To be perfectly crass about it, you would have made an awful lot of money if you had followed the advice of John Bogle, the Vanguard founder, better known as Jack, who died Wednesday at the age of 89.

John Bogle founded Vanguard Group and created the first index mutual fund. Bogle's investing philosophy stressed low costs, market-wide exposure, and long-term investment. His methods highly ...

As investors grapple with a volatile landscape, passive funds are proving indispensable to get market returns from a diversified set of stocks at a very low cost.

Index funds have long been hailed as the gold standard for long-term investing—offering low fees, market-wide exposure, and steady returns. Developed by Vanguard founder Jack Bogle, index funds don’t ...

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