Article by Dimensional Fund Advisors: Northern Exposure – Short-Sighted
March 2013 Short-Sighted By Brad Steiman Director, Head of Canadian Financial Advisor Services, and Vice President Dimensional Fund Advisors Canada ULC Brad Steiman exposes the faulty logic in...
View ArticleArticle by Dimensional Fund Advisors: Down To The Wire – You Have To Be In Gold
May 2013 You Have to Be in Gold By Weston Wellington Vice President Dimensional Fund Advisors All of us could benefit by examining our inclination to invest with our hearts rather than our heads—...
View ArticleArticle by Dimensional Fund Advisors: Outside The Flags – The Art of Letting Go
May 2013 The Art of Letting Go By Jim Parker Vice President DFA Australia Limited In many areas of life, intense activity and constant monitoring of results represent the path to success. In...
View ArticleArticle by Dimensional Fund Advisors: Outside The Flags – Second Guessing
July 2013 Second Guessing By Jim Parker Vice President DFA Australia Limited “Markets recently have had a rocky time as investors in aggregate reassess prospects for monetary policy stimulus in the US....
View ArticleArticle by Dimensional Fund Advisors: Outside The Flags – The Broccoli and...
August 2013 The Broccoli and Pizza Portfolio By Jim Parker Vice President DFA Australia Limited “For some of us, it’s hard to give up on the idea that investing should be exciting. Picking stocks can...
View ArticleArticle by Dimensional Fund Advisors: Outside The Flags – Riding the Emerging...
October 2013 Riding the Emerging Markets Tiger By Jim Parker Vice President DFA Australia Limited “Many investors fell for emerging markets in recent years when they delivered sizeable returns. More...
View ArticleArticle by Dimensional Fund Advisors: Outside The Flags – Dancing on the Ceiling
October 2013 Dancing on the Ceiling By Jim Parker Vice President DFA Australia Limited “Investors have grown weary with the periodic debt showdowns in Washington, each one miraculously resolved at the...
View ArticlePassive Investing Turns 40-ish
With no birth certificate on file, the precise day remains fuzzy. But if you’re looking for a reason to party (and who isn’t?) let’s call September 4, 1974, the day that passive investing was born....
View ArticleArticle by Dimensional Fund Advisors: Outside The Flags – Simplicity and...
November 2013 Dancing on the Ceiling By Jim Parker Vice President DFA Australia Limited “The Chinese philosopher Confucius once said that life is very simple, but we insist on making it complicated....
View ArticleDimensional Fund Advisors: Questioning Authority Since 1981
Remember those “Question Authority” buttons from the late ’70s and early ’80s? Admit it: You may even have one stashed in a drawer somewhere. The era also sprouted a new kind of authority-questioning...
View ArticleArticle by Dimensional Fund Advisors: Outside The Flags – Rate Expectations
December 2013 Rate Expectations By Jim Parker Vice President DFA Australia Limited “Interest rates around the world are at historic lows. They can only go in one direction from here, right? And aren’t...
View ArticleArticle by Dimensional Fund Advisors: Outside The Flags – Many Happy Returns
December 2013 Many Happy Returns By Jim Parker Vice President DFA Australia Limited “It’s that time of the year when the talking heads of television and the prognosticators of print issue their sage...
View ArticleArticle by Dimensional Fund Advisors: Down To The Wire – No Selloff in 2013
January 2014 Surprise! No Selloff in 2013 By Weston Wellington Vice President Dimensional Fund Advisors The unusually strong performance of US stocks in 2013 was a welcome surprise for investors who...
View ArticleArticle by Dimensional Fund Advisors: Quarterly Market Review of Global...
This report features world capital market performance and a timeline of events for the 4th quarter. It begins with a global overview, then features the returns of stock and bond asset classes in the US...
View ArticleArticle by Dimensional Fund Advisors: Outside The Flags – The Golden Ticket Trap
January 2014 The Golden Ticket Trap By Jim Parker Vice President DFA Australia Limited “In a popular children’s story, the young hero pins all his hopes on finding one of a handful of “golden tickets”...
View ArticleGolden Opportunities for Investing?
As Valentine’s Day nears, it seems like as good a time as any to cover the frequently asked question about whether gold has an appropriate place in your investment portfolio. We’ve got nothing against...
View ArticleArticle by Dimensional Fund Advisors: Outside The Flags – Future Testing
February 2014 Future Testing By Jim Parker Vice President DFA Australia Limited “Much financial news purports to be about the future but is really just an account of the past. As a result, many...
View ArticleArticle by Dimensional Fund Advisors: Outside The Flags – The Devil Wears Nada
March 2014 The Devil Wears Nada By Jim Parker Vice President DFA Australia Limited “The global fashion industry is fickle by nature, pushing and then pulling trends to keep hapless consumers forever...
View ArticleArticle by Dimensional Fund Advisors: Outside The Flags – Not Rocket Science
March 2014 Not Rocket Science By Jim Parker Vice President DFA Australia Limited “When the media raises the subject of beating the market through astute stock picking, the name Warren Buffett is...
View ArticleArticle by Dimensional Fund Advisors: Outside The Flags – Seven Ways to Fool...
April 2014 Seven Ways to Fool Yourself By Jim Parker Vice President DFA Australia Limited “The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once said that nothing is as difficult for people as not deceiving...
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