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1. Ben Graham on Efficient Markets. (50 sec) Source: How the Really Smart Money Invests, 2. Professor Eugene Fama defines efficient markets. (56 sec) Source: Interview. 3. Rex Sinquefield, Co-Founder of DFA: All of us know more than any one of us. (55 sec) Source: Interview 4. Rex Sinquefield, Co-founder DFA, Can skill prevail in Efficient Markets? (46 sec) Source: Interview 5. Zvi Bodie: The Luck of the Toss. (59 sec) Source: The Trillion Dollar Bet, a Nova Special 6. Announcer: A devastating conclusion: the success of traders is due to shear luck rather than skill.  (57 sec)  Source: The Trillion Dollar Bet. 7. Merton Miller, Nobel Laureate, It's just a game of chance. (26 sec) Source: The Trillion Dollar Bet 8. Rex: Survivorship Bias of Active Manager's Returns. Part 1 (60 sec) Source: Interview 9. Rex: Survivorship Bias of Active Manager's Returns. Part 2. (28 sec) Source: Interview 10. Zvi Bodie: You don't hear about the losers. (43 sec) Source: The Trillion Dollar Bet 11. Rex Sinquefield and Mark Matson: Where do Returns Come From? (61 sec) Source: How the Really Smart Money Invests 12. Ken French on Worldwide and Time Tested Evidence of Priced Risk Factors. (60 sec) Source: Interview 13. Ken French on Value versus Growth. (30 sec) Source: Interview
14. Ken French on the Value Premium. (54 sec) Source: Interview 15. Paul Samuelson, Nobel Laureate, The History of Market Risk Management. (56 sec) Source: The Trillion Dollar Bet 16. Paul Samuelson, Nobel Laureate, The 1900 declaration of random stock market prices. (60 sec) Source: The Trillion Dollar Bet 17. Merton Miller, Nobel Laureate: Managing Risk with Probabilities. (20 sec) Source: The Trillion Dollar Bet 18. Rex Sinquefield, Co-Founder DFA:  The University of Chicago and DFA. ( 60 sec) Source: Interview) 19. Rex Sinquefield: The Birth of Index Funds. (60 sec) Source: Interview 20. Rex Sinquefield: The Birth of Index Funds: Part 2 (44 sec) Source: Interview 21. Mark Matson: Investors Chase Performance... to their detriment. (59 sec) Source: How the Really Smart Money Invests 22. Rex Sinquefield, Co-Founder DFA, The Age Old Myth and it's Victims. (57 sec) Source: Interview 23. Robert Stoval and John Stossel, But it is a different set of winners each year and lousy research. (45 sec)  Source: ABC News, 20/20 Nov 1992 24. Burton Malkiel and John Stossel, It's like giving up a belief in Santa Claus. (25 sec) Source: ABC News, 20/20 Nov 1992 24. Burton Malkiel and John Stossel,  Most of it is absolute nonsense. (58 sec) Source: ABC News, 20/20 Nov 1992 25. Dan Wheeler and Mark Matson: Step 12:Invest and Relax. (61 sec) Source: How the Really Smart Money Invests.
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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.
 
 



 
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