Laura Dogu

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Laura F. Dogu is one of the premier posters on the Bogleheads.org forum. She's especially good at drawing out the required information needed to help new investors, no matter how many exchanges are required to finalize things.

Jack Bogle had previously named Taylor Larimore "King of the Bogleheads" and he called Mel Lindauer "The Prince of the Bogleheads". Realizing that the Bogleheads had no "queen", Taylor and Mel decided to crown Laura "Queen of the Bogleheads" at their 2007 reunion in recognition of her many excellent contributions to the success of the forum. Laura was then invited to become a panel member for the Q&A with the Experts session and she's participated as an investment panelist during the Bogleheads reunions for the last three years.

Dogu is a career Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State.

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Along with Jack Bogle, Mel Lindauer and Taylor Larimore, Laura was honored by being selected as one of Money Magazine's everyday heroes in the magazine's March 2012 issue: Champions of the small investor

Blog

Laura Dogu is a contributor to The Bogleheads® View blog on Forbes.com.

• Forbes.com profile: Laura Dogu.

Laura Dogu, Mel Lindauer: The Bogleheads - Advice Inspired by Jack Bogle

• Index Funds — Low fees aren’t the only advantage. (23 May 2013)

Today’s guest columnist is author, Bill Schultheis. Jack Bogle, the founder and retired chairman of Vanguard, is a legendary figure in bringing the simple concept of “index funds” to investors across the country and around the world.  Though he may not have invented the index fund, his bold vision and leadership was the driving force in [...]

• A Simple Way To Build Your Own Annuity (1 March 2013)

I’ve been asked a number of times if I feel there’s a safe way that an investor can build their own annuity without surrendering a large sum of money to an insurance company to purchase a Single Premium Immediate Annuity (SPIA). Indeed, I do feel that it’s possible for an investor to build a 20 or 30-year risk-free annuity without [...]

• Searching for yield in all the wrong places? (10 February 2013)

With today’s record low yields on FDIC-insured bank saving accounts and CDs, most investors are searching for higher yields. However, many investors are taking on more risk in the pursuit of those higher yields by investing in riskier products, often without realizing that higher yields usually means higher risk. Perhaps you’ve overlooked those “stodgy” old [...]

• 2012 Year-End Financial Checklist (27 December 2012)

With the approaching end of 2012, here’s a brief checklist of some things you may have overlooked that you might still need to take care of. Time to Rebalance? If you rebalance annually, have you already done so, or is this the time of the year when you need to handle that? Required Minimum Distribution [...]

• Paying Down Debt: Often the Best Investment (2 December 2012)

If you have a loan and you have money available to add to your investments, you also have the option of using the money to make an extra payment on the loan.  Is the extra payment a good idea?  Evaluate it as an investment opportunity: you are using money now so that you will have [...]

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Books

Laura is a co-editor of the Bogleheads community-authored book The Bogleheads' Guide to Retirement Planning ISBN 978047045557-9

See also

• The Bogleheads® view

 

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