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Part I - Part
II Mark Hebner explains the 12-Steps.
Mark Hebner is the President of Index Funds Advisors,
Inc., author of the www.ifa.com web site, editor and owner of www.indexfunds.com,
and author of the book, Index Funds: The 12-Step Program, Active Investors
Anonymous. He has attended eighteen conferences on index funds investing
and is considered the leading internet provider of information on
index funds. He is an Investment Advisor Representative and has a
Masters in Business Administration from the University of California
at Irvine.
How
The Really Smart Money Invests
Society
improves through academia, yet sadly, many people make investment
decisions based on the appeal of a slick marketing campaign
or a well-produced television commercial. The key to
successful investing is to harness the meaningful research
conducted by the brightest minds in academia and develop a
conviction driven relationship that helps to guide the investment
process.
Interview
with Eugene Fama
Professor
Fama is arguably the best-known financial economist in the world.
He coined the phrase "The Efficient Market Theory." This interview
is approximately 15 minutes long and includes 17 questions that
Professor Fama provides his esteemed point of view. You will
find him both engaging and humorous. You will hear what few
people have heard from one of the world`s most informed professors
of economics. See more of Eugene Fama's research from the Social
Science Reseach Network. There has been about
10 million article downloads and Fama's research makes up
#1 downloaded paper and three of the
Top Ten. Fama appears to be
in line for a future Nobel Prize.
Interview
with Eugene Fama
Professor
Fama is among the most prolific and cited thinkers in finance
today. In this interview, he discusses the origins of his interest
in economics, the origins of Dimensional, his thirty year career
at The University of Chicago, and what has changed (and remained
the same) in the economic world during that time.
Interview
with Kenneth French
Professor
French is the co-author of the landmark paper in the June 1992
issue of the Journal of Finance, titled The Cross-Section of
Expected Stock Returns . His research,
along with Eugene Fama, is the cornerstone of many of the DFA
Index Funds. Their research lead to the three-factor model to
measure different types of risks and expected returns. This
model changed the world of finance. See more of Kenneth French's
research from the Social
Science Research Network.
Interview
with Kenneth French
As
the Director of Investment Strategy, Professor French splits
his time between the trading floors of Dimensional and the lecture
halls of Dartmouth. In this interview, he discusses the evolution
of Dimensional's trading system and the role of tax management,
patient trading, momentum and the ideas of behavioral finance.
Interview
with Rex Sinquefield
Rex
Sinquefield has contributed many articles for books, academics
and professional journals. Best known among these is the book
Stocks, Bonds, Bills and Inflation , which he co-authored with
Roger Ibbotson. He has also lectured on Private Equity, VCs,
and Alternative Investments.
Interview
with David Booth
David
Booth is Chairman and CEO of Dimensional Fund Advisors.Mr. Booth
has written numerous articles, best known among those is the
article, "Diversification Returns and Asset Contributions,"
which he co-authored with Prof. Eugene Fama. This paper earned
the authors the Graham & Dodd Award for best article in the
Financial Analysts Journal in 1992.