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Re:Vanguard Is Growing Faster Than Everybody Else Combined by subroutine on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @05:15AM (#14146476)
Pardon my ignorance, but how would NYT directly benefit from a boost in Vanguard popularity? Say this article somehow elicits a bevy of people/companies to invest in Vanguard, raising their mutual fund from $4.2 to a $4.5 trillion. Given that NYT stake in this fund remains constant, it's not clear to me how this helps NYT employees - unless $4.5 trillion is the tipping-point for market manipulation (but isn't this fund simply tracking major indexes?). Or would the biggest benefit come in the form of even lower fund fees (<0.1%)?
Re:Vanguard Is Growing Faster Than Everybody Else Combined by psyc on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @05:31AM (#14146538)
It wouldn't. It's utterly insignificant that Vanguard hosts their 401Ks. That's like saying, "Full Disclosure: Many NYT employees have accounts at BOA!"
Re:Vanguard Is Growing Faster Than Everybody Else Combined by jessriedel on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @03:06PM (#14150748)
Vanguard gives discounts to large institutions. If a NY Times story helps Vanguard, Vanguard could cut their rate a bit.

I don't think this is likely, but I think it's clearly possible, and noting this potential conflict of interest seems prudent. This is what the disclosure is for.

Re:Vanguard Is Growing Faster Than Everybody Else Combined by cJ0th on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @05:30AM (#14146534)
> Pardon my ignorance, but how would NYT directly benefit from a boost in Vanguard popularity?

I never said they would. I could imagine they got paid for this article but if I said so I would go out on a limb as I don't know whether that's the case.

All I am really saying is this:

> What I miss is a critical examination of the situation.

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I think this is a more balanced article on Vanguard: http://fortune.com/vanguard-mutual-funds-investment/

(It's from December 2016, though)