John C. Bogle, 77, is Founder of The Vanguard Group, Inc., and President of Vanguard's Bogle Financial Markets Research Center. He created Vanguard in 1974 and served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer until 1996 and Senior Chairman until 2000. He had been associated with a predecessor company since 1951, immediately following his graduation from Princeton University, magna cum laude in Economics. He is a graduate of Blair Academy, Class of 1947. The Vanguard Group is one of the two largest mutual fund organizations in the world. Headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania, Vanguard comprises more than 100 mutual funds with current assets totaling about $950 billion. Vanguard 500 Index Fund, the largest fund in the group, was founded by Mr. Bogle in 1975. It was the first index mutual fund.
- In 2004, TIME magazine named Mr. Bogle as one of the world's 100 most powerful and influential people and Institutional Investor presented him with its Lifetime Achievement Award.
- In 1999, FORTUNE designated him as one of the investment industry's four “Giants of the 20th Century.” In the same year, he received the Woodrow Wilson Award from Princeton University for “distinguished achievement in the nation's service.” And he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Fixed Income Analysts Society, Inc.
- In 1998, Mr. Bogle was presented the Award for Professional Excellence from the Association for Investment Management and Research.
- In 1997, he was named one of the “Financial Leaders of the 20th Century” in Leadership in Financial Services (Macmillan Press Ltd., 1997).
- In 1993, he received the Philadelphia Investment Achievement Award from the Financial Analysts of Philadelphia.
You can read his full biography on his web site, The Bogle eBlog.
His Books
Investors have purchased more than 500,000 copies of Mr. Bogle's books.
- Bogle on Mutual Funds: New Perspectives for the Intelligent Investor
- Common Sense on Mutual Funds: New Imperatives for the Intelligent Investor
- John Bogle on Investing: The First 50 Years
- Character Counts: The Creation and Building of The Vanguard Group
- The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism
- Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life
- The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
Other books of interest not written by Mr. Bogle includes:
