Amid the trivial commotion that comes with the holidays – for example determining the best time to travel to avoid the inevitable traffic or having a back up plan for the gravy in case Uncle Mark pours the turkey drippings down the drain again –…
As we’ve shared before, one of Yeske Buie’s defined core values is our commitment to sharing our time, our intellect, and our resources. Accordingly, the team volunteers on a quarterly basis, at minimum, as part of our Give Big initiative to make a difference in…
Dimensional Stories: Empirical Work DFA founder David Booth likes to say, “it’s about ideas,” and we certainly don’t know of another fund company that has been more about ideas than Dimensional Fund Advisors. As Dimensional embarks on it’s 25th year of working with financial advisors…
People all across the nation will be participating in the 2013 National Day of Service tomorrow, Jan. 19th, in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King once said, “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: ‘What are you doing for others?’” Each year,…
In this edition of the Digest, we will be discussing the recent shift in our investment strategy toward a truly global portfolio (we are revisiting this post from a few weeks back as the changes were implemented in the last few days) and celebrating Elissa…
Today is October 19, the 25th anniversary of Black Monday, the day in 1987 when the Dow fell by more than 22%, still the largest one-day percentage drop in the history of the index. The chart below, showing the level of the Dow throughout 1987, vividly illustrates…
Kathleen Pender The California Public Employees Retirement System yanked $1.2 billion in assets from Putnam Investments this week, but it is letting AllianceBernstein — another firm implicated in the mutual fund scandal — continue to manage $1.2 billion in pension money for state workers and…