DFA Video Interviews
These are interviews with some of the key financial economists who have developed the theories behind the investment philosophy employed by Dimensional Fund Advisors, which provides most of the mutual funds for the SEVG Profit Sharing Plan. Dimensional is now the eighth largest mutual fund company in America. The good news is that you don’t have to do any reading; just sit back and enjoy the videos.
In a continuing effort to educate and inform plan participants, PIA is pleased to offer plan participants videos of two of the world’s most renowned financial economists. The first is with Eugene F. Fama, 2013 Nobel Laureate in Economics and the Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the Booth Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago. In this this interview, Professor Fama discusses the evolution of Dimensional’s trading system and the role of tax management, patient trading, momentum and the ideas of behavioral finance.
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The other videos are with Kenneth R. French who is the Director of Investment Strategy for Dimensional and the Heidt Professor of Finance at the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College. Professor French has conducted important research over the last two decades with 2013 Nobel Laureate Eugene Fama. In these videos, Professor French discusses buy-and-hold investing, active vs. passive investment management strategies and the role of commodities in a portfolio
Buy and Hold vs. Timing the Market
Stock Picking vs. Index Investing
Commodities and Your Portfolio
Professor French also discusses the origins of Dimensional and what has changed (and remains the same) in the world of financial economics over the last 30 years of his career.
http://www.dfaus.com/2009/12/dimensional-thinkers-kenneth-r-french.html