In Episode 15 of the Rational Reminder Podcast we recapped our time at the Dimensional Fund Advisors advanced conference. We recapped the following:

 

• Eugene Fama
• The history of the University of Chicago and Dimensional
• Connecting economics with academia
• Behavioral finance is a branch of efficient markets (according to Fama)
• Crunching data for the first time
• Starting the first index fund – before Vanguard
• Volatility lessons
• Black swans
• Do you need a tstat of 3 in today’s world?

 

We referenced this paper https://www.cfapubs.org/doi/pdf/10.2469/faj.v74.n3.6

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