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This will be my only post of the week, as I am currently on a family vacation in New York City. I spent today in the Financial District, approaching bankers and other well-dressed individuals on Wall Street and asking them if they had considered embracing a low-cost indexing strategy. Most ignored me. Some swore colourfully. [...]
This will be my only post of the week, as I am currently on a family vacation in New York City. I spent today in the Financial District, approaching bankers and other well-dressed individuals on Wall Street and asking them if they had considered embracing a low-cost indexing strategy. Most ignored me. Some swore colourfully. My children were frightened.
During quieter moments, I’m rounding out my summer reading this week with John Bogle’s Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life
Amen to all three points. It’s hard to overstate the influence that Vanguard and Bogle himself have had on investing in the United States. Not only is Vanguard now the largest mutual fund company in the world, but the fact that investors have the option of choosing its funds, with their extraordinarily low costs, has changed the mutual fund landscape in that country. If a fund company tried to charge Canadian-style fees in the U.S., they would be run out of town by angry mobs with pitchforks. Rumours have floated around since last year that Vanguard may eventually come to Canada: that day can’t come soon enough.
One final note: Thanks to everyone who signed up to follow the blog on Twitter (@CdnCouchPotato). The winner of the Cutco potato masher is Tim, the blogger behind Canadian Dream: Free at 45.
See you next week. Until then, stay passive, my friends.
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