Investing Roundup: What’s a Boglehead?

This week, rather than doing my normal blog roundup, I thought I’d point out my other favorite online resource for investing information: The Bogleheads forum.

What’s a Boglehead?

The term is a reference to John Bogle — the founder of Vanguard and creator of the first index fund. (He’s also a relentless investor advocate and a prolific author.) “Boglehead” is used to describe somebody who follows Bogle’s advice: Buying & holding a diversified portfolio of super-low-cost mutual funds.

That makes me a Boglehead, for instance. And probably most of you as well.

The Forum

The Bogleheads forum is a community with thousands of active users. On any given day you’ll see numerous discussions of nuts and bolts investing topics like:

• Asset allocation
• Selecting investments in a 401(k)
• Converting Vanguard Investor shares to (lower-cost) Admiral shares

It’s also a good place to go for input on less common questions, such as this one about Monte Carlo simulations that I asked earlier this week.

Go Check It Out

If you have any questions about investing, or want a second (and third, fourth, and fifth) opinion on your specific portfolio, I can’t recommend the Bogleheads highly enough.

Blog Carnivals

Finally, since I promised to link back, the following blogs were kind enough to include me in their carnivals this week:

• Best of Money Carnival, hosted by Money Crush
• Festival of Stocks, hosted by Fat Pitch Financials
• Wealth Builder Carnival, hosted by My Wealth Builder
• Tax Carnival, hosted by Don’t Mess with Taxes
• Stock Carnival Ecstasy hosted by Fast Swings
• Carnival of Wealth, hosted by Personal Dividends
• Carnival of Financial Planning, hosted by The Skilled Investor

Thanks for reading!