Image Credit: Emanuel Leutze, “Washington Crossing the Delaware” (1851), Metropolitan Museum of Art By Jason Zweig | Jan. 18, 2019 6:59 a.m. ET While Jack Bogle is known for driving down costs for investors, that still understates his contribution to finance. He should also be remembered as the inventor of total return and the...
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Image Credit: James Guthrie, “A Highland Funeral” (1882), Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow (Wikimedia Commons) By Jason Zweig | Jan. 16, 2019 American investors have lost the fiercest advocate they may have ever had. John Clifton Bogle, founder of Vanguard Group and a crusader for investors’ rights for...
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Image credit: Marion S. Trikosko, “Vanguard Computing Center” (Cape Canaveral, 1958), Library of Congress By Jason Zweig | Jan. 18, 2019 7:00am ET In 2004, I did a long profile of Vanguard as a changing company. In the wake of Jack Bogle’s death this week, I thought it was worth retrieving and posting. It’s of interest...
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Image Credit: Alex Nabaum By Jason Zweig | Jan. 11, 2019 12:04 p.m. ET On Jan. 7, Amazon.com Inc. became the world’s largest company by market capitalization. Its rise might make you think today’s biggest technology companies are turning into unstoppable juggernauts of growth, or that turnover at the top is only accelerating. First, consider the...
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Image Credit: Alex Nabaum By Jason Zweig | January 4, 2019 If only, in turbulent markets like these, you could know your financial adviser will always act in your best interest. In mid-December, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton told the U.S. Senate Banking Committee that investors don’t want brokers or financial advisers to...
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