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Transcript: Tim Buckley, Vanguard’s CEO

Barry Ritholtz

We have lowered the cost of investing, and we have improved the quality of those funds. And we had prioritized all our strategic plans, we had to figure out how to get them done while people were remote. And you know, just simple things like, hey, the value of tax loss harvesting, how do you make that apparent to people?

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Data Update 7 for 2023: Dividends, Buybacks and Cash Flows

Musings on Markets

The dividend principle, which is the focus of this post is built on a very simple principle, which is that if a company is unable to find investments that make returns that meet its hurdle rate thresholds, it should return cash back to the owners in that business.

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Data Update 1 for 2024: The data speaks, but what does it say?

Musings on Markets

In pursuit of an answer to that question, I used company-specific data from Value Line, one of the earliest entrants into the investment data business, to compute an industry average. After all, I had no plans on becoming a data service, and making them available to others cost me absolutely nothing. Return on (invested) capital 2.