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by Jim Parker Vice President Dimensional Fund Advisors “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.” —Niels Bohr, Nobel laureate in Physics A hallowed media tradition in this season is to provide a neat summation of the 12 months just gone and to ask experts to share their “outlooks” for investment markets inRead more

It has been fascinating to observe the volatility in equity markets through the later part of 2018 and into the beginning of this year.  At the close of 2018 calendar year, the S&P500 Index in the United States delivered the worst December since 1931 and the worst month since February 2009. For those who can’tRead more

by Jim Parker Vice President Dimensional Fund Advisors In Leo Tolstoy’s great novel ‘War and Peace’, a Russian general charged with defeating Napoleon and expelling the French from Russian soil argued against rushing into battle, saying the strongest of all warriors were “time and patience”. It’s an observation worth recalling as the media runs thousandsRead more

As a subscriber to Harvard Business Review (HBR), I often come across articles or interviews about the field of finance or financial management and its relationship to human experience. Mihir Desai, professor at Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, is a regular contributor to hbr.org and was recently interviewed for the HBR IdeaCast.  In thisRead more

University of Chicago Booth Professor and Nobel prize winning economist Eugene Fama talks about the evolution of modern finance.Read more

Professor Fama is among the most prolific and cited thinkers in finance today. In this interview, he discusses the origins of his interest in economics, the origins of Dimensional, his thirty year career at The University of Chicago, and what has changed (and remained the same) in the economic world during that time.Read more