We are pleased to announce that Eugene Fama has been awarded the Nobel Prize. Professor Fama's groundbreaking work on asset pricing and markets inspired the founding of Dimensional, and his ongoing contributions have guided our investment approach for more than three decades.
Why have our investment horizons grown shorter ? What have the pros and cons been of this shift ? Watch this short video clip to better understand the importance of long term financing.
Victor Haghani uses the puzzle of the missing billionaires to help us explore how and why most investors fail to capture the returns offered by the market. He puts forward a simple but powerful solution for those who aren't satisfied with the status quo: it's called "Active Index Investing." This approach combines the best features of low-cost index funds with the appealing and successful aspects of active management, all for 1/10th the price that many investors currently pay.
Activist and fundraiser Dan Pallotta calls out the double standard that drives our broken relationship to charities. Too many nonprofits, he says, are rewarded for how little they spend -- not for what they get done. Instead of equating frugality with morality, he asks us to start rewarding charities for their big goals and big accomplishments (even if that comes with big expenses). In this bold talk, he says: Let's change the way we think about changing the world.
Dan Ariely, behavioral economist and author of " Predictably Irrational ", uses classic optical illusions and his own surprising (and sometimes shocking) research findings to show that we are not as rational as we think when we make decisions.