Comments on: Bogel Said There’s “Trouble in Paradise”

By: John Bogle: The Little Book of Common Sense Investing - The Sun’s Financial Diary - Accumulating wealth is like building The Great Wall, one brick at a time

Sun, 04 Mar 2007 19:31:45 +0000

[...] by investing in ETFs that are lack of broad market coverage. In his previous comments on ETFs, Mr. Bogle said that “the newest ETFs have focused more and more on narrow segments of the [...]

By: Model Portfolios Built with ETFs (I) — Couch Potato Portfolio - The Sun’s Financial Diary - Accumulating wealth is like building The Great Wall, one brick at a time

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:06:31 +0000

[...] the ways to build portfolio based on those classic asset allocations. In fact, as ETFs rapidly gaining ground on mutual funds, largely due to their obvious benefits such as low cost and flexible pricing when [...]

By: Active vs. Passive — My Funds vs. Vanguard Funds in Fees and Returns - The Sun’s Financial Diary - Accumulating wealth is like building The Great Wall, one brick at a time

Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:02:52 +0000

[...] Except the first fund (ADVDX), after five years holding period, though I will pay $664 more in fees, I will have $2,421 more in total market value with my current funds than with Vanguard funds. For these extra returns, I am willing to pay that additional $664 fees. Actually, even Mr. Bogel, funder of Vanguard, admitted that the indexing movement isn't looking quite so triumphant these past few years as index mutual funds have taken less than a 7 percent share of assets in stock and bond mutual funds. [...]