Mel Lindauer
Investor education author and Bogleheads leader
Mel Lindauer is a former Forbes.com columnist and a leader of the Bogleheads investing community. His books include The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing.
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About Mel Lindauer
Mel Lindauer has moderated and helped lead the Bogleheads forum on bogleheads.org, as well as the Morningstar.com forum that came before it. Vanguard founder Jack Bogle gave him the nickname "The Prince of the Bogleheads". He also established The John C. Bogle Center for Financial Literacy and was its President for a decade. A Marine veteran, he began investing in the late 1960s. With Taylor Larimore, he helped organize the Bogleheads annual conferences for 20 years. In March 2012, Money Magazine recognized him in its "Everyday Heroes" list for his efforts to educate investors. Before retiring in 1997, he founded and ran a graphic arts company near Philadelphia for 30 years. He later earned credentials as a Certified Fund Specialist and a Wealth Management Specialist. He was elected to the Daytona Beach Shores City Council in 2016 and became Vice Mayor in 2020.