Jack Bogle Changed Your Life Even If You Don’t Know Who He Was

  • Vanguard chief’s idea of low-cost index fund flopped at first
  • Bogle, who died Wednesday, exposed drawbacks of stock-picking
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Jack Bogle knew how to make a nuisance of himself.

“What he meant to most people in the investment business was that he was a royal pain in the bottom,” said Jeremy Grantham, co-founder of Boston-based Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo, or GMO.