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It seems like a pretty easy question, doesn’t it? Surprisingly, most investors have no idea how much risk is right for them. Even worse, they have no idea how much risk they’re taking! As a result, the overwhelming majority of investors fail to earn the returns of even a simple S&P 500 Index over periods of ten or more years.

Nobel-prize winning research shows us that investors can earn higher expected returns by investing in portfolios of globally diversified index fund portfolios that match their Risk Capacity--their ability to take on stock market risk.

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To learn more about index funds investing, visit ifa.com, Index Funds Advisors’ comprehensive site about index investing. There you will find hundreds of charts, comparisons, articles, podcasts, videos and 80 years of risk and return data that comprehensively details the Science of Investing.

Index Funds Advisors (IFA) is a fee-only independent financial advisor that provides wealth management by utilizing risk-appropriate, returns-optimized, and tax-managed portfolios of index funds. IFA founder, Mark Hebner and the team at IFA have done extensive research as shown on this web site and the #1 ranked book on index funds. This research leads our clients to the optimal money management strategy, net of our advisory fees and taxes. IFA completely avoids the futile, speculative, and unnecessary cost-generating activities of stock, time, manager, and style picking. Instead, our investment strategy employs a disciplined, quantitative approach, emphasizing broad diversification and consistent exposure to the structural trends of publicly traded markets around the world, with an overweighting of small and value priced companies. In short, we invest in capitalism.

The IFA advice is based on the highly respected research indexes designed by Eugene Fama and Kenneth French and documented in their empirical and peer-reviewed publications. The two professors rank #1 and #2 on total downloads per paper among 10.5 million downloads on the Social Sciences Research Network. Our current and independent advice incorporates 80 years of IFA Indexes and Indexfolio risk and return data, third generation index fund designs and 25 years of refined passive trading techniques employed by Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA.) IFA does not accept payments from DFA or from any other recommended investments. IFA is exclusively paid by its 2,000+ clients for its advice on the optimal wealth management of approximately $1billion of assets under management, as of July 2007.