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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the United States’ health expenditures as a percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) were an astonishing 17.4% in 2013. That’s $2.9 trillion dollars or $9,255 per person! With more than one in six dollars of the…

Topics: Financial Planning

Budgeting – Blending, Not Balancing Nothing makes someone’s eyes glaze over faster than talking about “budgeting”. What about the “b-word” makes us squirm? We all understand the math involved, and surely the difficulty isn’t an inability to identify the components of spending. We often feel…

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As Dimensional Fund Advisors embarks on its 25th year of working with financial advisors, they shared with us a series of Dimensional Stories, two minute videos featuring Nobel Laureate Eugene Fama and/or David Booth speaking on the themes and insights that influence Dimensional’s way of…

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Nothing makes someone’s eyes glaze over faster than talking about “budgeting”. What about the “b-word” makes us squirm? We all understand the math involved, and surely the difficulty isn’t an inability to identify the components of spending. Perhaps, then, it's all about perspective. Budgeting can...
Topics: Financial Planning

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. …

Topics: Dimensional, Economy and Investing