{"id":773,"date":"2012-12-17T16:08:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T21:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/?p=773"},"modified":"2012-12-17T16:10:12","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T21:10:12","slug":"773","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/17\/773\/","title":{"rendered":"Memo to Principals and Veterans 12\/17\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 17, 2012<\/p>\n<p>To Principals and Veterans:<\/p>\n<p>MORE &#8220;STUFF&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>     There have been so many press articles written about Vanguard, my new book, and my career that I don&#8217;t feel comfortable sending all of the stories to you. Instead, I&#8217;m attaching to this note six ofthe most prominent articles, and then posting the others on my eblog&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/in-the-press\/\" title=\"In The Press\">In The Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/12-Veteran-Note-12-17-12.docx.pdf'>The following stories are attached:<\/a><br \/>\n1. Fortune, December 24,2012, &#8220;A Visit with the Father of Indexing.&#8221; (Good for at least a few laughs!)<\/p>\n<p>2. Main Line Today, October 2012, &#8220;You Don&#8217;t Know Jack.&#8221; (But you will know him-a bit-after you read it.)<\/p>\n<p>3. Inc., October, 2012, &#8220;The Finance Industry&#8217;s Only Living Saint.&#8221; (Over the top!)<\/p>\n<p>4. Philadelphia Inquirer, December 9,2012. &#8220;Antidote to Market Mania: &#8216;Hold Tight.&#8217; &#8221; (Nice preview of Michael Smerconish&#8217;s Book Club gathering at Villanova last week. Full house.)<\/p>\n<p>5. Research Magazine, October 2012. &#8220;How John Bogle Really Sees ETFs.&#8221; (More accurate than most characterizations of my views.)<\/p>\n<p>6. Index Universe, September 28,2012. &#8220;The Clash of the Cultures .. . is the latest and perhaps best book by the &#8230; founder ofThe Vanguard Group.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>     If that&#8217;s not, well, <em>Enough <\/em>for you, I have also posted the following on my eblog: &#8220;The Scourge of Speculation&#8221; (FIX Global); &#8220;Dim View of the Asset-Management Industry&#8221; (U S News and World Report); a comprehensive book review (Financial Analysts Journal); &#8220;Best Books for an Investing Novice,&#8221; (The Wall Street Journal,) selecting The Little Book of Common Sense Investing; &#8220;Forget Trading, Start Investing,&#8221; (Money-Life Show, Chuck Jaffe); &#8220;Fund Directors (Secret) Holdings&#8221; and &#8220;Bold Commitment and Personal Magic,&#8221; (Directors and Boards); &#8220;Bogle Walks the Talk,&#8221; (Corporate Board Member); &#8220;Bogle&#8217;s Lament for Investing&#8217;s Culture Clash,&#8221; (Toronto Globe and Mail); and-finally!-&#8220;Long Live Buy and Hold&#8221; (Investment Advisor).<\/p>\n<p>     You&#8217;ll enjoy the surprising Editor&#8217;s Note at the end of this final story, a nice way to end this huge compilation. The good news : there&#8217;s almost nothing left to be said!<\/p>\n<p>Please enjoy a wonderful holy day season!<\/p>\n<p>Best always,<\/p>\n<p><em>Jack<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 17, 2012 To Principals and Veterans: MORE &#8220;STUFF&#8221; There have been so many press articles written about Vanguard, my new book, and my career that I don&#8217;t feel comfortable sending all of the stories to you. Instead, I&#8217;m attaching to this note six ofthe most prominent articles, and then posting the others on my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memos-to-principals-and-veterans","category-press-clippings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777,"href":"https:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions\/777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}