Founding Father of Vanguard Group to Speak at ACP 2014 Conference in Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA - July 21, 2014 - PRLog -- John C. Bogle, founder of The Vanguard Group and the first index mutual fund, will be leading a question-and-answer session Thursday, November 6 during the Alliance of Comprehensive Planners’ 2014 Conference in Philadelphia. Bogle is one of many financial planning heavyweights headlining the November event. ACP found Bert Whitehead, Michael Kitces of The Kitces Report and Vanguard’s Colleen Jaconetti are among this year’s featured presenters.  Registration for the ACP 2014 Conference is now open.  Visit acplanners.org for more information.

“We are thrilled to welcome John Bogle to our outstanding list of speakers,” said ACP Executive Director Kathleen McCasland. “Mr. Bogle’s expertise and breadth of knowledge was the ideal fit for this year’s conference.”

The ACP 2014 Conference, November 5 – 8, will touch on pressing contemporary themes in the financial planning industry, as well as offer attendees opportunities to earn continuing education credits.  Conference speakers were chosen as part of this year’s conference theme: Planning for the Future and Investing in Knowledge. In addition to Bogle’s Q-and-A, Bert Whitehead will present Adding Tax Alpha and ACP Cash Management System; Michael Kitces will share Cutting-Edge Tax Planning Developments & Opportunities and The Future of Financial Planning in the Digital Age; Colleen Jaconetti will deliver Putting a Value on Your Value: Vanguard Advisors Alpha.

The ACP 2014 Conference is open to the public. Please visit www.acplanners.org/conference2014 for more information. Contact JJ Knight for more information about Alliance of Comprehensive Planners and the ACP 2014 Conference agenda, or to schedule an interview with ACP’s Executive Director and Conference Task Force.

About ACP

Alliance of Comprehensive Planners (formerly the Alliance of Cambridge Advisors) is a community of fee-only financial planners trained in the ACP System™. ACP members manage clients’ whole financial picture, from estate planning to taxes. Our members pride themselves on being the best in the business, providing the highest quality service while also developing meaningful relationships with their clients. For more information, visit http://acplanners.org.

About John C. Bogle

John C. Bogle is the longest serving leader in the U.S. mutual fund industry. After graduating from Princeton University in 1951 with an A.B. degree in Economics, magna cum laude, he joined Wellington Management Company. In 1974, he founded The Vanguard Group, serving as chief executive and then senior chairman through 1999, and since then as President of its Bogle Financial Markets Research Center. In 1975, he founded the world’s first index mutual fund. With current fund assets under management totaling some $2.5 trillion, Vanguard is the largest mutual fund organization in the world. In 1999, FORTUNE magazine named Mr. Bogle one of the investment industry’s four “Giants of the 20th Century,” and in 2004, TIME magazine named Mr. Bogle one of the 100 “Most Influential People in the World.” A prolific writer and speaker, among the most recent of Mr. Bogle’s ten books are:  The Clash of the Cultures: Investment vs. Speculation (2012), Don’t Count On It! (2011), Enough. (2008), and The Little Book of Common Sense Investing (2007), The Man in the Arena, the story of “His Lifelong Battle to Serve Investors First” (2013), was sponsored by the Institute for the Fiduciary Standard.