{"id":464,"date":"2014-02-19T08:05:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T08:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=464"},"modified":"2014-02-19T08:05:20","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T08:05:20","slug":"investment-quote-vanguard-economies-of-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=464","title":{"rendered":"Investment Quote: Vanguard &#038; Economies of Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><del><\/del>In 1975 John C Bogle founded the investment company Vanguard. Using simple Index Tracking Funds, to create economies of scale, today, Vanguard has $2 Trillion = $2000 Billion = \u00a31194 Billion = <strong>\u00a31.194 Trillion<\/strong> under management via its 24 Funds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguard.com\/\">www.vanguard.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A great quote from John Bogle &#8220;<em><strong>Don\u2019t look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the whole\u00a0haystack<\/strong><\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What he is effectively saying is that the stock market as a whole generally gives good long-term returns, so save yourself the stress of looking for specific companies, and just buy an index fund where you will get all the companies.<\/p>\n<p>A great place for Index Trackers is <strong>Legal &amp; General<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.legalandgeneral.com\/investments\/products-and-funds\/index-tracker\/\">http:\/\/www.legalandgeneral.com\/investments\/products-and-funds\/index-tracker\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A world choice, low charges, and resulting in buying all the needles in the haystacks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1975 John C Bogle founded the investment company Vanguard. Using simple Index Tracking Funds, to create economies of scale, today, Vanguard has $2 Trillion = $2000 Billion = \u00a31194 Billion = \u00a31.194 Trillion under management via its 24 Funds. &nbsp; www.vanguard.com &nbsp; A great quote from John Bogle &#8220;Don\u2019t look for the needle in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}