Jack Brennan

• Finance and the English Language

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  February 22, 2013

  Financial language, to paraphrase Orwell, “is designed to make lies sound truthful…and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

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  Vanguard’s Brennan: Embrace Innovation, Beware Proliferation in ETFs

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  February 11, 2013

  At the InsideETFs conference, Vanguard Chairman Emeritus Jack Brennan says now is “the best time ever” to be a financial advisor, and ETFs are one of the key reasons.

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  ETF Addicts to Get Fill at Year’s Biggest Event

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  February 6, 2013

  The world’s largest gathering of advisors, investors and service providers focused on exchange-traded products opens Sunday in sunny Florida where the temperatures should be about 80 degrees but where discussions of “hot” relate strictly to investments.

• Buckley on Risks, Bonds & More

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  July 26, 2012

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  New Hire Roundup: BofA's Krawcheck Elected as FINRA Board Member

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  August 4, 2011

  Sallie Krawcheck, president of Global Wealth & Investment Management for Bank of America, was elected as large-firm governor for FINRA, while Jack Brennan of Vanguard was elected as FINRA's lead governor.

• New CEOs at Vanguard, Pimco

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  October 1, 2008

  Bill McNabb has succeeded Jack Brennan as Vanguard's CEO, making him the third CEO in Vanguard's 33 years as an investment firm. Brennan remains chairman...

• Vanguard Explorer Reopens

  By Kara P. Stapleton  |  August 11, 2008

  The latest in a number of major mutual funds reopening to new investors, Vanguard announced August 7 that it has made its Vanguard Explorer Fund and Vanguard Health Care Fund available to new shareholder accounts, effective immediately.

• McNabb to Replace Brennan as Vanguard CEO in '08-'09

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  April 1, 2008

  Vanguard Group's board of directors has elected F. William McNabb III as president and director of Vanguard effective March 1. McNabb, 50, is set to...

• Vanguard Gets New President

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  February 22, 2008

  Vanguard's Board has elected William McNabb as its new president and as a director effective March 1, replacing John Brennan. McNabb, 50, will also succeed Brennan as CEO within a year. Brennan, 53, who has served as Vanguard's president since 1989 and CEO since 1996, will remain chairman and stay...

• In Brief

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  January 1, 2008

  Vanguard has announced that Emerson U. Fullwood was elected to its board of directors and to the board of trustees of each of Vanguard's mutual...