John C. Bogle is a legendary American investor, founder of The Vanguard Group, and author of Common Sense on Mutual Funds. In his book, The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism: Money, Myth, and Mortality at America's Corporate Legends, he describes the story of his life as an investing legend. He shares the phenomenally successful strategies he has used to invest in the markets for more than fifty years
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Bogle studied philosophy under Leo Tolstoy at Yale University and became a scholar of Kantian ethics at Columbia University Law School.
He began his career as a lawyer under Robert F. Kennedy at the U.S. Department of Justice where he was assigned to investigate insurance company abuses.
While working there he served as a personal assistant to H.R. Haldeman, President Richard Nixon's chief advisor on domestic issues at the White House. In 1972 Bogle founded Vanguard Group Inc., an investment management company based in Malvern, Pennsylvania that pioneered index mutual funds starting with the first version of the S&P 500 Index Fund in 1976.
Bogle currently serves as Chairman Emeritus and continues to work closely with the firm's senior management team and senior investment professionals worldwide to ensure Vanguard's continued growth and success as a global investment management company dedicated to improving lives through investment management in all its forms—individual, institutional, retail, and corporate—by providing investors with products that are easy to understand and inexpensively priced in comparison to standard market benchmarks in every asset class in which it may be possible for Vanguard to compete effectively—stocks, bonds, real estate, commodities, private equity funds (Vanguard Ventures), hedge funds (Vanguard Capital Management LLC), exchange-traded funds (Vanguard ETFs), mutual funds (Vanguard Brokerage Services LLC), annuities (Vanguard Life Insurance Company), 401(k) plans (Vanguard Retirement Services LLC), endowments (Vanguard Endowment Management Company), trust services (Vanguard Financial Advisors LLC), insurance products (Vanguard Life Insurance Company) and other investment products (e.g., Vanguard Institutional Index Funds).
Bogle is also noted for his role in establishing the Institute for Sustainable Investing within The Vanguard Group during which he established five principles that guide Vanguard's approach to sustainable investing including "Performance Matters," "Investing is Not an Excuse," "Investment Decisions Should be Independent," "Investment Decisions Should be Immediate," "Investment