The Clash of the Cultures: Investment vs. Speculation
Written by John C. Bogle and Arthur Levitt
Narrated by Al Kessel
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Provocative and refreshingly candid, this book discusses Mr. Bogle's views on the changing culture in the mutual fund industry, how speculation has invaded our national retirement system, the failure of our institutional money managers to effectively participate in corporate governance, and the need for a federal standard of fiduciary duty.
Mr. Bogle recounts the history of the index mutual fund, how he created it, and how exchange-traded index funds have altered its original concept of long-term investing. He also presents a first-hand history of Wellington Fund, a real-world case study on the success of investment and the failure of speculation. The book concludes with ten simple rules that will help investors meet their financial goals.
John C. Bogle
John C. Bogle is founder of The Vanguard Group, Inc. and president of the Bogle Financial Markets Research Center. He created Vanguard, one of the two largest mutual-fund organizations in the world, in 1974 and served as Chairman and CEO until 1996 and Senior Chairman until 2000. Designated by Fortune magazine as one of the investment industry’s four “Giants of the 20th Century,” in 2004 he was awarded the Woodrow Wilson Award from Princeton University, his alma mater, for distinguished achievement in the nation’s service. That same year Time magazine named Mr. Bogle one of the world’s 100 most powerful and influential people.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Another good book by John Bogle on investing and mutual funds. This book discusses the differences between investing and speculation and the impact on returns earned by most investors in mutual funds.Mr. Bogle decries the change from long-term investing to short-term speculation and the impact on returns by most investors. This change in investing horizon has led to many problems in the current economy. Speculation has led to changes in the way many companies are managed. Company management now manages the company for short-term stock prices rather than longer-term health of the company. This leads to cost cutting and not investing in long-term growth of the company. The compensation of company management is structured to award massive amounts of wealth based on the short-term results. They will get their money based on these short-term goals of stock price increases while the company and it's employees are harmed in the long-term.Mr. Bogle takes aim at the mutual fund industry for assisting in this short-term speculation. The mutual funds fail to vote their proxies in a prudent manner aimed at the long-term health of the company and executive compensation plans that would reward executives for long-term growth of the company vs. short-term stock price changes. The funds fail to challenge the executives on this because they are also busy marketing to the company to get contracts to manage money for the company or it's retirement plans.Mr. Bogle takes aim on the way most mutual funds are organized and how this harms the fiduciary responsibility of mutual fund management to the investors in the mutual funds they are managing. Most mutual funds are now part of publicly held financial conglomerates. Managers now have two tasks. One to manage the mutual fund for the investors and secondly to make a profit to reward the stock owners in the financial conglomerate. Mutual funds started out as privately held companies managed by investment committees aimed at long-term investing. In the 60's this started to change. Very few fund companies are now privately held and only one is owned by the investors in the mutual funds offered by the mutual fund company. This change in ownership has had dramatic impact on the management fees paid by the mutual fund investors and it is largely very negative. It has led to short-term investing horizons in the mutual funds themselves and very high turnover in the portfolios. This is aimed at showing good results to bring in more money to manage.Mr. Bogle includes a chapter on how to improve the current retirement system that I found very interesting. It is aimed at reducing management costs for the retirement vehicles. He argues that these changes would be good for the retirees and still allow fund managers to make a reasonable profit. He sees the defined benefit plan as going away and everyone moving to defined contribution plans, even in the public sector. His recommendation would make these defined contribution plans work for everyone, company management, investors, and retirees. The plan also includes fixing social security for the long-term. This would provide the guaranteed portion of retirement income everyone needs. He does not include any radical ideas in his fixes for social security. Increasing the limit on income that is taxed and increasing the retirement age. He is very concerned that our current political problems in Washington will not lead to any changes and cause massive problems in retirement for everyone.He finishes the book with an example of a mutual fund that he has been involved and the benefits of a long-term investing horizon. He faults himself for management decisions at one point the history of the mutual fund that led to problems with the returns and the way it was fixed.