Evidence receipt / prediction
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: prediction
18 May 2026 Acquired Vanguard
“The answer I suspect Vanguard leadership would give you is you do actually need to grow to stay competitive because you need to keep investing in the platform and the current cash flows off our small management fees are not enough to make all the investments that we wanna make.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- prediction
- Recorded
- 18 May 2026
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Vanguard
Transcript context
…With a structure like Vanguard, the only reason to do so is if you believe the mission of the company, either as set up by Jack or as it should be today, is to bring the service to as many people as possible. But that's just a value judgment. There's no incentive there. Right. The answer I suspect Vanguard leadership would give you is you do actually need to grow to stay competitive because you need to keep investing in the platform and the current cash flows off our small management fees are not enough to make all the investments that we wanna make. Yeah.…
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