Despite this being the biggest increase in U.S. consumer prices in a year, the underlying pace of inflation eased up in August. So Many Low-Cost Choices VettaFi’s vice chairman Tom Lydon called Vanguard “the Hoover of the ETF industry” for how it’s vacuumed up investor dollars. They’re low-cost and always very, very dependable.” Vanguard’s CEO Tim Buckley said at Exchange 2023 that the firm’s goal is “to make sure we’re producing the top performing funds and ETFs out there.” “We’ll wrap it with low-cost, scalable advice and deliver them on a world-class, digitally enabled platform,” he added.