JOHN BOGLE
Title: Founder, Vanguard Group, 1974. Home: Bryn Mawr. Family: Married to Eve Bogle; six children. Diplomas: Princeton University (1951), 14 honorary degrees.
Title: Founder, Vanguard Group, 1974.
Home: Bryn Mawr.
Family: Married to Eve Bogle; six children.
Diplomas: Princeton University (1951), 14 honorary degrees.
Resume: President of the Bogle Financial Markets Research Center. Created Vanguard, served as chairman and CEO until 1996 and as senior chairman until 2000. Associated with a predecessor company, Wellington, since 1951, serving as chief executive from 1967 to 1974.
Other: Launched the first index fund in 1976, and "it was a flop," he recalls, raising just $11 million. Today, indexing has been vindicated, with Vanguard approaching $4 trillion in assets.
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