"For those investors who haven't heard of DFA, think of Vanguard with a few potential Nobel laureates hanging around the soda machine."
- Dagen McDowell, Leader of the Pack: The DFA Funds, The Street.com
Dalbar 2000 Financial Professional Program
Opinions of Financial Professionals
Company
  

Rating (Max=4.0)

Dimensional Fund Advisors

  

3.81

Janus

  

3.76

PIMCO

  

3.71

American Skandia

 

3.70

INVESCO

  

3.67

Oppenheimer Funds

 

3.66

Vanguard

  

3.66

American Funds

  

3.65

AIM

  

3.63

Mass Financial Services

  

3.62

Sunamerica

 

3.57

BenchMark

  

3.51

Schwab

  

3.50
2002 Survey, and 1997 Survey
Dalbar Research surveyed 1,500 investment advisors and they rated DFA, Dimensional Fund Advisors as the best overall mutual fund company. However these mutual funds are not available to individual investors. DFA board members and consultants include some of the world's most distinguished academic theorists: Eugene Fama, Kenneth French, Roger Ibbotson, Donald Keim, and Nobel laureate Myron Scholes.
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