Contributors
Recognizing those who have contributed their expertise for the benefit of the Boglehead community
Mr. Money Mustache is the website and pseudonym of Peter Adeney.. Adeney retired from his job as a software engineer in 2005 at age 30 by spending only a small percentage of his annual salary and consistently investing the remainder, primarily in stock market index finds. Peter contends that most individuals can and should spend less money and own fewer physical possessions. He argues that by doing this, they can live with increased financial freedom and happiness.
He has described the typical middle-class lifestyle as "an exploding volcano of wastefulness," particularly citing the overuse of and overspending on new cars as an example. The blog has been featured and cited in various media outlets including Market Watch , CBS News and The New Yorker., as well as others. Adeney was featured in the 2022 Netflix documentary Get Smart with Money .
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Dana Anspach is the founder and CEO of Sensible Money, LLC, a financial planning firm specializing in retirement income planning. In 2022, Sensible Money ranked on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing privately owned companies in the U.S.
She is the author of How to Plan for the Perfect Retirement, a lecture series on The Great Courses, and Control Your Retirement Destiny, available on Amazon. Her 2022 paper, Demonstrating Gamma with the Household Balance Sheet, won the Investments and Wealth Institute writing award. For her continuing contributions to financial literacy, Investopedia named her three times to the country's Top 100 Financial Advisors.
Practicing since 1995, Dana is a Certified Financial Planner, Retirement Management Advisor, and a Kolbe Certified Consultant.
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Dan Ariely is a James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University, with appointments in the Fuqua School of Business, the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, the School of Medicine and the department of Economics. He is also the founder of the Center for Advanced Hindsight. He has a BA in psychology from Tel Aviv University, an MA and PhD in cognitive psychology from the University of North Carolina, and a PhD in business administration from Duke University. After graduating from Duke in 1998, he took a position at MIT, where he was the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Behavioral Economics. He was also a member at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton during a 2 year break from MIT.
Over the years Dan has published his research in psychology, economics, medical, and business academic journals, and has written four general audience books about his research - Predictably Irrational, The Upside of Irrationality, The Honest Truth about Dishonesty, and Payoff.
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Hozef Arif is a Senior Portfolio Manager for fixed income strategies at Avantis Investors®. Hozef joined Avantis Investors in 2020. Prior to Avantis Investors, he was an executive vice president and credit portfolio manager at Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO) for twelve years. While at PIMCO, he managed a variety of strategies in global high yield credit funds. Prior to that, he worked as a leveraged finance investment banker at Credit Suisse.
Hozef holds an undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai, an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, and a masters degree in petroleum engineering from Stanford University.
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Theodore (Ted) Aronson is the Founder of Aronson, Johnson, and Ortiz (AJO), an institutional investment advisor with $20 billion under management.
He has an B.S. and M.B.A, The Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, and is on the Spelman College Board of Trustees. Ted joined Drexel Burnham Lambert in 1974 while still a graduate student where he was a member of the Quantitative Equities Group, which provided innovative practical applications of modern portfolio theory and quantitative portfolio management.
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Dr. Cliff Asness is a Founder, Managing Principal, and Chief Investment Officer at AQR Capital Management, a quantitative money manager overseeing $186 billion in assets as of December 2019. Prior to co-founding AQR Capital Management, he was a Managing Director and Director of Quantitative Research for the Asset Management Division of Goldman, Sachs & Co. He is an award-winning researcher on quantitative investment strategies and has authored articles for many publications, including The Journal of Portfolio Management, Financial Analysts Journal, The Journal of Finance, and The Journal of Financial Economics.
Cliff received a B.S. in economics from the Wharton School and a B.S. in engineering from the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating summa cum laude in both. He received an M.B.A. with high honors and a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Chicago, where he was Eugene Fama's student and teaching assistant for two years.
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Eric Balchunas is the Senior ETF Analyst, Bloomberg Intelligence. In this role, he writes research, articles and feature stories about ETFs for the Bloomberg terminal and Bloomberg.com. He also appears in a weekly on-air segment for Bloomberg TV and Radio called "Exchange-Traded Friday" in which he discusses different ETFs and the way investors can utilize them.
He is author of the book The Institutional ETF Toolbox, which was published by Wiley. The book is at once a primer on ETFs that both novices and professionals can understand as well as a guide to doing proper due diligence on the fast-growing world of ETFs.
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Brad Barrett is the host of the top 50 business podcast ChooseFI, and a certified public accountant. He has a passion for financial independence and helping people take action to make their lives richer in every way: wealth, health, connections and ultimately happiness. Brad achieved Financial Independence at 35 and lives in Richmond, Virginia with his wife and 2 daughters.
Brad received his BS in Accounting at the University of Richmond - Robins School of Business.
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Ryan Barret is a member of both the State Bar of California and Utah State Bar. Ryan is an estate planning attorney who began his legal career in southern California ten years ago after obtaining a Juris Doctor as well as a Master of Business Administration from a concurrent program at Pepperdine Law and Pepperdine Graziadio Business School.
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Josh Barrickman, CFA, is a principal, senior portfolio manager, and head of Fixed Income Indexing Americas. He and his team manage bond index fund portfolios invested in U.S. and international bond markets (including government, mortgage-backed, and corporate securities). The team also manages several bond index ETFs.
Mr. Barrickman, who joined Vanguard in 1998, has more than 15years of fixed income experience. He is a CFA® charterholder and earned a B.S. at Ohio Northern University and an M.B.A.at Lehigh University.
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Meg Bartelt is the founder of Flow Financial Planning, a virtual, fee-only financial planning firm, in 2016 to help women in tech cultivate financial and professional strength. Flow is a Registered Investment Advisor in the states of Washington, California, and New York, and serves clients everywhere.
Meg received her B.A. in economics from Wellesley College. She received an M.S in financial planning from Golden Gate University
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William P. Bengen received a B.S. from M.I.T. in Aeronautics & Astronautics and a M.S. from the College for Financial Planning. He has had four careers: trained as an aerospace engineer, CEO of his family’s soft drink bottling business (NY), fee-only financial planning practitioner (CA), and currently a financial researcher and aspiring novelist (AZ). He is a former CFP ® licensee. In the early 1990’s, in response to client questions, Mr. Bengen began research on the sustainability of withdrawals from stock and bond portfolios, which gave rise to the so-called “4% Rule.” He is frequently quoted in major financial publications, and appears regularly on financial industry podcasts. In 2014 he received NAPFA’s Robert J. Underwood Distinguished Service Award and in 2017 the InvestmentNews Innovators Award. He currently lives in SaddleBrooke, AZ, where he is working on a new book about the “4% Rule.”
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Christine Benz is director of personal finance and retirement planning for Morningstar and senior columnist for Morningstar.com. In that role, she focuses on retirement and portfolio planning for individual investors. She also co-hosts a podcast for Morningstar, The Long View, which features in-depth interviews with thought leaders in investing and personal finance. She is a frequent public speaker and is widely quoted in the media, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, CNBC, and PBS. In 2020, Barron’s named her to its inaugural list of the 100 most influential women in finance; she appeared on the 2021 list as well. In 2021, Barron’s named her as one of the 10 most influential women in wealth management.
Benz is author of 30-Minute Money Solutions: A Step-by-Step Guide to Managing Your Finances (Wiley, 2010). She is also co-author of Morningstar® Guide to Mutual Funds: 5-Star Strategies for Success, a national bestseller published in 2003, and author of the book’s second edition, which was published in 2005. Before assuming her current role in 2008, she served as Morningstar's director of mutual fund analysis and was editor of Morningstar Mutual Funds and Morningstar FundInvestor.
Benz holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and Russian/East European studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a board member of the John C. Bogle Center for Financial Literacy. Benz is also a member of The Alpha Group, a group of thought leaders from the wealth management industry from across the country. In her free time, she works with underprivileged women to improve their understanding of personal finance concepts.
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2024 Conference: Organizer, Speaker
2023 Conference: Organizer, Speaker
2022 Conference: Organizer, Keynote, Speaker, Moderator and Panelist
Bogleheads Live Episode 5 with Christine Benz - Aug 6. 2022
Bogleheads Chapter Series: What if this is a terrible time to retire - Jan 22, 2022
Bogleheads Chapter Series: Investing and Planning Wisely - Oct 5, 2021
Bogleheads Chapter Series: Six Retirement Blind Spots - Aug 25. 2021
Bogleheads Speaker Series with the Panel of Experts - Feb 19, 2021
Bogleheads on Investing Episode 4 with Christine Benz - Dec 30, 2018
Rob Berger has been writing about investing and retirement since 2007, After spending 25 years as a securities litigator in Washington DC, he retired in 2016 to continue his research and writing on retirement. Since then he published his first book, Retire Before Mom and Dad, launched a YouTube channel, and continues writing about investing and retirement at RobBerger.com.
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William J. Bernstein is a neurologist, co-founder of Efficient Frontier Advisors, an investment management firm, and has written several titles on finance and economic history. He has contributed to the peer-reviewed finance literature and has written for several national publications, including Money Magazine and The Wall Street Journal. He has produced several finance titles such as The Intelligent Asset Allocator and The Four Pillars of Investing, and also four volumes of history, The Birth of Plenty, A Splendid Exchange, Masters of the Word, and The Delusions of Crowds, about, respectively, the economic growth inflection of the early 19th century, the history of world trade, the effects of access to technology on human relations and politics, and the history and psychology of mass manias. He was also the 2017 winner of the James R. Vertin Award from CFA Institute.
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2024 Conference: Guest Speaker
2023 Conference: Guest Speaker
2022 Conference: Fireside Chat Guest and Panelist
Bogleheads Live with Dr. William Bernstein - Jun. 2022
Bogleheads Speaker Series with Bill Bernstein - Apr. 2021
Bogleheads Speaker Series with the Panel of Experts - Feb 19, 2021
Bogleheads on Investing Podcast - Episode 13 - September 30, 2019
David Blanchett, Ph.D., CFA, CFP®, is the Managing Director, Head of Retirement Research, PGIM DC Solutions. Prior to gaining this position, David was the head of retirement research for Morningstar’s Investment Management group.
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Dr. David Blitzer, Managing Director and Chairman of the Index Committee at S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) with overall responsibility for index security selection, as well as index analysis and management.
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Andrew Bogle is a son of John Bogle. He is a Managing Director at Reva Capital in New York, NY where he connects people seeking capital with those seeking investment deals. In addition, he talks with early-stage startup founders to learn their biggest and nearest term hurdles and goals. He provides advice and introductions to people who can assist the startup. He is not paid for his introductions nor advice but has been asked and joined as an advisor for a few and does a tiny bit of angel investing.
His career has been eclectic since graduation from Connecticut College in 1994 with a B.A. in Economics. He worked in operations at Brown Brothers Harriman (Boston) and did sales at a small company (Washington D.C.) selling financial information (low-end Bloomberg, FactSet) before attaining his M.B.A. at Vanderbilt University in 2004. He joined Morgan Stanley's Private Wealth Management Group (NYC) for 16 months then went to work for Robin Hood Foundation (NYC).
He serves on the Board of Trustees at Kent School where he serves on five committees. He also sits on the Board of a family foundation. He has served on Board of Directors of GO Project (non-profit in NYC) as well as the Alumni Board of the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University.
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Lauren Boland is the developer of cFIREsim. She is an experienced developer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Python, Django, Linux System Administration, Test Planning, HTML, and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC). Strong engineering professional with a Masters of Science focused in Systems Engineering from The George Washington University.
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Nicole Boyson's research and teaching interests fall in the area of investments and corporate finance, with a focus on regulatory arbitrage, hedge fund management, and hedge fund activism.
Prior to joining the DMSB faculty in 2004, Professor Boyson was an Assistant Professor at Purdue University. Prior to joining Purdue, Professor Boyson was a manager for Ernst & Young, the VP of Investments for Pension Consulting Services, an analyst for Third Federal Savings and Loan, and a senior accountant at KPMG Peat Marwick.
A Certified Public Accountant, Professor Boyson serves on the Editorial Board of the Financial Analysts Journal, has served on the board of the Midwest Finance Association, has been a member of numerous program committees of professional organizations, and acts as an ad-hoc referee for journals including The Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, and The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.
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Lisa Bragança, JD, MBA, is a former Branch Chief in the Division of Enforcement of the Chicago Office of the Securities & Exchange Commission. She handled investigations of accounting fraud, Ponzi schemes, insider trading, churning, and unsuitable investments. Today, Lisa is now in private practice at Bragança Law.
Throughout her career, Lisa has been an advocate for the rights of people with physical, cognitive, and psychiatric disabilities. She previously served as counsel in three statewide class actions seeking to compel the State of Illinois to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. She also regularly speaks about elder financial exploitation, securities regulation, recovering investment losses, and cryptocurrency.
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Maria Bruno is the head of U.S. Wealth Planning Research at Vanguard, leading a team responsible for conducting research and analysis on a wide range of retirement, wealth planning, and portfolio construction topics. In this role, she also contributes to the oversight of the investment philosophy, methodology, and wealth management strategies supporting Vanguard's advisory products and services.
Ms. Bruno has served in a variety of advice-related and leadership roles, including as a practitioner in Vanguard Personal Financial Planning and Advice Services departments, where she created comprehensive financial plans, managed a team of financial planners, and developed Vanguard's advice programs and educational materials. She has more than 25 years of experience in the financial services industry and is widely quoted in the news media on financial planning subjects, regularly blogs on Vanguard's website, and participates in webcasts and podcasts. Ms. Bruno earned a B.S.B.A. from Villanova University and holds the Certified Financial Planner certification.
Randy Bruns is the founder of Model Wealth and a Senior Financial Planner with the firm. He is a past President of the Financial Planning Association of Illinois (FPA-Illinois), has been a guest lecturer for the University of Illinois’ financial planning program, and is an outspoken proponent in favor of a higher fiduciary standard for the financial services industry.
In 2018, Randy was recognized by InvestmentNews as part of its prestigious “40 Under 40” class of honorees doing remarkable things in the field of financial planning. A year later he’d be recognized by Morningstar Magazine for providing complimentary financial advice to underserved communities while helping reshape the financial planning profession.
Randy designed Model Wealth to give consumers a more pure and transparent financial planning experience than the sales-focused environment typical of Wall Street. His team specializes in hourly-based advice and, when appropriate, packages it with ongoing investment management for a flat annual fee.
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Broc Buckles is the co-founder of BC Brokerage and the co-host of the Only Fee Only Podcast. Broc has a certified license in life and health insurance from the state of Indiana.
Broc received his B.S. in Communication from Ball State University.
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Scott Burns is the pen name for Robert Burns. As a syndicated newspaper columnist and author he has covered personal finance, investments and economics for over 40 years. He is best known for creating the “Couch Potato Portfolio” investment strategy, which advocates the use of index funds over managed funds or stock picking.[1] In 2006, he retired from the Dallas Morning News to co-found the Web startup AssetBuilder. The registered investment advisor firm now has over 1,200 clients in 43 states and manages $800 million in assets. He retired from the firm and syndication in early 2017. After a year of retirement, he created this website, his latest effort to bring financial confidence and success to as many people as possible.
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Edward Chancellor is a financial historian, journalist, and investment strategist. Ed graduated with first-class honors from Trinity College, Cambridge, and later from Oxford University. He worked for the London merchant bank, Lazard Brothers, and was later an editor at the financial commentary site, Breakingviews of Reuters. Ed was also a senior member of the asset allocation team at GMO, the Boston-based investment firm.
In 2022, Fortune called Ed "one of the greatest financial historians alive". He is noted for his prescient warnings of the last three major economic bubbles in his published works: Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation (1999), Crunch-Time for Credit? (2005) and The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest (2022).
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Jamie Catherwood is a financial historian and the publisher of the website Investor Amnesia. He received a history degree from King's College London in 2017 before joining O'Shaughnessy Asset Management, a quantitative investment firm based out of Stamford, Connecticut. Jamie quickly built his reputation as an expert on the history of money and finance after starting a popular weekly blog that links current market activity and investor behavior to similar events and investor behaviors throughout the centuries.
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Steve is the founder and CEO of of NewRetirement. The company has helped millions of people find ways to improve their finances and life through a financial planning platform that provides DIY software, articles, podcasts, classes, coaches and access to Certified Financial Planners on at a low flat fee.
Steve has founded companies in education, consulting and financial services that have raised tens of millions in venture capital and been valued at hundreds of millions of dollars. He is a product of a middle class upbringing and is thankful for his family, education and the amazing people that he's met in his life.
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Jonathan Clements is the founder and editor of HumbleDollar. During Jonathan's long career as a financial writer he has worked for Euromoney, Forbes, and The Wall Street Journal. He is also the author of eight personal finance books, his latest being From Here to Financial Happiness.
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JL (Jim) Collins is the author of “The Simple Path To Wealth: Your Road to Financial Independence and a Rich, Free Life”, and a proponent of the FIRE movement which stands for “Financial Independence, Retire Early”. He’s also a popular American financial blogger at JLCollinsnh.com.
Collins takes a refreshingly simple approach to long-term investments that can easily be replicated by individual investors. As a follower of Vanguard’s founder John Bogle and the Oracle of Omaha’s Warren Buffett, Collins is a proponent of broad-based index funds (such as Vanguard) due to their low expense fees and ability to closely track the stock market index.
His blog originally started as a series of letters to his daughter and family members to help them learn from his investing and personal finance mistakes. This later turned into a business when he monetized his blog and published his book in 2016.Contributions:
Paulo Costa is a Behavioral Economist and Investment Strategist on the Investor Behavior team within the Vanguard Investment Strategy Group. Dr. Costa’s current research examines how much investors value financial advice, the safe withdrawal rate for F.I.R.E. (Financial Independence Retire Early) investors, and investors’ financial well-being.
Prior to joining Vanguard, his research focused on quantitative equity strategies and how the framing of financial information affects investor behavior. Paulo holds a B.A. in Economics from Yale University and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.
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Gail Cox is a flight attendant for American Airlines. She has served capably for many years on the Bogleheads Conference organizing committee.
Gail Cox is a flight attendant for American Airlines. She has served capably for many years on the Bogleheads Conference organizing committee.
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Former Bogle Center Board member
Dr. Daniel Crosby is a psychologist and behavioral finance expert who helps organizations and individuals understand the intersection of mind and markets. He was named one of the “12 Thinkers to Watch” by Monster.com, a “Financial Blogger You Should Be Reading” by AARP, and a member of InvestmentNews prestigious "40 Under 40".
Dr. Crosby was educated at Brigham Young and Emory Universities and is the author of several books on behavioral finance. His first book, Personal Benchmark: Integrating Behavioral Finance and Investment Management, was a New York Times bestseller. His second book, The Laws of Wealth, was named the best investment book of 2017 by the Axiom Business Book Awards. His latest work, The Behavioral Investor, is an in-depth look at how sociology, psychology and neurology all impact investment decision-making.
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James M. Dahle, M.D., FACEP, is a full-time emergency room doctor, entrepreneur, writer, speaker, father, and is an inspiration to thousands of young doctors, dentists, lawyers, and other professionals who are seeking straight answers to personal finance questions. He started The White Coat Investor in 2011 to help those in the medical profession became the wealthy doctors that people think they are, and it has grown into the most widely-read physician-specific personal finance and investing website in the world.
Jim published The White Coat Investor, A Doctor's Guide to Personal Finance and Investing in 2014, and more recently published The White Coat Investor's Financial Boot Camp: A 12-Step High-Yield Guide to Bring Your Finances Up to Speed.
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Leif Dahleen has been a Boglehead reader and occasional poster for the last decade. With the knowledge gained from the forum, wiki, and a handful of blogs, he figured out that he could afford to retire quite early from his career as an anesthesiologist, which he did in 2019 at the age of 43.
In the meantime, he started a website of his own, Physician on FIRE, to help reach others like him and preach on all topics related to financial independence. He has since passed the torch to other enterprising physicians, having sold the business in 2023. He resides in northern Michigan with his wife and two teenage boys, and he's happy to return to his home state of Minnesota for this conference, his 30th high school reunion, a couple of Golden Gopher football games, and a running of the Twin Cities Marahon.
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Karen Damato is the content manager at a major law firm in New York, after a long career as a personal finance journalist. She was an assistant managing editor of Time Inc.'s Money brand and, before that, spent more than 30 years as a writer and editor at The Wall Street Journal. Her roles at the Journal included "Ask Encore" columnist, news editor overseeing the monthly Investing in Funds & ETFs reports, and Wealth Editor. She has attended several Bogleheads conferences, starting with Diehards IV in Denver in 2004.
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Michelle Dash is the Director of Consumer Product and Services at NewRetirement, where she manages strategic partnerships, services, support, education, and the Virtual Financial Advisor product to help people prepare for financial independence and make smarter choices for retirement.
Michelle received her B.A from the University of Michigan and her Masters of Science from DePaul University.
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Joseph Davis, Ph.D., a Vanguard principal, is the global chief economist and global head of Vanguard Investment Strategy Group, whose research and client-facing team develops asset allocation strategies and conducts research on the capital markets, the global economy, portfolio construction, and related investment topics. Mr. Davis also chairs the firm's Strategic Asset Allocation Committee for multi-asset-class investment solutions.
As Vanguard's chief economist, Mr. Davis is a member of the senior portfolio management team for Vanguard Fixed Income Group. He is a frequent keynote speaker, has published white papers in leading academic and practitioner journals, and helped develop Vanguard Capital Markets Model® and the firm's annual economic and capital markets outlook. Mr. Davis earned his B.A. from Saint Joseph's University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics at Duke University.
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Phil DeMuth is an investment advisor. He was valedictorian of his class at the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1972, and then went on for his master's in communication and Ph.D. in clinical psychology.
Phil is the author of nine books on investing, most co-authored with his friend, economist Ben Stein, and some of which have been New York Times bestsellers. His latest book is The Overtaxed Investor: Slash Your Tax Bill & Be a Tax Alpha Dog.
A psychologist and investment advisor, Phil has written for the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Forbes, the Journal of Financial Planning, Human Behavior and Psychology Today.
His opinions have been quoted in the New York Times, the Financial Times, Yahoo! Finance, On Wall Street, Fortune, Research Magazine, Investor's Business Daily, Motley Fool, theStreet.com, and Playboy. He has been seen on various TV shows, including Consuelo Mack WealthTrack, CNBC's Worldwide Exchange, On the Money, Squawk Box and Closing Bell, as well as Fox & Friends, and Wall Street Week..
For his day job, Phil runs Conservative Wealth Management LLC.
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Joel M. Dickson, Ph.D., is Principal and Global Head of Advice Methodology. He oversees all investment methodology development for Vanguard’s advice programs whose end consumers are individual investors. He chairs Vanguard's Advice Policy Committee and is a member of Vanguard's Strategic Asset Allocation Committee.
Since joining Vanguard in 1996, Mr. Dickson has held a number of senior investment- related roles, most recently leading the Investment Research and Development function focused on identifying next-generation investment solutions. He also led Vanguard’s ETF industry thought leadership research team within Vanguard Investment Strategy Group, analyzing trends and developments in the exchange-traded fund (ETF) market. Prior to those roles, Mr. Dickson served as the head of the Active Quantitative Equity Group with oversight responsibility for all research and portfolio management activities associated with Vanguard’s internally managed active equity portfolios.
Before joining Vanguard, Mr. Dickson worked as a staff economist at the Federal Reserve Board. He has testified before U.S. Congressional committees on Social Security reform and mutual fund disclosure issues, and he is often quoted in the press regarding the role taxes play in portfolio management and asset allocation decisions.
Mr. Dickson earned an A.B. from Washington University in St. Louis and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.
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Laura Dogu is an author, diplomat and former United States Ambassador to Nicaragua.
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Former Bogle Center Board member
Annie Duke an American former professional poker player and author in cognitive-behavioral decision science and decision education. Annie has authored two books on decision-making, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts, and How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices.
Annie received her B.A. in English and Psychology from Columbia University, and received an M.A. in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Susan Dziubinski is Director of Content at Morningstar. She began her Morningstar career in 1991 as an analyst for Morningstar Mutual Funds. As a senior product manager of content, Ms. Dziubinski helped launch the Morningstar Rating for Stocks and led several businesses, including Morningstar Mutual Funds, Morningstar's book business, and Morningstar's suite of stock and fund newsletters. In her current role, she focuses on making research from across Morningstar accessible to individual investors. She also writes Morningstar.com's Our Picks column.
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Daniel P. Egan is the Director of Behavioral Finance and Investing at Betterment and a leader in the field of improving personal decision making by understanding how psychology interacts with design, money, investing and spending. His research is reshaping how people interact with technology to make themselves better money managers. Dan holds an MSc in Decision Science from London School of Economics and a BA (Distinction) in Economics from Boston University.
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Charles Ellis is an American investment consultant. In 1972, Ellis founded Greenwich Associates, an international strategy consulting firm focused on financial institutions. The author of 18 books, Ellis is known for his philosophy of passive investing through index funds, as detailed in his book, Winning the Loser's Game.
His new book, Inside Vanguard. was published on October 25, 2022.
Ellis received a B.A. in Art History from Yale University. He received a Phd. in Economics from New York University.
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Robert Farrington is America's Millennial Money Expert® and America's Student Loan Debt Expert™, and the founder of The College Investor, a personal finance site dedicated to helping millennials escape student loan debt to start investing and building wealth for the future.
Robert received his B.A. in Political Science at the University of California, San Diego, and received an M.B.A in Entrepreneuriarial Studies at the University of California, San Diego - Rady School of Management.
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Rick has worked in the investment industry for about 35 years and has embraced a low-fee Bogleheads philosophy for more than 25 years. He is the founder and CEO of Ferri Investment Solutions where he advises do-it-yourself individuals for fix-rate and hourly fees. Rick started his career in 1989 as a Wall Street broker, and 1999, founded one of the nation’s first low-fee portfolio management companies where he grew assets to over $1.5 billion. In 2017, the firm was purchased by a private equity investor.
Rick has published extensively on the benefits of low-cost investing, including several books on index funds, ETFs, and asset allocation. He has also written for Forbes and The Wall Street Journal and is the creator and host of the “Bogleheads On Investing” podcast, a program sponsored by the John C. Bogle Center for Financial Literacy, a 501(C)3 organization.
Rick graduated from the University of Rhode Island with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration and from Walsh College with a Master of Science Degree in Finance. He became a CFA charterholder in 1994. Rick is also a retired Marine Corps officer, and flew jet fighters off aircraft carriers.
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2024 Conference: Guest Speaker
2023 Conference: Guest Speaker
Rick Ferri served as president of the Bogle Center from 2019 through 2022.
Host of Bogleheads on Investing Podcast
Steven Fox, CFP®, EA is the founder of Next Gen Financial Planning, a Registered Investment Advisor in the state of California providing comprehensive fee-only financial planning services for young professionals who want to learn how to use money as a tool to balance today’s pressing needs with tomorrow’s dreams.
Prior to starting Next Gen Financial Planning, Steven served over 8 years on active duty in the United States Marine Corps. After separating with an honorable discharge, he attended San Diego State University where he graduated with honors while earning a bachelors degree in financial services, a certificate in personal financial planning, and a minor in entrepreneurship. He has also held positions with several other financial planning firms.
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Mary Beth Franklin is one of the country’s leading experts on Social Security and Medicare. An award-winning journalist and Certified Financial Planner, Mary Beth writes a weekly column on retirement issues for Investment News, a publication for financial advisers. She is also author of the ebook, Maximizing Social Security Retirement Benefits (www.MaximingSocialSecurityBenefits.com )
Mary Beth’s column was recognized by Editor and Publisher with an EPPY award for best business blog of 2021. In 2016, the Women’s Institute for a Secure Retirement honored Mary Beth with a Hero Award for her efforts to improve retirement security for women. She is also serves on the CFP Board’s Women’s Initiative Council, which focuses on improving gender and racial diversity in the financial services profession.
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Christine Franquin is a principal and senior portfolio manager in the Vanguard Equity Index Group.
Christine manages several equity and balanced funds, including funds for U.S. and international investors as well as indexed separate accounts
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Debbie is the Managing Partner & Founder of ETFGI, the world’s leading independent research company. ETFGI has become the dominant independent research and consulting provider providing insights on the entire global industry of ETFs and ETPs listed globally as well as the service providers.
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Brandon Ganch, is better known as blogger, The Mad Fientist. Brandon describes his efforts as, "By analyzing the tax code and looking at personal finance through the lens of early financial independence, I develop advanced strategies, spreadsheets, and software tools to help you retire even earlier."
Brandon received his B.S. degree in computer science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and received his Masters Degree from Dartmouth.
Brandon currently resides in Scotland.
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Ann Garcia is a fee-only fiduciary advisor and go-to expert on paying for college. She is the author of the critically-acclaimed "How to Pay for College" and a sought-after media guest who's been quoted in the New York Times, the Oregonian, and U.S. News and World Report, to name a few. Ann recently launched an interactive online course to help parents (and their advisors) affordably build saving for college and applying for aid into their broader financial plan. As a parent whose twins just graduated from college, Ann's expertise expands beyond FAFSAs and 529s — she understands the emotional components of helping your child set and achieve goals for their future. Outside of financial planning, Ann is an avid runner, skier and fan of middle school rock concerts.
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Cody Garrett, CFP, is the founder of Measure Twice Financial, a fee-only, advice only financial planning service, based in Houston, Texas.
Garrett has written articles appearing in Forbes, Barron’s, Yahoo Finance, FOX Business, MarketWatch, Morningstar, Business Insider, Morning Brew, and CNBC.
Cody is an alumnus of The University of Houston and completed the CFP certification program at Rice University.
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Sheryl Garrett, CFP, is the founder of the Garrett Planning Network, a nationwide network of more than 300 hourly based financial advisors whose mission is to help make competent, objective financial advice accessible to all people.
Garrett is frequently quoted in media and a recipient of numerous awards and recognition for her contributions in the field of financial advice. She's written, co-authored or served as a series editor on more than a dozen books and has been very involved in financial education and awareness and investor protection.
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Diane Gaswirth is the Sales Director at United Healthcare. In her role at United Healthcare Diane attempts to simplify Medicare and help consumers get the health care they deserve. Responsible for Medicare membership health plan acquisition, retention and business development, she provides options for business professionals and their clients, community organizations, employers and individuals, alike.
Diane studied music theory and composition at Gettysburg College and received a Bachelor of Arts in psychology at UC San Diego and a Masters of Science in Health Services Administration at California State University at Northridge.
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Based in New York, Nick manages the global fixed income index product team at Bloomberg. The main responsibilities of his team include: new product development and research, ETF pipeline and senior relationship management, consulting with clients on development of custom index products, marketing/support of the entire suite of fixed income indices, implementation of robust governance structure and process. Nick has been with the index business since 1992 at Lehman Brothers and subsequently at Barclays since 2008.
In his years at Lehman Brothers he managed the U.S. index team from 1998 – 2005 and managed the global index business from 2005 – 2008. He also worked extensively marketing the portfolio management tools PC Product and POINT.
Nick began his professional career at JP Morgan working from 1987-1992 in their systems development department. He holds an M.B.A. in finance from New York University and a B.A. in computer science and mathematics from Boston College.
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Dr. Wesley R. "Wes" Gray is the CEO of Alpha Architect, an author, portfolio manager, United States Marine, Iraq War vet, and a former professor of finance at Drexel University. He earned an MBA and a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Chicago where he studied under Nobel Prize Winner Eugene Fama. Dr. Gray has published multiple academic papers and four books, including Embedded (Naval Institute Press, 2009), Quantitative Value (Wiley, 2012), DIY Financial Advisor (Wiley, 2015), and Quantitative Momentum (Wiley, 2016). His research-intensive asset management firm focuses on high-conviction value and momentum factor exposure.
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Adam Grossman is a Boston-based financial planner. After working for traditional firms for several years, Adam started Mayport Wealth Management in an effort to provide individual investors with an alternative. Specifically, Mayport works with clients on a flat-fee basis, rather than the traditional 1%-of-assets that is the industry norm.
Since 2017, Adam has been featured weekly on HumbleDollar, a personal finance site edited by former Wall Street Journal writer and author Jonathan Clements. Adam also contributed a chapter to Jonathan’s book My Money Journey. Adam has been featured on MarketWatch, in U.S. News and in other personal finance outlets.
Adam is a graduate of Williams College, with a degree in Political Economy, and holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is also a CFA charterholder.
Mayport currently manages $400 million for high-net-worth families.
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Jordan Grumet, born in Evanston, Illinois in 1973, found the spark to become a doctor after a deeply personal event reshaped his life's trajectory. The unexpected loss of his father, an oncologist, ignited a passion within him to practice medicine and instilled a unique vantage point that later melded seamlessly with his financial expertise. This convergence of roles has spurred him to explore profound notions like wealth, abundance, and financial independence with a thoughtful and critical lens.
Completing his studies at the University of Michigan, Jordan earned his medical degree from Northwestern University before embarking on a journey in Internal Medicine in Northbrook, Illinois. Presently, he serves as an associate medical director at Journeycare Hospice.
With a profound understanding of both medicine and finance, Jordan shared his thoughts through blogging, specifically focusing on financial independence and wellness. This passion culminated in the launch of the Earn & Invest podcast in 2018. His dedication bore fruit in 2019 when he was honored with the Plutus Award for Best New Personal Finance Podcast, followed by consecutive nominations for Best Personal Finance Podcast of the year in 2020 and 2021.
In August 2022, Jordan's literary pursuit took shape as his book, "Taking Stock: A Hospice Doctor’s Advice on Financial Independence, Building Wealth, and Living a Regret-Free Life" was published by Ulysses Press. Jordan's journey intertwines medical insight and financial wisdom, resonating deeply with those seeking a balanced, meaningful life.
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Dr. Ricardo “Rich” Guerra is an Interventional Cardiologist at North Texas Heart Center, based in Dallas, TX. He has been a Boglehead for many years and developed a passion for the Boglehead Way. After learning much from the experts and community members he met at local and annual meetings and from John Bogle himself, he was inspired by the drive embodied by so many to help others also achieve financial well-being. Guerra has chaired the Finance and Investing Committee of the Sarnoff Foundation for Cardiovascular Research and is active in the Bogleheads Community helping to spread the word to facilitate creating a world of well-informed, capable and empowered investors.
Dr. Ricardo Guerra is a medical doctor specializing in Cardiovascular Medicine. He is graduate of Harvard University and subsequently received his medical degree at the University of California, San Francisco and Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology training at Stanford and Vanderbilt Universities respectively. He is passionate about fostering innovation in the patient experience through technology and service. He enjoys aviation and has built and flies an experimental aircraft.
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Dr. Guerra has recorded videos of Boglehead Conferences, and oversees the Bogleheads YouTube channel.
Sarah Catherine (SC) Gutierrez is the CEO of Aptus Financial and holds an MPP from Harvard University and the Certified Financial Planner® and Chartered Retirement Plans Specialist designations. Her firm provides flat-fee financial planning services to early-career attending physicians and other young professionals. Aptus has helped more than 800 physicians DIY their finances by providing financial mentorship, personalized guidance, and simple, unbiased investment advice. In addition, her firm serves as fiduciary advisor to retirement plans and manages financial wellness and student loan advice programs for healthcare organizations and other companies, encompassing more than 60,000 employee participants. She is the author of But First, Save10: The One Simple Money Move That Will Change Your Life.
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Jonathan is a Cornerstone Principal and is recognized as a thought leader in the financial planning profession for his holistic work in the art and science of retirement planning. His specialties include retirement income planning and investment management with an emphasis on asset distribution and income tax planning.
Jon is best known as the author of “Decision Rules and Portfolio Management for Retirees: Is the ‘Safe’ Initial Withdrawal Rate Too Safe?”, published in the October 2004 Journal of Financial Planning and a winner of its national Call For Papers competition. He also co-authored “Decision Rules and Maximum Initial Withdrawal Rates” with computer scientist William Klinger in its March 2006 issue. Jon was named one of ’15 Transformational Advisors’ of the past twenty years in 2013 by the readers of Investment News. He currently serves as a retirement planning columnist for the Journal of Financial Planning; his recent columns appear in the Our Publications section of this site. He is also an Expert Panelist on Retirement for the Wall Street Journal and an Online Columnist for Time and Money. Jon is regularly quoted in the New York Times, USA Today, Forbes, Business Week, Research, and Kiplinger’s Personal Finance. He has been honored to make numerous presentations to literally thousands of colleagues based on his published writings and work with clients.
Jon graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the College of William and Mary in Virginia in 1983 with a B.A. in Economics and spent five years as a financial planner and national training officer for Ameriprise Financial (then IDS) before creating his own firm in 1990. He earned his CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ certification in 1989.
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Victor Haghani graduated from the London School of Economics in 1984 and returned in the
early 2000s as a Senior Research Associate in the LSE’s Financial Markets Group. He is a co-
author of The Missing Billionaires: A Guide to Better Financial Decisions (Wiley, 2023), which
was named to The Economist’s Best Books of 2023 list. He worked for Salomon Brothers in
New York in research and on the bond arbitrage desk from 1984-1993. In 1993, Victor was a co-
founding partner and co-headed the London office of the hedge fund Long-Term Capital
Management. He founded Elm Wealth in 2011 to help clients, including his own family, manage
and preserve their wealth through Dynamic Index Investing®, an investment approach
pioneered at Elm. Victor discussed the potential benefits of combining the best features of
passive and active investing in a TEDx talk he gave on investing, Where Are All the Billionaires
and Why Should We Care?. Victor has been a prolific contributor to the academic and
practitioner finance literature, writing many articles published in peer-reviewed academic
journals, anthologies, and mainstream news media. Victor has helped run several widely
referenced investor psychology experiments, often based on subjects betting real money on a
biased coin (you can play here and here).
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Matt Hougan is one of the world’s leading experts on crypto, ETFs, and financial
technology.
He is the Chief Investment Officer for Bitwise Asset Management, the world’s largest
provider of cryptocurrency index funds. He was previously CEO of ETF.com and Inside
ETFs, where he helped build the world’s first ETF data and analytics system, the
leading ETF media site, and the world’s largest ETF conference.
Matt is co-author of two publications for the CFA Institute Research Foundation: “A
Comprehensive Guide to Exchange-Traded Funds” and “Cryptoassets: The Guide to
Bitcoin, Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies for Professional Investors.”
He is a crypto columnist for Forbes, a three-time member of the Barron’s ETF
Roundtable, a member of the ETFdb’s ETF Hall of Fame, and the eighth person to
receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from ETF.com for contributions to the ETF
industry.
Hougan sits on the board of directors for Equbot, creator of the first AI-driven ETFs (in
partnership with IBM Watson), and is a strategic advisor to multiple crypto- and
financial advisor-related startups, including Blockworks, Stratifi, and Advisor Circle.
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Ben is a Certified Public Accountant, licensed in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As the Controller for Butler County (PA), he serves as a Trustee on the County's pension plan; continuing the legacy of investing all assets in low cost index funds—and saving taxpayers millions of dollars in fees annually. Ben received his accounting degree from Grove City College, and is a member of the Pennsylvania State Board of Accountancy. He is married to his wife Tricia, and together they are raising three sons - "Little Jack" according to Mr. Bogle, Samuel, and Levi.
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Derek Horstmeyer is a Professor of Finance for the School of Business, whose research focuses on boards/directors, ETF & mutual fund performance, and hedge fund activism. He writes a monthly column for the Wall Street Journal and has published in the Quarterly Journal of Finance, Managerial Finance, and other mainstream business publications. His work has been cited in Forbes, Bloomberg, CNBC, the PBS Newshour, Fox Business, NY Post, the Washington Post, LA Times, and other news outlets. He also co-founded and currently leads the first student-managed investment fund at GMU, and currently serves as director of the new Financial Planning & Wealth Management degree at Mason.
Derek received his B.S. degree in mathematics and economics from the University of Chicago and his M.S in financial economics from Stanford University
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Clark Howard is a consumer advocate and personal finance expert. He has been hosting the nationally-syndicated radio show and podcast, The Clark Howard Show, since 1989. Clark is also the author of 10 books, 3 of which have been New York Times bestsellers. He also sponsors The Community Action Center, which is a free resource for advice on money and consumer issues. He received his BA in Urban Government from American University and his MBA from Central Michigan University.
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Morgan Housel is an author of The Psychology of Money book and writes a blog as a partner at The Collaborative Fund. He is a former columnist at The Motley Fool and The Wall Street Journal, a two-time winner of the Best in Business Award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, winner of the New York Times Sidney Award, and a two-time finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism.
Morgan Housel is an author of The Psychology of Money book and writes a blog as a partner at The Collaborative Fund. He is a former columnist at The Motley Fool and The Wall Street Journal, a two-time winner of the Best in Business Award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, winner of the New York Times Sidney Award, and a two-time finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism.
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Jason Hsu, Ph.D., is one of the world's top thought leaders on factor investing and the co-creator of the fundamental indexing methodology. He has authored more than 40 peer-reviewed articles and won numerous research awards. Jason is a member of the board of directors at the Anderson School of Management at UCLA, as well as an adjunct professor in finance. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Investment Management and serves on the editorial board of the Financial Analysts Journal, the Journal of Index Investing, the Journal of Investment Consulting, and the Journal of Investment Management. Jason is the founder and chairman of Rayliant Global Advisors, and formally the co-founder and vice-chairman of Research Affiliates.
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Cameron Huddleston is an award-winning journalist with more than 17 years of experience writing about personal finance. Her work has appeared in Kiplinger's Personal Finance, Business Insider, Chicago Tribune, Fortune, MSN, USA Today, Yahoo and many more print and online publications. She is currently the Life + Money columnist for GOBankingRates. Cameron is the author of Mom and Dad, We Need to Talk: How to Have Essential Conversations with Your Parents About Their Finances.
U.S. News & World Report named her one of the top personal finance experts to follow on Twitter. Cameron has appeared on MSNBC, CNN and “Fox & Friends” and has been a guest on ABC News Radio, Wall Street Journal Radio, NPR and other personal finance radio shows nationwide. She also has been interviewed and quoted as an expert in The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, BBC.com, MarketWatch and more.
Cameron received her M.A. in journalism from American University.
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Antti Ilmanen is a Principal and Global Co-head of the Portfolio Solutions Group at AQR Capital Management. In this role, he manages the team responsible for advising institutional investors and sovereign wealth funds and develops the firm's broad investment ideas.
Prior to joining AQR, Antti spent seven years as a senior portfolio manager at Brevan Howard and a decade in a variety of roles at Salomon Brothers/Citigroup. He began his career as a central bank portfolio manager in Finland. Over the years, he has advised many institutional investors, including Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global and the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation.
Antti has published extensively in finance and investment journals and has received a Graham and Dodd award, the Harry M. Markowitz special distinction award, and multiple Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy awards for his articles.
Antti is the author of Expected Returns (Wiley, 2011), a broad synthesis of the central issues in investing, and Investing Amid Low Expected Returns (Wiley, 2022), which addresses the challenges facing investors amid the prospect of record-low future expected returns. He also received the CFA Institute's 2017 Leadership in Global Investment Award.
Antti earned M.Sc. degrees in economics and law from the University of Helsinki and a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Chicago
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Colleen Jaconetti is a Senior Investment Analyst in the Vanguard Investment Strategy Group. She has over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry. Her areas of expertise include portfolio construction and financial planning with a focus on retirement planning, spending and wealth management strategies.
Colleen M. Jaconetti authored the 2012 Vanguard research paper "Total-Return Investing: An Enduring Solution for Low Yields", alongside Francis M. Kinniry Jr., and Christopher B. Philips. She has also posted articles for the AAII Journal.
Colleen received her B.A. in Mathematics from Lehigh University. She received her M.B.A in Finance, Accounting from Lehigh University
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Spencer Jakab is the Editor of the "Heard on the Street" column for the Wall Street Journal and the author of two books. His new book is The Revolution That Wasn't: GameStop, Reddit and the Fleecing of Small Investors, which is the topic of our conversation. Previously he wrote "Ahead of the Tape" published in 2015. Prior to joining the WSJ, Spencer was an analyst and later a director of emerging markets equity research at Credit Suisse.
Spencer Jakab is the Editor of the "Heard on the Street" column for the Wall Street Journal and the author of two books. His new book is The Revolution That Wasn't: GameStop, Reddit and the Fleecing of Small Investors, which is the topic of our conversation. Previously he wrote "Ahead of the Tape" published in 2015. Prior to joining the WSJ, Spencer was an analyst and later a director of emerging markets equity research at Credit Suisse.
Spencer Jakab is the Editor of the "Heard on the Street" column for the Wall Street Journal and the author of two books. His new book is The Revolution That Wasn't: GameStop, Reddit and the Fleecing of Small Investors, which is the topic of our conversation. Previously he wrote "Ahead of the Tape" published in 2015. Prior to joining the WSJ, Spencer was an analyst and later a director of emerging markets equity research at Credit Suisse.
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Karsten “Big Ern” Jeske retired in 2018 after a long career in academia, government, and Corporate America. He previously worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and BNY Mellon Asset Management and taught economics at Emory University and UC Berkeley. Karsten’s work has been published in leading academic journals like the Journal of Political Economy and the Journal of Monetary Economics. He now lives in Washington State with his wife and daughter. On his blog Early Retirement Now, he writes on all topics related to personal finance. He is best known for his comprehensive series on safe withdrawal strategies.
Karsten has an undergraduate degree in Business from the Universität Bielefeld in Germany and a Master’s and Doctorate in economics from the University of Minnesota. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®) designation.
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Ben Johnson, CFA, works with Morningstar’s asset management clients to leverage Morningstar’s capabilities to advance our shared mission of empowering investor success. Prior to assuming his current role in 2022, he was the director of global ETF and passive strategies research within Morningstar’s manager research group. Earlier in his tenure in the manager research organization, he served as the director of ETF research for Europe and Asia. He also previously served as a senior equity analyst, covering the agriculture and chemicals industries. Before joining Morningstar in 2006, he worked as a financial advisor for Morgan Stanley.
Johnson holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation. In 2015, Fund Directions and Fund Action named Johnson among the 2015 Rising Stars of Mutual Funds.
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Michael Kitces, MSFS, MTax, CFP, a Financial Planning contributing writer, is head of planning strategy for Buckingham Wealth Partners, co-founder of the XY Planning Network and publisher of a continuing education blog for financial planners, Nerd’s Eye View.
Michael is also a popular speaker on financial planning and practice management topics, and can be seen presenting at 50-70 regional and national conferences for financial advisors every year.
Jackie is best known for her story of reaching Financial Independence and Retiring Early (F.I.R.E.) in her 40s, making less than six figures. She officially retired from corporate America in 2019 to follow her big dream of creating a financially literate society.
Shortly after writing her first book “Money Letters 2 my Daughter” in 2013, she was officially recognized with a Congressional Commendation from the U.S. House of Representatives for her work in the financial literacy space. In April 2024, she released her newest book, “F.I.R.E. for Dummies” (a.co/d/0gSuoN3).
Jackie has been featured in many major media outlets including the Rachael Ray Show, CNBC, Forbes and The New York Times. She currently co-hosts “Catching Up to FI”, a podcast dedicated to helping late starters on the journey to financial independence (catchinguptofi.com).
Jackie earned her master’s degree in financial planning and financial therapy from Kansas State University and holds the Certified Financial Planner and Accredited Financial Counselor credentials.
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Taylor Larimore, CCL, was dubbed by MONEY magazine as "The Dean of the Vanguard Diehards." Jack Bogle calls Taylor "King of the Bogleheads." Taylor is remarkably well informed after having spent most of his 98 years in the real world of finance and investments.
A graduate of the University of Miami School of Business Administration, Taylor served as a World War II paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division during the Battle of the Bulge, earning 5 combat decorations. An avid sailing enthusiast, Taylor was named the American Sailing Association's "Instructor of the Year."
Throughout his career, Taylor worked as a life insurance underwriter, revenue officer for the Internal Revenue Service, Chief of the Financial Division for the Small Business Administration in South Florida, and Director of the Dade County Housing Finance Authority.
In 1986 Taylor became inspired when reading about the life and teachings of Jack Bogle. Combining his financial experience with Mr. Bogle's research and advice, Taylor and his wife of 62 years, Pat (deceased), have seen their portfolio improve dramatically. Taylor now spends his time sailing and helping others discover "the Boglehead way" on the Boglehead forums.
He calls his beautiful condo overlooking Biscayne Bay "The House That Jack Built" since he credits Jack Bogle and Vanguard for the investing success that allowed him to purchase it.
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John C. Bogle Center "Lifetime Achievement Award"
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
Craig Lazzara is a Managing Director in the Core Product Management group at S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI). His responsibilities focus on providing thought leadership and educational outreach for S&P DJI’s core, alternative beta, and style indices globally. Prior to assuming his current role, Craig founded the Index Investment Strategy team, which provides research and commentary across the S&P DJI product set, with particular emphasis on the active vs. passive debate, factor indices, and index dynamics. He previously served as product manager for S&P DJI’s U.S. equity and real estate indices. These include the S&P 500® and the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, two of the most widely tracked benchmarks in the world.
Prior to joining S&P Indices in 2009, Craig was a managing director of Abacus Analytics, a quantitative consulting firm serving the brokerage and investment management communities. He previously directed marketing and client service for ETF Advisors and Salomon Smith Barney’s Global Equity Index Group, as well as for the Equity Portfolio Analysis group at Salomon Brothers. Earlier, Craig served as chief investment officer of Centurion Capital Management and Vantage Global Advisors, as a managing director of TSA Capital Management, and as a vice president and portfolio manager for Mellon Bank and T. Rowe Price Associates.
A Chartered Financial Analyst, Craig is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School.
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Jeff Levine is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Financial Planner, financial adviser, and a complete tax nerd. He is the lead financial planning guru for Kitces.com, home of the popular Nerd's Eye View blog, and the founder of Fully Vested Advice, Inc., which provides financial education and consulting services to industry professionals. He is also the Director of Advanced Planning at Buckingham Strategic Wealth.
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Ron Lieber, an award-winning New York Times "Your Money" columnist and the author of a new book, The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Roadmap for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make. Ron is also the author of The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money and co-author of Taking Time Off: Inspiring Stories of Students Who Enjoyed Successful Breaks from College and How You Can Plan Your Own.
Before joining The Times in 2008, Ron wrote the "Green Thumb" personal finance column for The Wall Street Journal and was part of the startup team at that paper's Personal Journal section.
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Mel Lindauer, CFS, WMS, was dubbed "The Prince of the Bogleheads" by Jack Bogle. He's one of Boglehead forum founders along with Taylor Larimore, and has contributed thousands of posts, helping investors learn the Boglehead way to invest. In 2010, Mel helped create the John C. Bogle Center for Financial Literacy, an IRS-approved 501(c)(3) charitable organization. He served as the voluntary president of the Center from 2012 through 2019. Mel was elected to the Daytona Beach Shores city council and was sworn in on November 15, 2016. He was re-elected in 2018 and in 2020 was elected Vice Mayor. In 2022, he was re-elected to serve another four-year term.
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Mel Lindauer served as a past president of the Bogle Center
Bogleheads Chapters Series with Allan Roth and Mel Lindauer - June 12, 2021
Bogleheads on Investing Episode 11 with Mel Lindauer - July 2, 2019
Roger Lowenstein reported for The Wall Street Journal for more than a decade and is also an award-winning book author. His work has appeared in Bloomberg, The New York Review of Books, Fortune, The New York Times Magazine, and other publications.
His best-selling books include Buffett, When Genius Failed, Origins of the Crash, While America Aged, and The End of Wall Street.
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Alec Lucas is the director of fixed income strategies within manager research for Morningstar Research Services LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Morningstar, Inc. Prior to assuming his current role in June 2022, he worked for nine years on the equity strategies team, covering offerings from Vanguard and American Funds, among others. He is also the lead analyst on Vanguard.
Before joining Morningstar in 2013, Lucas worked as a minister as well as a professor for Loyola University Chicago, among other institutions. From 2010 to 2011, he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Heidelberg.
Lucas holds bachelors’ degrees in philosophy and classics from the University of Missouri-Columbia, where he graduated summa cum laude and with departmental honors, and a Master of Divinity, summa cum laude, from Trinity International University. He also holds a doctorate in theology, with distinction, from Loyola University Chicago and has published several articles and one book within that field.
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Jon Luskin is a fee-only, advice-only Certified Financial Planner™ (CFP®) professional and fiduciary in sunny San Diego, California. Jon specializes in providing hourly advice to do-it-yourself investors.
Jon is a long-time advocate of simple, low-cost investing. His master’s thesis showed how university endowments can generate more wealth (and take on less risk) by using passive index funds. Jon’s other research has been published in the peer-reviewed Financial Planning Association’s Journal of Financial Planning. Jon has had the fortune of presenting his research to advisors across the country.
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