Dimensional Fund Advisors (abbreviated as DFA or Dimensional) is an investment firm headquartered in Austin, Texas with regional offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Santa Monica, Sydney, and Vancouver. The company was founded in 1981 by David G. Booth and Rex Sinquefield, both graduates of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. The company benchmarks the performance of its large-cap equity portfolio against the S&P; 500 Index, Cons...
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Dimensional Fund Advisors (abbreviated as DFA or Dimensional) is an investment firm headquartered in Austin, Texas with regional offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Santa Monica, Sydney, and Vancouver. The company was founded in 1981 by David G. Booth and Rex Sinquefield, both graduates of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. The company benchmarks the performance of its large-cap equity portfolio against the S&P; 500 Index, Consumer Price Index, MSCI EAFE Index and the Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index.
DFA's objective is to "deliver the performance of capital markets and increase returns through state-of-the-art portfolio design and trading." The company's board of directors includes Myron Scholes who won the Nobel Prize for economics. The late Merton Miller, another Nobel laureate, was also on the board of directors, as was Robert C. Merton before he became the company's Resident Scientist. Other directors include leading economists such as George Constantinides,...
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