High Signal Podcasts Evidence ledger
Method
Browse
← Back to evidence

Evidence receipt / belief

Published · transcript-backed

Ben Gilbert: belief

18 May 2026 Acquired Vanguard

“I think like if you're Vanguard, you're delighted to get the business, to have people buying Vanguard funds on Fidelity.”

— Ben Gilbert

Source trail

Everything needed to verify it.

Speaker
Ben Gilbert
Attribution
Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
18 May 2026
Publisher
Acquired
Episode
Vanguard

Transcript context

…-and this situation where they've found themselves that because of ETFs, their competitors, or quote unquote competitors, can access their funds easily and in sort of an open garden on their own platforms where they will then profit from the customer relationships with those fundholders. Yeah, in other ways. See, I don't view that as a problem. I think like if you're Vanguard, you're delighted to get the business, to have people buying Vanguard funds on Fidelity. But there is a vulnerability of you actually don't have a relationship with those customers, but, and they have a relationship with Fidelity. Yeah. And they can easily trade in and out of your funds whenever they want. And their advisors on those other platforms might one day advise them to.…

Stored transcript either side of the excerpt. The highlighted words are the published quote; the surrounding text is unedited source, never generated.

Search evidence