In a wide-ranging recent interview with Fox Business News, Vanguard founder John Bogle says it’s reasonable to expect stocks to return about 7% to 8% per year in this decade, and stresses that investors should avoid the temptation to speculate in the stock market. “Reasonable expectations are that we will have returns of 7-8% in […]
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Bogle: Beware Fuzzy Numbers
April 7, 2011 
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Vanguard found John Bogle says investors should view stock market numbers with skepticism, particularly in terms of historical market returns being used as a guide for the future. “Even if we accept the belief that past market returns are an accurate representation of reality, the idea that future returns will centre around the past is […]
Read moreBogle: Focus on U.S. Equities, Not International Stocks
November 25, 2010 0 Comments
Vanguard founder Jack Bogle says stocks could double in the next decade, far outpacing bonds, but also says the global economy is in worse shape than many realize. “I expect stocks will have a dividend yield of about 2 percent, with stock price appreciation of maybe 6 percent from earnings growth,” Bogle recently told CNBC […]
Read moreBogle on Why He Doesn’t Invest Internationally
October 22, 2010 1 Comment
While many investors are focusing on emerging market stocks, which have done quite well in the past decade, Vanguard found John Bogle is skeptical of them. Bogle tells Morningstar that investors keying on such stocks may be suffering from “rowboat syndrome” — much like someone rowing a boat, they have their eyes on where they […]
Read moreBogle: Stocks Should Beat Bonds in Next Decade
June 9, 2010 0 Comments
Vanguard founder Jack Bogle tells Morningstar that he thinks stocks will outperform bonds over the next decade — but that investors need to be able to deal with volatility if they want to profit from stocks over that period. Bogle says that while no one knows for sure what the markets will do in the […]
Read moreBogle vs. Gross on Market’s Future
April 9, 2010 0 Comments
Investment legends Bill Gross and Jack Bogle offered differing opinions on what the future holds for the economy and the stock market in this recent CNBC interview. Gross reiterated his belief in a “new normal” in which both stock and bond investors need to rachet down their expectations. Bogle, meanwhile, says it’s reasonable to expect […]
Read moreBogle Sees Stocks Doubling Bonds in Next Decade
April 2, 2010 0 Comments
A decade ago, Vanguard founder and investment legend John Bogle said bonds were in for a nice run and stocks were headed for tough times — a prediction that turned out to be quite true. Now, he sees better times ahead for stocks. Bogle thinks stocks should do “about twice as well as bonds over […]
Read moreBogle: Keep It Simple
February 23, 2010 0 Comments
In an interview with Texas’ The Statesman, Vanguard’s John Bogle says the key to successful investing is keeping things simple, and not allowing short-term performance to impact your decisions. “[The biggest problem in investing] is that people are focused on short-term performance,” Bogle tells Scott Burns. He says that there will always be some funds […]
Read moreBogle on The Next Decade
December 31, 2009 0 Comments
In an interview with Nightly Business Report, Vanguard founder John Bogle says he expects stocks to return an average of about 8% per year for the next decade, and adds that U.S. stocks may be a bit undervalued, with international markets a bit overdone. Bogle tells Susie Gharib that he doesn’t do one-year market forecasts […]
Read moreCohen, Doll & Bogle Weigh In
December 16, 2009 0 Comments
In an interview with CNBC, three top equity strategists — Abby Joseph Cohen, Bob Doll, and John Bogle — offered their takes on where the market and economy are headed in 2010. Here’s a brief summary of each of their outlooks. Cohen (President, Goldman Sachs’ Global Markets Institute): Cohen says she expects GDP growth of […]
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