday | John Bogle reflects on Wellington Fund's 75th birthday as an investor for 53 years and chairman for 27. | 2003 | ||
| Corporate Governance and Mutual Fund Governance — Reflections at a Time of Crisis | John Bogle reflects on corporate and mutual fund governance at a time of crisis in 2003. | 2003 | ||
| A New Era for Corporate America, for Mutual Funds, and for Investors | John Bogle tells Vanderbilt that 2003 opens a new era for corporate America, mutual funds and investors. | 2003 | ||
| Senate testimony, Subcommittee on Financial Management, the Budget, and International Security | John Bogle testifies to a Senate subcommittee on mutual fund reform in 2003. | 2003 | ||
| It’s An Ill Wind That Blows No Good | John Bogle argues the 2003 mutual fund scandals will ultimately serve fund owners. | 2003 | ||
| Somebody’s Gotta Keep An Eye On These Geniuses | John Bogle tells Wisconsin's investment board what must be done to restore owners' capitalism. | 2003 | ||
| Restoring Trust: Financial Services in the New Era | John Bogle tells SunGard how financial services can restore trust in a new era. | 2003 | ||
| The Constitution: For Ourselves and our Posterity | John Bogle speaks at the dedication of the National Constitution Center on July 4, 2003. | 2003 | ||
| Chasing the Rabbit | John Bogle's Drexel commencement remarks, Chasing the Rabbit, on what success really means. | 2003 | ||
| Owners Capitalism vs. Managers Capitalism | John Bogle contrasts owners' capitalism with managers' capitalism before investor relations officers. | 2003 | ||
| One Equal Temper of Heroic Hearts | John Bogle accepts the Cardiovascular Institute's 2003 leadership award, recalling his heart transplant. | 2003 | ||
| The Policy Portfolio in an Era of Subdued Returns | John Bogle discusses how to set a policy portfolio in an era of subdued returns. | 2003 | ||
| Choosing The Right Path | John Bogle speaks to a Swarthmore congregation on choosing the right path. | 2003 | ||
| Entrepreneurship — What’s It Really About? | John Bogle reflects on what entrepreneurship is really about on receiving NFTE's award. | 2003 | ||
| What I’ve Learned in A Half Century In Business — Twelve Rules For Building A Great Work Force | John Bogle gives twelve rules for building a great work force from half a century in business. | 2003 | ||
| House of Representatives testimony, Subcommittee on Capital Markets | John Bogle testifies to a House subcommittee on capital markets about mutual fund reform. | 2003 | ||
| What Went Wrong in Corporate America? | John Bogle asks what went wrong in corporate America after the scandals of 2001 and 2002. | 2003 | ||
| The Mutual Fund Industry in 2003: Back to the Future | John Bogle tells Boston analysts the fund industry must go back to the future, to stewardship. | 2003 | ||
| Business Leadership and Morality | John Bogle accepts Yale's Legend of Leadership award and speaks on business leadership and morality. | 2003 | ||
| Three Lucky Breaks — Three Exciting Careers | John Bogle recounts three lucky breaks that shaped his three careers. | 2002 | ||
| The Investment Dilemma of the Philanthropic Investor | John Bogle discusses the investment dilemma of philanthropic investors after the boom and bust. | 2002 | ||
| After the Fall: What Lies Ahead for Capitalism and the Financial Markets? | John Bogle asks what lies ahead for capitalism and the financial markets after the 2000 to 2002 fall. | 2002 | ||
| Don’t Count on It! The Perils of Numeracy | John Bogle warns at Princeton of the perils of numeracy: trusting numbers that mislead. | 2002 | ||
| Memorandum to Financial Intermediaries: How We Can Profit From The Experience of Corporate America | John Bogle tells financial intermediaries what they can learn from corporate America's failures. | 2002 | ||
| The Telltale Chart | John Bogle uses a telltale chart at Morningstar's forum to show how costs and speculation hurt fund investors. | 2002 | ||
| Honoring Adam Smith | John Bogle honours Adam Smith and his lasting influence on economic thought. | 2002 | ||
| Rebuilding Faith: Wealth Management in the New Era | John Bogle argues wealth management must rebuild faith, since investing is an act of faith. | 2002 | ||
| A Lot Can Happen in 25 Years | John Bogle reviews 25 years of mutual funds and the institutionalisation of financial markets. | 2002 | ||
| The End of Mutual Fund Dominance | John Bogle predicts the end of mutual fund dominance unless the industry serves investors better. | 2002 | ||
| A Nation Challenged…And Not Only From Abroad | John Bogle argues the nation faces challenges at home as well as from abroad after 2001. | 2002 | ||
| Leadership: Creating a Firm With Character | John Bogle lectures at Cornell on leadership and creating a firm with character. | 2002 | ||
| Entrepreneurship and Economic Progress | John Bogle inaugurates Blair Academy's Hollerith lectures on entrepreneurship and economic progress. | 2002 | ||
| Just When We Need It Most… Is Corporate Governance Letting Us Down? | John Bogle asks whether corporate governance is letting investors down, just after Enron. | 2002 | ||
| Energy and Persistence Conquer All Things | John Bogle applies Benjamin Franklin's entrepreneurship to the 21st century on receiving the Franklin Founders Award. | 2002 | ||
| The Wisdom of Investment — The Folly of Speculation | John Bogle contrasts the wisdom of investment with the folly of speculation at the Superbowl of Indexing. | 2001 | ||
| Three Odysseys | John Bogle traces three odysseys: the stock market, the mutual fund industry and Vanguard. | 2001 | ||
| The Marriage of Information Technology and Investing: For Richer or Poorer? | John Bogle asks whether the marriage of information technology and investing has made investors richer or poorer. | 2001 | ||
| Three Challenges of Investing | John Bogle discusses active management, market efficiency and selecting managers with Barr Rosenberg. | 2001 | ||
| What Will Survive Of Us Is Love | John Bogle speaks to Rochester's United Way after September 11 on what will survive of us. | 2001 | ||
| One in Mission | John Bogle accepts the Philadelphia Education Fund's 2001 Giving Forward award. | 2001 | ||
| Reinventing Mutual Funds | John Bogle sets out how to reinvent mutual funds at Forrester's finance forum. | 2001 | ||
| At the 50-Year Mark — Looking Back, Looking Ahead | John Bogle looks back and ahead at his 50-year mark in the fund industry. | 2001 | ||
| When Commitment Leads, Providence Follows | John Bogle's commencement address on commitment and providence. | 2001 | ||
| The Twelve Pillars of Wisdom | John Bogle lists twelve pillars of wisdom investors should have learned before the bear market. | 2001 | ||
| A Tale of Two Markets | John Bogle contrasts two markets, business value and speculative prices, in 2001. | 2001 | ||
| After the Fall: What’s Next for the Stock Market and the Mutual Fund Industry? | John Bogle asks at the National Press Club what follows the 2000 fall for stocks and mutual funds. | 2001 | ||
| The Stock Market Universe — Stars, Comets, and the Sun | John Bogle describes the stock market universe of stars, comets and the sun to Philadelphia analysts. | 2001 | ||
| The Case of the Dog that Didn’t Bark | John Bogle tells fund directors about the dog that didn't bark: their failure to act on fees and governance. | 2001 | ||
| Wisdom, Insight, and the Qualities of a Model Institution | John Bogle describes the qualities of a model institution on receiving an honorary degree. | 2000 | ||
| What Can Active Managers Learn From Index Funds? | John Bogle asks what active managers can learn from index funds. | 2000 | ||
| Success In Investment Management: What Can We Learn From Indexing? | John Bogle tells Chicago analysts what indexing teaches about success in investment management. | 2000 | ||
| The Vanguard Story: Luck, Leadership and Strategy | John Bogle tells Vanguard's story of luck, leadership and strategy at NYU Stern. | 2000 | ||
| Public Accounting: Profession or Business? | John Bogle asks whether public accounting is a profession or a business. | 2000 | ||
| The Financial Markets and the Mutual Fund Industry | John Bogle draws lessons for the future from half a century of financial markets and the fund industry. | 2000 | ||
| Tis The Gift To Be Simple | John Bogle accepts the 2000 Business Leader of the Year award and praises simplicity. | 2000 | ||
| Introduction of the President of the United States | John Bogle introduces President Clinton at the National Constitution Center groundbreaking in 2000. | 2000 | ||
| Bread and Circuses | John Bogle compares 2000's speculative financial markets with Rome's bread and circuses. | 2000 | ||
| Business as a Calling | John Bogle argues business is a calling on receiving an honorary degree from the University of Rochester. | 2000 | ||
| Remarks at Vanguard’s 25th Anniversary Dinner | John Bogle thanks Vanguard's crew at its 25th anniversary dinner. | 2000 | ||
| Mutual Funds at the Millennium: Fund Directors and Fund Myths | John Bogle discusses fund directors and fund myths at the millennium. | 2000 | ||
| A Businessman-Philosopher Considers the New Millennium | John Bogle considers the new millennium as a businessman-philosopher. | 2000 | ||
| Risk and Risk Control in an Era of Confidence | John Bogle discusses risk and risk control in an era of confidence, or greed, in April 2000. | 2000 | ||
| The Dream of a Perfect Plan | John Bogle argues there is no perfect investment plan, but a simple low-cost one comes close. | 2000 | ||
| The Power of Words, Ideas, Ideals, and Books | John Bogle discusses the power of words and ideas and his book Common Sense on Mutual Funds. | 2000 | ||
| Technology: Follower or Leader? Bane or Blessing? | John Bogle asks whether technology is a bane or a blessing for investors. | 2000 | ||
| Human Beings: Essential Link in the Service-Profit Chain | John Bogle tells Harvard Business School that human beings are the essential link in Vanguard's service-profit chain. | 1999 | ||
| Giving The Bond Fund Investor a Fair Shake | John Bogle argues bond fund investors deserve a fair shake on costs. | 1999 | ||
| The Dream of a Perfect Plan | John Bogle's 1999 keynote, The Dream of a Perfect Plan, on simple low-cost investing. | 1999 | ||
| The Economics of the Mutual Fund Industry | John Bogle explains the economics of the mutual fund industry for fund investors and fund managers. | 1999 | ||
| The Lengthened Shadow, Economics, and Idealism | John Bogle, 1999 Woodrow Wilson Medalist, reflects on Wilson's lengthened shadow, economics and idealism. | 1999 | ||
| Adam Smith, the Invisible Hand, and the Mutual Fund Industry | John Bogle applies Adam Smith's invisible hand to the mutual fund industry, where competition has not lowered costs. | 1999 | ||
| Gentlemen … To Save Our Business from Ruin, We Must Reduce Expenses | John Bogle argues fund companies must reduce expenses to serve investors. | 1999 | ||
| The Fox, The Hedgehog, and The Cave | John Bogle applies the fox, the hedgehog and the cave to age-old principles for mutual funds in the new millennium. | 1999 | ||
| Globalisation of Mutual Funds: Perspective, Prospects, and Trust | John Bogle discusses the globalisation of mutual funds, its prospects and the need for trust. | 1999 | ||
| And What Role Does the Law Play? | John Bogle asks whether investment management is a business or a profession, and what role the law plays. | 1999 | ||
| Changing the Mutual Fund Industry: The Hedgehog and the Fox | John Bogle uses the hedgehog and the fox to describe changing the mutual fund industry, on receiving Princeton's Woodrow Wilson Award. | 1999 | ||
| Investing with Simplicity | John Bogle urges investors to invest with simplicity. | 1999 | ||
| Acres of Diamonds | John Bogle's Acres of Diamonds remarks on receiving Temple University's Musser leadership award. | 1998 | ||
| Creating Shareholder Value: BY Mutual Funds or FOR Mutual Fund Shareholders? | John Bogle asks whether funds create shareholder value for themselves or for their shareholders. | 1998 | ||
| The Four Dimensions of Investment Return | John Bogle sets out four dimensions of investment return: reward, risk, cost and time. | 1998 | ||
| The Search for the Holy Grail | John Bogle tells the Q Group that the search for the holy grail of beating the market is futile. | 1998 | ||
| Bond Funds: Treadmill to Oblivion? | John Bogle argues high costs put bond funds on a treadmill to oblivion. | 1998 | ||
| Honoring Our $4 Trillion Trust: Mutual Funds in the 21st Century | John Bogle urges the fund industry to honour its $4 trillion trust in the 21st century. | 1998 | ||
| Reversion to the Mean: Sir Isaac Newton’s Revenge on Wall Street | John Bogle argues reversion to the mean is Sir Isaac Newton's revenge on Wall Street. | 1998 | ||
| Happiness or Misery? Investment Performance in an Age of Investment Relativism | John Bogle argues investors judge performance relatively, in an age of investment relativism. | 1997 | ||
| Mutual Funds: Parallaxes and Taxes | John Bogle explains mutual funds' parallaxes and taxes to AIMR. | 1997 | ||
| Nothing Fails Like Success | John Bogle warns that nothing fails like success, examining the investment implications of the great fund boom. | 1997 | ||
| Mutual Funds: Parallaxes and Taxes | John Bogle explains mutual funds' parallaxes and taxes to Northern Trust's family forum. | 1997 | ||
| Reflections on the Spirit of Entrepreneurship | John Bogle reflects on the spirit of entrepreneurship. | 1997 | ||
| Mutual Funds and Life Insurance: Contrasts and Parallels | John Bogle contrasts mutual funds with life insurance. | 1997 | ||
| The Riddle of Performance Attribution | John Bogle asks who is in charge of fund performance, asset allocation or cost, and argues cost matters more than credited. | 1997 | ||
| The Investment Outlook and Strategies in Our Global World | John Bogle discusses the investment outlook and strategies in a global world in the 1997 boom. | 1997 | ||
| The Implications of Style Analysis on Mutual Fund Performance Evaluation | John Bogle examines what style analysis implies for evaluating mutual fund performance. | 1997 | ||
| On Leadership | John Bogle's Widener University commencement address on leadership. | 1997 | ||
| To What Avail? Computer Technology and Mutual Funds | John Bogle asks what computer technology has done for mutual fund investors. | 1997 | ||
| The First Index Mutual Fund | John Bogle tells the story of the first index mutual fund, two years after Vanguard's The Triumph of Indexing. | 1997 | ||
| Be Not The First… Nor Yet The Last | John Bogle lists six things to remember about indexing and one to forget. | 1996 | ||
| Mutual Funds in 1987: A $700 Billion Trust | John Bogle tells the fund industry in 1987 that it holds a $700 billion trust for investors. | 1987 | ||
| Statistics and Suicide | John Bogle tells quantitative analysts that statistics can mislead, in his 1984 talk Statistics and Suicide. | 1984 | ||
| The Professor, The Student, and the Index Fund | John Bogle tells the story of the first index mutual fund, launched on August 31, 1976, and the professor who inspired it. | 1981 | ||
| 1978 Wellington Fund memo | John Bogle's 1978 memo on Wellington Fund, still Vanguard's largest fund but losing assets as its 50th anniversary nears. | 1978 | ||
| Marketing Mutual Fund Shares in the 1980’s | John Bogle discusses marketing mutual fund shares in the 1980s. | 1977 | ||
| 1972 Wellington Fund memo | John Bogle's 1972 memo weighs the future of Wellington Fund. | 1972 |
| The Index Mutual Fund: 40 Years of Growth, Change, and Challenge Paywall | Financial Analysts Journal | Research paper | 2016 |
| Journal of Portfolio Management article (vol. 43 no. 1) Paywall | The Journal of Portfolio Management | Research paper | 2016 |
| Journal of Portfolio Management article (vol. 42 no. 2) Paywall | The Journal of Portfolio Management | Research paper | 2016 |
| Journal of Portfolio Management article (vol. 42 no. 1) Paywall | The Journal of Portfolio Management | Research paper | 2015 |
| The Arithmetic of 'All-In' Investment Expenses | Financial Analysts Journal | Research paper | 2014 |
| Letter to the Editor | The Economist | Article | 2014 |
| Journal of Portfolio Management article (vol. 40 no. 4) Paywall | The Journal of Portfolio Management | Research paper | 2014 |
| Journal of Portfolio Management article (vol. 40 no. 5) Paywall | The Journal of Portfolio Management | Research paper | 2014 |
| Letter to the Editor on hedge funds | The Wall Street Journal | Article | 2013 |
| Journal of Portfolio Management article (vol. 40 no. 1) Paywall | The Journal of Portfolio Management | Research paper | 2013 |
| The Clash of the Cultures: Investment vs. Speculation | The Journal of Portfolio Management | Research paper | 2011 |
| On Mutual Funds, Cheaper is Better | The Wall Street Journal | Article | 2010 |
| Markets in Crisis | Financial Analysts Journal | Research paper | 2009 |
| The Fiduciary Principle: No Man Can Serve Two Masters | The Journal of Portfolio Management | Research paper | 2009 |
| The End of Soft Dollars? | Financial Analysts Journal | Research paper | 2009 |
| A Crisis of Ethic Proportions | The Wall Street Journal | Article | 2009 |
| A Question So Important That it Should Be Hard to Think About Anything Else | The Journal of Portfolio Management | Research paper | 2008 |
| Bringing Mutuality to Mutual Funds | SSRN working paper | Research paper | 2008 |
| Black Monday and Black Swans | Financial Analysts Journal | Research paper | 2008 |
| Letter to the Editor | The Wall Street Journal | Article | 2007 |
| Vanguard: Saga of Heroes | Pepperdine University | Article | 2007 |
| Value Strategies | The Wall Street Journal | Article | 2007 |
| Turn on a Paradigm? | The Wall Street Journal | Article | 2006 |
| Letter to the Editor | The Wall Street Journal | Article | 2006 |
| Mutual Funds and Taxes (letter to the editor) | The Wall Street Journal | Article | 2006 |
| Comment letter on executive compensation and related party disclosure | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission | Article | 2006 |
| The Relentless Rules of Humble Arithmetic | Financial Analysts Journal | Research paper | 2005 |
| The Executive Compensation System is Broken | SSRN working paper | Research paper | 2005 |
| The Uncanny Ability to Recognize the Obvious | SSRN working paper | Research paper | 2005 |
| The Mutual Fund Industry Sixty Years Later: For Better or Worse? | Financial Analysts Journal | Research paper | 2005 |
| The Relentless Rules of Humble Arithmetic | Financial Analysts Journal | Research paper | 2005 |
| The Mutual Fund Industry 60 Years Later: For Better or Worse? | Financial Analysts Journal | Research paper | 2005 |
| The Amazing Disappearance of the Individual Stockholder | The Wall Street Journal | Article | 2005 |
| The Spitzer Effect | The Wall Street Journal | Article | 2004 |
| Fair Shake or Shakedown? | The Wall Street Journal | Article | 2004 |
| Don’t Count on It: The Perils of Numeracy | SSRN working paper | Research paper | 2003 |
| Not-So Mutual Funds | The Wall Street Journal | Article | 2003 |
| Specialist Man | The Wall Street Journal | Article | 2003 |
| The Emperor’s New Mutual Funds | The Wall Street Journal | Article | 2003 |
| An Index Fund Fundamentalist Goes Back to the Drawing Board | The Journal of Portfolio Management | Research paper | 2002 |
| Remaking the Market: Reality Bites | The Wall Street Journal | Article | 2002 |
| How Mutual Funds Lost Their Way | The Wall Street Journal | Article | 2000 |
| The Wall Street Casino | The New York Times | Article | 1999 |
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| John C. Bogle, Founder of Financial Giant Vanguard, Is Dead at 89 Paywall | The New York Times | 2019 |
| John C. Bogle, Founder of Vanguard Group, Dies at 89 Paywall | The Wall Street Journal | 2019 |
| Vanguard founder Jack Bogle dies at 89; pioneered the index fund Paywall | The Washington Post | 2019 |
| Vanguard’s Jack Bogle Wasn’t a Billionaire. He Was Proud of That. Paywall | The New York Times | 2019 |