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Official announcement from Vanguard

https://investornews.vanguard/tim-buckley-to-succeed-bill-mcnabb-as-vanguard-ceo/

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Here's a link to NASDAQ article

http://www.nasdaq.com/article/vanguard- ... 0713-01166

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Tim Buckley CIO will succeed Bill McNab as Vanguard CEO at year end. Just announced on Bloomberg.
McNab will remain as Chairman.

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Angst wrote: I just downloaded it along with a few others to listen to later, including one on the "Haber-Bosch process". If you're interested, the "Haber-Bosch process" was covered in episode 7 of "Connections" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series)

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Thank you for posting this.

Ed

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William Bernstein had a pretty good take on factor investing:

http://www.etf.com/sections/index-investor-corner/21536-bernstein-bozos-make-smart-beta-work.html?nopaging=1

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Vanguard's Jack Bogle Warns Smart Beta May Be Over-Promising https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-27/vanguard-s-jack-bogle-warns-smart-beta-may-be-over-promising “Beware of any strategy that is designed to beat the market over 50 years,” he (Bogle) said. “I wouldn’t do it. Why take the ri...

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https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=214495

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[Merged Ever Ready's thread and its replies into this existing thread - moderator prudent] Mr. Bogle was interviewed on CNN Smerconish this morning. The show will be rebroadcast today at 6:00 pm EDT. The full interview is on CNN website: Full interview: John C. Bogle on the economy http://www.cnn.c...

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Investors Pile Into TIPS as Inflation Looms -- 2nd Update

http://uk.advfn.com/news/DJN/2016/article/72778776

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Then use KeePass, which is stored locally on your computer as an encrypted database, not on the web. So then the attacker would need to compromise your computer to get to the encrypted blob, at which point it would just be easier to install a keylogger and mouse logger, which would let them get you...

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Use a password database like KeePass or LastPass.

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McNab on Bloomberg TV right now.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/vanguard-weighs-in-is-active-mutual-fund-management-dead/ Vanguard chief William McNabb: “Active management can survive ... only if it’s offered at much lower expense. Otherwise active management is dead, and rightly so,” he claimed. “It has never been a winning proposit...

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Amazon is showing "Out of Print - Limited Availability"

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0692783652/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=N9ZVUP6X7AA0&coliid=I2XWY70MWATS8L

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Welcome to the forum! I am reading Bogle's "Common Sense on Mutual Funds", 10th anniversary edition (2010). Just want to know if there is a later edition I can purchase? That is the latest edition. Besides all the great info, right now I am interested in a latest Table 1.1, Consumer Price ...

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I've never seen the returns of stocks, bonds and bills presented for the fiat currency era only. My guess is that it would be more favorable to stocks.

Doesn't appear to be.

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Mark your calendar for year-end fund distributions https://personal.vanguard.com/us/insights/article/year-end-distribution-schedule-102016 November 10, 2016 (estimated) Preliminary capital gains estimates: List of Vanguard mutual funds and ETFs expected to distribute taxable capital gains, with sche...

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... stop worrying about your investments.

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What advice do you have for preparing for the possibility of depression?

Pay off your mortgage and all other debts.

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I thought this was a housing play:

Medium-density fibreboard (MDF)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium-density_fibreboard

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2016-09-09/vanguard-s-jack-bogle-on-indexing-negative-rates Vanguard's Jack Bogle on Indexing, Negative Rates September 9, 2016 Mutual fund sage and founder of the Vanguard Group Jack Bogle hits back at critics of indexing, the practice of organizing one's portf...

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What you have described is known as a "multi-factor" ETF.

Here is one example:
https://www.ishares.com/us/products/272824/ishares-msci-usa-multi-factor-etf

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Don't forget the 4 to 9% "placement fee"

The estimated value of your CDs at the time the terms of your CDs are set on the trade

date is expected to be between $910 and $960 per $1,000 face amount. See page S-3.

This thing stinks worse than the dumpster behind a fish market.

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Qualifying Income for Roth IRAs
http://fairmark.com/retirement/roth-accounts/contributions-to-roth-accounts/qualifying-income-for-ira-contributions/

Don't forget Spousal IRAs
http://fairmark.com/retirement/roth-accounts/contributions-to-roth-accounts/spousal-roth-ira/

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The Wiki has a nice section on bonds, which explains duration:
https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Bonds:_advanced_topics

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If you're trying to cheer us up, you need to try harder.

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The recorded presentation is available on Vimeo

"David and Goliath: Who Wins the Game of Quantitative Investing?"

https://vimeo.com/164907471

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William Bernstein called it two years ago. ETF.com: Do you have a sense, as I do, that “factor-focused” investing is reaching some critical mass these days—and that we can see that in the behavior of the Wall Street marketing machine? Bernstein: I think so. The bozos have jumped into the factors wit...

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Investing in low cost index funds IS brilliance!

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This sounds like a good topic for the Wiki.

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How to Retire with Enough Money: And How to Know What Enough Is

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0761186131?keywords=How%20to%20retire%20with%20enough%20money&qid=1453387226&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1

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https://www.facebook.com/groups/1649504642004285/

Dough Rollers on Facebook

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Some may remember that in 2002 the managers of TBM fund
decided to overweight corporate bonds to "improve performance".
This backfired badly and the fund trailed the index by a couple of percentage points.

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indexingfun wrote: Given the limited availability of AQR and DFA funds to investors without advisors, are there other funds/ETFs that combine momentum and value factors effectively in similar ways? A Suite of New Multifactor ETFs for Your Watchlist Credible factors cleverly combined make the MSCI Fa...

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Vanguard has in the past offered to send me a copy of their research report wherein they concluded 40% int'l equities is recommended, but I've yet to actually see it. I am interested to know what sort of data sample they used, so I can form my own opinion of the strength of their recommendation, bu...

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Mel, Hopefully he learned something after reading our book. He said he read the section on annuities (I bookmarked it for him) and returned it to me. His wife said he is still leaning towards getting one. Why pay high expenses, exposure yourself, high surrender fees and pay higher taxes when there a...

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All the advice you need is in seven letters: "Run away!" I'm with you on that, but he is not going rely soley on my advice. I think he regards the Bogleheads as excessively frugal. So I am seeking input from an 'authority' he might trust. I will order Larry's book. Hopefully that will do ...

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A relative is considering a variable annuity as a tax deferral/pension replacement vehicle. I have lent him my copy of "The Bogleheads Guide to Investing" which has a short section on annuities. I have read the Bogleheads Wiki page on variable annuities and its' references. What other reso...

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I believe it was Albert Einstein who said: "Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler" If there are proven benefits to making changes to your portfolio, then you should make them. I think this applies to the tax-related changes you listed. Not sure about the 403b, need mo...

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First, assuming attractive but lower-than-historical rewards (the numerator) seems prudent.[27] Recall we believe this “lower-than-historical” verdict applies even more so to traditional long-only capitalization-weighted stock and bond markets (index returns). Thus, the marginal benefit of adding t...

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To provide individual investors with a range of money market funds that maintain a stable $1 NAV, we'll designate 7 money market funds as "retail": Vanguard Prime Money Market Fund Vanguard California Tax-Exempt Money Market Fund Vanguard New Jersey Tax-Exempt Money Market Fund Vanguard Ne...

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https://www.progressive.com/auto/bundling-insurance/

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I see Rudolph!

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FYI

6 Features Disappearing in Windows 10 (and How to Replace Them)
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2485170,00.asp

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If you like TIPS, why not use Lifestrategy Growth and enough of ST TIPS fund to get you to 60/40.

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I just found this. Apparently everyone on Win 7 and 8 will get it.

Windows 10 Arrives on July 29
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2485143,00.asp

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I just got an offer for a free Windows 10 upgrade, full version, not a trial. Has anyone else received this offer? Is it a good idea to get the first version? I have heard it is better to wait for SP1 when they have fixed most of the bugs. I have also heard that an upgraded OS is not a stable as the...

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