As we enter the fourth trading day of 2016, world stock markets seem to have a bad case of nerves. As you know, we don’t believe that what happens in the markets on a day-to-day or month-to-month basis carries any real information, dominated as it…
As we prepare this edition of the Digest, we’re hoping that you had a great end to 2015 and celebrate the start to 2016 with your close family and friends. The end of one year and the beginning of another is a great time to…
Over the past year, we have shared a variety of videos from strategic partner Dimensional Fund Advisors, as we feel they provide important insights into Dimensional’s way of thinking and highlight the similarities between Dimensional and Yeske Buie. To continue illustrating our connection, we share…
In a recent article in the Wall Street Journal Five Bedrock Principles for Investors, Morgan Housel reviewed five principles investors can use to maximize the long-term returns from their portfolios. Given the volatility of the markets over the past year, we thought a review of…
Stock markets around the world have gotten choppy again after a period of extended calm and some are asking what’s up and what’s next. The answer, as always, is that we don’t know what’s next in the short run but we do have a high degree of…
We wrote about the renewal of the Greek debt crisis a month ago, noting that it was “like deja vu all over again,” mirroring the Greek debt crisis we were writing about back in October of 2011 (Beware of Greeks Bearing Gilts), when the markets…
With Greece back in the headlines, bringing with it a fresh bout of market volatility, we thought it might be time to touch base and offer a little history and a quick forecast. We first wrote about the sad state of Greek finances back in…
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. And not just any ideas, but the best thinking coming out of academic research in the science of economics. …
As you may recall, at the end of 2013 we decided to reel in the average maturity of the bonds in our portfolios because we were concerned about the prospect of rising interest rates (Investment Update: Going Short (Really Short!)). When rates rise, all other…
What a difference a day makes, or, at least, a calendar quarter. As everyone knows by now, last year was a good year for U.S. stocks and a not so good year for foreign stocks (at least, for those of us who are dollar investors). The first…