Awards & Recognition
★Fortune's 'Investment Giants of the 20th Century' (1999)
★Time's '100 Most Powerful and Influential People' (2004)
★Institutional Investor's Lifetime Achievement Award (2004)
★Princeton University Woodrow Wilson Award (1999)
★Award for Professional Excellence from Association for Investment Management and Research (1998)
★Elected to American Philosophical Society (2004)
Notable Facts
→Founded The Vanguard Group in 1974, now one of world's largest investment management companies with $5+ trillion in assets
→Created the first index mutual fund for individual investors in 1976
→Credited with popularizing index fund investing and revolutionizing the mutual fund industry
→Author of 10+ bestselling books on investing including 'Common Sense on Mutual Funds'
→Died January 16, 2019 at age 89 with net worth of $80 million
→Founded Bogle Financial Markets Research Center after retiring from Vanguard
→Inspired devoted following known as 'Bogleheads' with dedicated investment philosophy forum