The Vanguard Group is an American investment management company based in Malvern, Pennsylvania, that manages approximately $3.6 trillion^[1]in assets. It is the largest provider of mutual funds and now the second-largest provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the world afterBlackRock, with about $451 billion in ETF assets under management, as of March 2015.^[3] It offers mutual funds and other financial products and services to retail and institutional investors in the United States and abroad. Founder and former chairman John C. Bogle is credited with the creation of the first index fund available to individual investors,^[4] the popularization of index funds generally, and driving costs down across the mutual fund industry.^[5]

Vanguard is owned by the funds themselves and, as a result, is owned by the investors in the funds.^[6]

The Vanguard Group, Inc.

Type	Corporation
Industry	Investment management
Founded	May 1, 1975
Founder	John C. Bogle
Headquarters	Malvern, Pennsylvania, United States
Key people	F. William McNabb III, chairman & CEO
Products	Mutual funds; exchange-traded funds; brokerage; asset management
AUM	$3.6 trillion (March 2016)[1]
Total assets	$1.675 trillion (2016)
Number of employees	More than 14,000 in the United States and abroad as of December 31, 2015[2]
Website	vanguard.com

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is a multinational banking and financial services holding company headquartered in New York City. It is thelargest bank in the United States, the world's sixth largest bank by total assets, with total assets of US$2.35 trillion, and the world's most valuable bank by market capitalization.^[5] It is a major provider offinancial services, and according to Forbes magazine is the world's sixth largest public company based upon a composite ranking.^[6] The hedge fund unit of JPMorgan Chase is the second largest hedge fund in the United States.^[7] The company was formed in 2000, when Chase Manhattan Corporation merged with J.P. Morgan & Co.^[8]

The J.P. Morgan brand, historically known as Morgan, is used by theinvestment banking, asset management, private banking, private wealth management, and treasury & securities services divisions. Fiduciaryactivity within private banking and private wealth management is done under the aegis of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.—the actual trustee. The Chase brand is used for credit card services in the United States and Canada, the bank's retail banking activities in the United States, and commercial banking. The corporate headquarters is located at 270 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The retail and commercial bank is headquartered in Chase Tower, Chicago Loop, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.^[8] JPMorgan Chase & Co. is considered to be a universal bank.

JPMorgan Chase is one of the Big Four banks of the United States, along with Bank of America, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo.^{[9][10][11][12][13][14]}According to Bloomberg, as of October 2011, JPMorgan Chase had surpassed Bank of America as the largest U.S. bank by assets.^[15]

Loretta Elizabeth Lynch (born May 21, 1959) is the 83rd and currentAttorney General of the United States, having previously served as United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. Her tenure as U.S. Attorney began in 2010, and she also held that position from 1999 to 2001. As U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Lynch oversaw federal prosecutions in Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and Long Island.

Lynch graduated from Harvard Law School in 1984. She then practiced law in New York and became a federal prosecutor in 1990, rising to become head of the Eastern District office. She later returned to private law practice, until she again became the top district prosecutor. From 2003 to 2005, she served on the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

On November 8, 2014, President Barack Obama nominated her to succeedEric Holder as Attorney General.^[1] On February 26, 2015, the Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate confirmed her appointment by a 12–8 vote, with all Democrats of the committee and three Republicans in favor. On April 23, 2015, Lynch was confirmed by the Senate by a 56–43 vote, making her the second African-American, the second woman, and the firstAfrican-American woman to be confirmed for the position. She was sworn in as Attorney General on April 27, 2015, by Vice President Joe Biden.

Lynch was born on May 21, 1959, in Greensboro, North Carolina. Her mother was a school librarian and her father a Baptist minister.^[2][3][4] As a child, she spent hours with her father, watching court proceedings in the courthouse of Durham, North Carolina. Her early interest in court proceedings was compounded by stories of her grandfather, a sharecropperand pastor, who in the 1930s helped people move to the north to escape prosecutions under the racist Jim Crow laws of the time.^[2][5] Lynch earned aBachelor of Arts in English and American literature from Harvard College in 1981 and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1984, where she was a member of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau.^[6][7] She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., a chartering member of the Xi Tau chapter of the sorority while at Harvard.^[8][9]

Lynch and her husband, Stephen Hargrove, married in 2007. In her personal life she uses her married name, Loretta Lynch Hargrove. Her husband has two children from a previous marriage.^[2][45]