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Read about Vanguard’s selection of the CRSP Indexes for 16 U.S. stock and balanced index funds.

Advisor One
Vanguard Switches Indexes on 22 Funds
AP
Vanguard Move Highlights LIttle Known Index Costs
Looking At Benchmark License Fees
Asian Investor
Price behind world's biggest benchmark switch: Vanguard
Barron’s
Citing Costs, Vanguard To Shift Benchmarks For 22 Funds
New Indexes Are Just As Transparent: Vanguard
Race To Cut Costs Could Mean More Opaque Investments
A New Vanguard for Gus Sauter
Bloomberg Businessweek
Vanguard FTSE Switch to Boost China as Korean Stocks Sold
Bogleheads.org
Shifts in VG Tracking Indexes Announced
Vanguard Changing Indexes
Business Standard
Vanguard shift will result in more FII inflows into India
Business Wire
Vanguard to Change Target Benchmarks for 22 Index Funds
CBS Money Watch
Vanguard switching to lower-cost fund benchmarks
MSCI shares skid on Vanguard fund benchmark switch
Chicago Tribune
Analysis: U.S. index providers brace for price war
Economist
Index fingered
ETF Daily News
Vanguard Index Swap All About Cost
ETF Guide
Vanguard Says Good Bye to MSCI, Fee Cuts for 22 Index Funds Ahead
ETF Strategy
Vanguard abandons MSCI on 22 ETFs in favour of FTSE and Chicago Booth’s CRSP
ETF Trends
ETF Fee Wars Spill Into Index-Licensing Business
MSCI Shares Tumble 28% After Vanguard Drops Indices
Vanguard Index Switch Sets Emerging Market ETF Showdown
Vanguard Changing Indices for Several ETFs
Financial Advisor Magazine
Vanguard Replaces Benchmarks on 22 Index Funds
Financial News
Vanguard drops MSCI amid fee war
Financial Post
Vanguard to Change Target Benchmarks for 4 ETFs
Financial Standard
Vanguard makes index switch
Financial Times
Vanguard drops MSCI indices for FTSE
Forbes
Fee Fighting the Vanguard Way
Vanguard Does the CRSP Shuffle

Please note: There is an incorrect link in this article referencing a quarterly report. The corrected link is below.

"CRSP used percentage of market cap while MSCI uses numbers of securities to decide their cuts between mega-, large-, mid- and small-cap stocks. The CRSP percentages need to be converted to actual numbers of securities to do an apples-to-apples comparison. Luckily, CRSP has done this in a CRSP quarterly report dated March 2, 2012."

Fundweb
Vanguard dumps MSCI for FTSE
Global Investor Magazine
MSCI loses US market share to FTSE
Globe and Mail
Vanguard aims to lower ETF fees by switching index providers
Ignites
Vanguard Swaps Indexes in Cost-Cutting Move
Independent Adviser
Vanguard Announces New Benchmarks and Pricing
Index Universe
Russell’s O’Keeffe: The Vanguard Deja Vu
Vanguard Deal A Splashy First For CRSP 
The Squeeze On Index Fees 
Investment News
Vanguard index shift signals leap in fee war
Investor Place
Vanguard Announces New Benchmarks and Pricing
Market Watch
Vanguard’s index fund change is all about the pennies
In Vanguard, Schwab fee war, investors win
Morningstar
Vanguard Index Swap All About Cost
Vanguard to Switch Benchmarks for 22 Index Funds
Mutual Fund Wire
Sauter Boils Down Vanguards Shift
Vanguard Pulls Half a Trillion of Indexing Mandates
Index-Licensing Fees Go Mainstream
Reuters Expects Vanguard and FTSE to Trigger an Index Price War
NASDAQ
Vanguard's Index Changes Could Hamper BDCs
Vanguard Says Good Bye to MSCI, Fee Cuts for 22 Index Funds Ahead
Pensions & Investments
Vanguard replaces MSCI-based benchmarks on 22 index funds
Philadelphia Business Journal
Vanguard expected to reduce index mutual fund fees
Plan Adviser
Vanguard Changes Benchmarks for 22 Index Funds
PRWEB
New Investable Indexes from The Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) selected by Vanguard for U.S. Stock Index Funds
Retirement Income Journal
22 Vanguard funds switch to FTSE and CRSP benchmarks
Reuters
Race to cut ETF costs may leave investors in the dark
Vanguard dumps MSCI indexes from 22 funds to cut costs
Analysis: Investors fret over MSCI outlook as ETF price war bites
Wall Street Journal
Vanguard Drops MSCI Benchmarks for 22 Index Funds
MSCI CEO Plays Down Pricing Concerns After Vanguard Announcement
Washington Post
List of Vanguard index mutual funds switching to lower-cost market benchmarks
Wealth Manager
ETF fee war intensifies as Vanguard swaps indices to cut costs