Bogleheads® Conference 2025 Closing Thoughts; 2026 Conference Location Announcement

[applause] >> So, I'll welcome Rick Ferri to the stage and we will have the big reveal in a minute. Um but first I wanted to just encourage everyone again to fill out the survey. Um we have the QR code on all the tables, but everyone should be receiving it by email as well. So, do give us your feedback on what you liked, what you think could be better, your ideas for future years. We are all ears. Um we have a lot of thanks and I hope to get them through them pretty quickly. Um but I wanted to start with our volunteers. You've been seeing them uh registration. >> [applause] >> This conference is powered by volunteers and we could not do it without you. We are so appreciative. Um I wanted to call out uh Jack Dausman who has been the photographer ro- rov- roving around. He has done photography at many of our events um over the past few years. We're very, very grateful. He does a beautiful job. So, Jack, thank you for doing that for us. >> [applause] >> I also have noted on a couple of occasions all of our speakers are volunteers, every last one of them including people who could earn a good buck um charging for their speeches, people who could and do. Um so, we are so grateful to all of them for giving up parts of their weekends, fall weekends are really precious and also um sharing their expertise with us. And uh >> [applause] >> that helps us keep the conference costs down for all of you to allow more people to attend. Speaking of volunteers, I'd love to thank our board at the Bogle Center um which is an all-volunteer group as well. In fact, we ask our board uh each of our board members pay for their own registrations for this conference. So, we're paying our own way. We have always done it that way and and still do. So, I want to call out our board and I think most people are still here. Rich uh Rich Gera is our uh vice president. He's up in front. Um Treasurer Mike Piper who I called out earlier. I don't know if Mike is still in the room. Mike's in the back and many of you know Mike. Um Secretary Karen Damato, Gory Mukherjee. Uh Karen's there. Um John Luskin, Bill Bernstein. It's a good team. Ben Holland who was not able to join us this time. Uh Bala Mur- Murthy and Andrew Bogle. A fabulous crew. Um we're a true working group, I would say. In fact, we're all all a little bit exhausted over the past year um with the Clements Initiative coming on board for us, but we love working together and we love um supporting the mission here. >> [clears throat] [applause] >> I'd also like to thank a couple of friends of of Bogleheads, Alan Roth who is a wonderful contributor and sounding board to the Bogle Center. >> [applause] >> And Rick Ferri who continues >> [applause] >> continues to help us plan this conference and host the Bogleheads on Investing podcast along with uh John Luskin. Um they're both former board members for the Bogle Center. Also want to thank Jim and Katie Dalley. I see Jim there. Um Jim >> [applause] >> And I think Katie's here somewhere. Uh she's over there. Okay, so Jim um has been a great partner to us at at the Bogle Center and has been heading up our university uh content for the past several years. It's been a great success and he's just a wonderful um contributor to this group. We're really happy to see a lot of doctors who have been um part of Jim's White Coat Investor group who have uh come to join the Bogleheads as well and there's a lot of alignment in in how we're all thinking about things. Jim's wife Katie is one of those people we could not do this conference without. Katie is always running around like she's a paid employee of this conference and I'm here to say she is not a paid employee, but she does so much work for us and really helps us get ourselves organized. We are not professional conference organizers, but I think the conference comes together pretty well. Thanks. >> [applause] >> Thanks in large part to Katie's efforts. Also want to thank our video team who we've worked with for the past 4 years now. Um Andrew Morgan has been with us the whole time. He's there. >> [applause] >> And and Chris Faust this year. We hire a professional video crew because we want to commit all these sessions to to video. They'll be on YouTube as soon as we get through the editing process. Um but the idea is that this conference is not cheap. We know not everyone can afford to attend and may not physically be able to attend, but we want to make the education available for all and and to have it be free. So, we're very grateful for them. They do a terrific job. Um >> [clears throat] >> last but not least, I'd like to thank Connor. Um and Connor, I won't try to pronounce your last name, but >> [applause] >> I mentioned that we are not professional conference organizers on our board. Connor is a professional conference organizer. So, to the extent that uh you were able to register or book a room through the block or that the trains ran on time in terms of sessions and slides and meals, it's all thanks to Connor in large part. He is such a incredible contributor to this event. Um there's no way we could do this without him. And uh this year he brought his son Areets who who you've seen um running around helping there he is. Um and uh Jen Shafer as well who has been a fabulous uh contributor. So, thanks to all of you, this team. We couldn't do it without you. >> [applause] [applause] >> And this amazing person to my left who I don't know how she does it. >> [applause] >> President of the Bogle Center, author, Clements Initiative, this conference. I mean, I I don't know how you sleep, honestly. >> [laughter] >> Thank you so much, Christine. Thanks. >> [applause] >> So, now I think we are on to the big reveal. Rick, I'll let you announce it. Do we have a slide that we Okay. So, I just want to make a couple announcements about kind of how we pick places to go to for next year. And uh we try to move the conference around as you know. It was Chicago, it was outside of Washington, D.C., uh Minneapolis, now down here. So, we try to move it around a little bit so people who normally can't travel that far or get into their area. Uh we we need to do it in a fairly, you know, medium to large-size metro area that has a good airport, that has good hotels and so forth. Uh try to do it in October. Uh we don't have the exact date for the next year's conference yet, but uh you know, about the same time. Uh October, maybe early November depending on the availability of the hotel and so forth and we're working on all those things right now, but we do have the city you which you will be flying into to go to the conference, not necessarily right in this particular city, but you will be flying into it and then getting to maybe where the conference is within say a 30-minute ride. And that is Las Vegas. >> [applause] >> The place no one admitted to going. All right. See you there next year. Thank you. >> [applause] >> If you enjoyed this video, we have dozens more on personal finance and investing available on this channel. Hit that subscribe button to get notified when we release new content including our monthly podcast Bogleheads on Investing and more conference sessions like this one. To watch more right now, click the video card on your screen.