Jack Bogle, Founding father of Vanguard Group and Creator of the Index Fund, Dies at Age 89

Jack Bogle, who based Vanguard Group, an investing juggernaut now with greater than $5.1 trillion in property underneath administration, and created the world’s first index mutual fund, has died. He was 89. CNBC experiences:

Bogle handed away on Wednesday in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, in line with a press release from Vanguard.

Bogle, who preached purchase and maintain investing, was thought-about one of many world’s best traders. His index mutual fund enabled traders to attain excessive returns however at decrease prices than for actively managed funds.

He based Vanguard, the world’s largest mutual fund group, in 1975, and later served as chairman and CEO till 1996. Vanguard now manages property from greater than 20 million traders in about 170 nations.

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