NASHVILLE, Tenn.—John C. Bogle, founder of The Vanguard Group and president of the Bogle Financial Markets Research Center, will speak at Vanderbilt University at noon on Tuesday, Nov. 15, as part of the Owen Graduate School of Management‘s Distinguished Speaker Series. The event, which will be held in Benton Chapel on the Vanderbilt campus, is free and open to the public.
Bogle founded Vanguard in 1974 and served as its chairman until 1996 and senior chairman until 2000. The Vanguard Group is one of the two largest mutual fund organizations in the world, comprising more than 120 mutual funds with current assets totaling $830 billion. In 1975, Bogle founded the Vanguard 500 Index Fund, the first index mutual fund and the largest fund in the group.
The author of several best-selling books on investing, including the recently published The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism, Bogle is recognized as a maverick in the investment industry. In 1999, Fortune magazine named him one of the investment industry’s four “giants of the 20th century.” Time magazine named him one of the world’s 100 most powerful and influential people, and Institutional Investor gave him its lifetime achievement award. He is also a recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Award from Princeton University for “distinguished achievement in the nation’s service.”
A book signing and reception with Bogle in the lobby of the Owen School will follow his speech. Representatives of the Vanderbilt bookstore will be on hand to sell copies of The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism, in which Bogle argues that money managers have put their own financial interests ahead of those of the investors they represent and that the financial system has “robbed investors of trillions.” In reviewing The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism, U.S. News & World Report said, “Anyone who cares about American business ought to be concerned about the dire warnings in [this] book.”
Founded in 1969, the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University is ranked as a top institution by Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, U.S. News & World Report, Financial Times and Forbes. For more news about Owen, visit www.owen.vanderbilt.edu.
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