May 29, 2013: 876. The Art of Letting Go
May 29, 2013: 875. Book Review - Modern Principles: Macroeconomics
May 29, 2013: 874. A Stock Picker's Market?
May 23, 2013: 873. Investors Continue to Be Their Own Worst Enemy
May 21, 2013: 872. Recent Enhancements to Small Cap Investment Strategies
May 20, 2013: 871. Stupid Is As Stupid Says
May 20, 2013: 870. What we can learn from a Retiring Market Strategist
May 14, 2013: 869. Memo from the 99% to Goldman: Keep Your Hedge Funds!
May 15, 2013: 868. When Is the Right Time to Take Social Security Benefits?
May 15, 2013: 867. Save Yourself the Headache…And The Hole in Your Wallet!
May 14, 2013: 866. The Capitalism, Inc. Stock Certificate
May 14, 2013: 865. To Roth or Not to Roth in Your 401(k)?
May 14, 2013: 864. The Never-Ending Pursuit of Alpha – Updated
May 13, 2013: 863. Man vs. Machine: A Battle Best Avoided
May 13, 2013: 862. The Cost of Trading: Seeing the Full Picture
May 13, 2013: 861. The Evolution of Dimensional - David Booth
May 8, 2013: Ask Matt: How much do I invest to pay for college? - USA Today
May 7, 2013: 860. Style Drift on Steroids
May 6, 2013: Smart Sustainable Investing - CNBC.com
May 2, 2013: IFA's Approach to Minimizing Cash Drag
May 1, 2013: Sell in May? Forget about It!
May 1, 2013: You Have to Be in Gold - Weston Wellington
Apr. 30, 2013: The Rule of 72: A Mathematical Thing of Beauty
Apr. 30, 2013: The Matrix Book: A DFA Tradition
Apr. 29, 2013: Gold: And Then There's The Downside!
Apr. 26, 2013: F.A. Hayek: A Progenitor of Market Efficiency
Apr. 26, 2013: The 12-Step Recovery Program for Retirement Gamblers
Apr. 26, 2013: Smart Sustainable Investing
Apr. 23, 2013: College Savings Analyzer
Apr. 22, 2013: The amazing book has never been available to the public. For the first time in 30 years... here it its: The DFA Matrix Book 2013
Apr. 17, 2013: Taking Stock of the STOCK Act
Apr. 16, 2013: Vanguard Makes the Case for Indexing
Apr. 15, 2013: The Misuse of ETFs and Index Funds
Apr. 12, 2013: Another Arithmetic Lesson from William Sharpe
Apr. 11, 2013:Saving for College: Addressing a Significant Financial Challenge (Third of a Three Part Series)
Apr. 4, 2013: 1Q/2013: The Quarter in Review
Apr. 4, 2013: Running to Stand Still
Apr. 3, 2013: "We're Only Human" – A Look Inside the Psychology of Investor Behavior
Apr. 3, 2013: What's a Mother to Do?
Apr. 1, 2013: Active vs. Passive: 2012 Standard & Poor's Update
Apr. 1, 2013: Momentum: A Fourth Factor
Apr. 1, 2013: Index Funds Day!
Mar. 27, 2013: Hedge Funds: A Deeper Look into their Returns
Mar. 21, 2013: CalPERS™ Continued Setbacks Might Lead to Greener Pastures For Everyone!
Mar. 20, 2013: Index Funds are Parasitic? That's a New One!
Mar. 20, 2013: SAC Capital Sets a New Record, but Not One to Boast About
Mar. 18, 2013: Saving for College: Addressing a Significant Financial Challenge (Second of a Three Part Series)
Mar. 14, 2013: Expensive Mistakes
Mar. 13, 2013: Dow 20,000? Not Quite Yet!
Mar. 12, 2013: What Is Your Fund's Active Share, and Should You Care?
Mar. 9, 2013: IFAsustainable.com: We are passionate about providing a clear alternative for investors who want to include sustainable and forward-thinking strategies into a research based, time-tested investment approach.
Mar. 8, 2013: Northern Exposure: Short-Sighted by Brad Steiman
Dec. 26, 1983 (Yes, that is the correct date... almost 30 years ago) Fortune Magazine: Can you beat the stock market? This well written and thought provoking article does a good job discussing the risk factors that impact stock market returns. DFA started in 1981, so it interesting they are mentioned in this 1983 article as "a hot new fund group." For 2010 and 2011, DFA ranked number 1 for Advisor Loyalty. As a follow up to this article, we suggest: Fortune Kookie and Warren Buffett, Market Efficiency and the Disappearance of Alpha.
Mar. 5, 2013: Happy 14th Birthday IFA!
Mar. 2, 2013 Papers Cited in IFA's Investment Policy Statement
Mar. 2, 2013 The new video for Mark Hebner's Book, Index Funds
Mar. 2, 2013 Isn't It Ironic
Feb. 14, 2013 Betting against the House - Weston Wellington
Feb. 11, 2013 Unrealized Capital Gains vs. Investment Gains: An Important Distinction - Jay Franklin
Feb. 5, 2013 Betting Against Buffett: So Far Not So Good - Jay Franklin
Feb. 1, 2013 The Other Side of Value: The Gross Profitability Premium Robert Novy-Marx - "While traditional value strategies finance the acquisition of inexpensive assets by selling expensive assets, profitability strategies exploit a different dimension of value, financing the acquisition of productive assets by selling unproductive assets. Because the two effects are closely related, it is useful to analyze profitability in the context of value."
Jan. 31, 2013 Top RIA's Top Business Model: Keep Your Hands Off! - Mark Hebner says a high-quality passive approach will boost clients' financial performance and lead to a more fruitful long-term relationship
Jan. 23, 2013 What Some People Will Do to Beat the Market! - Jay Franklin
Jan. 22, 2013 An Explanation of IFA's New Tagline
Jan. 20, 2013 Warren Buffett's Advice: Buy Index Funds
Jan. 18, 2013 Jack Bogle on CNBC
Jan. 15, 2013 7 Reasons Why Bond Ladders Are Bad for Investors
Jan. 15, 2013 This Cat Can Pick Stocks Better Than Most Investment Managers
Jan. 15, 2013 Amateur Investors Are 3.2 Percent Worse Than Chimpanzees At Picking Stocks
Jan. 15, 2013 10 Questions About Investing In Index Funds: An Interview With Mark Hebner
Jan. 11, 2013 2012: Another Dismal Year for Active Managers and Market Predictors
Jan. 11, 2013 IFA's Concerns with Laddered Bond Portfolios
Jan. 10, 2013 Bond Investing: Laddered or Individual Bonds versus Passive Bond Funds - Crowdsource: Dr. Stephen Messana of Flint, Michigan. If you have a good article to contribute to ifa.com, please send it us.
Jan. 7, 2013 2012: The Year It Didn't Happen - Weston Wellington
Jan. 5, 2013 15 Amazing Charts and Tables Updated for Year End 2012
Jan. 5, 2013 The IFA Index Calculator: 1928-2012, 85 Years, or 1,020 Months of 140 IFA Index Portfolios; and 20 IFA Indexes, a total of 142,800 Monthly Returns - A Worldwide Exclusive - Only at IFAcalc.com
Jan. 3, 2013 2012: The Year in Review - Jay Franklin
Jan. 3, 2013 The Tax Implications of the "Fiscal Cliff" Bill Passed on January 2nd
Dec. 21, 2012 New Website to Help Stop Investment Scams - Jay Franklin
Dec. 11, 2012 Ponzi Schemes After Madoff: A Sad Story Continues - Jay Franklin
Dec. 10, 2012 Forecasting Stock Market Returns: Why We Don't Do It - Jay Franklin
Dec. 2, 2012 New Chart from the IFA Media Lab: Growth of $1,000 in 100 Index Portfolios. (roll over the bars)
Nov. 30, 2012 Tax Rates and Stock Returns - Jay Fanklin
Nov. 29, 2012 What a License Plate Reveals - Jay Franklin
Nov. 23, 2012 Why It's Not Different This Time - IFA.tv
Nov. 9, 2012 Warren Buffett, Market Efficiency and the Disappearance of Alpha
Nov. 6, 2012 Deja Vu: Sandy and the Great Blizzard of 1888 - Mark Hebner
Nov. 5, 2012 Mark Hebner's appearance on the PBS Nightly Business Report
Nov. 1, 2012 The 7 Most Important Equations for Your Retirement - A New Book by Moshe Milevsky
Oct. 26, 2012 The New UBS Mortgage REIT Leveraged ETN - Taking Risk to Dizzying Heights - Jay Franklin
Oct. 23, 2012 When Two Minuses Do Not Make a Plus - Jay Franklin
Oct. 19, 2012 The Google Earnings Debacle: The Piranhas Attack - Jay Franklin
Oct. 18, 2012 The Top Ten Money Excuses - Jim Parker
Oct. 17, 2012 Sector Rotation: A Sound Investment Approach or an Exercise in Futility? - Jay Franklin
Oct. 15, 2012 Hedge Fund Warnings from the SEC - Jay Franklin
Oct. 11, 2012 Try Candor and Humility With Your Clients - Mark Hebner on CNBC Money Talks
Oct. 4, 2012 Another Wall of Worry - Weston Wellington
Sept. 11, 2012 A Problem with Jack Bogle? I Don't Think So! - Jay Franklin
Sept. 11, 2012 Confusion of Confusions: An adaptation of the classic masterpiece by Joseph Penso (de la Vega) on the 17th century Amsterdam Stock Exchange - Jay Franklin
Sept. 7, 2012 The Economic Consequences of the New Deal - Tyler Collins
Aug. 16, 2012 Two Silly Predictions You Should Ignore
Aug. 15, 2012 The Massive Hypocrisy of the "Seeking Alpha" Conference
Aug. 14, 2012 Reports of the Death of Equities Have Been Greatly Exaggerated: Explaining Equity Returns. Ben Inker of GMO responds to Bill Gross' claim of the Death of Equities
Aug, 13 2012 Amsterdam: Where It All Began, by Jay Franklin
Aug, 9 2012 The $7.8 Billion Rip-off of State Retirement Systems Has an Easy Fix - The hard working employees who are depending on the decent returns from plan assets fared poorly.
Aug, 7 2012 Knightmare on Wall Street, by Weston Wellington, DFA - Question: Which of the following statements applies to last week's stock market behavior?
Aug, 6 2012 Pension-Gate Continues - Maryland has been Called Out, by Jay Franklin - Last week, The Maryland Public Policy Institute and the Maryland Tax Education Foundation issued a report by Jeff Hooke and Michael Tasselmyer titled, "Wall Street Fees and the Maryland Public Pension Fund"
Aug, 2 2012 Caught Short! A Saga of Wailing Wall Street, by Jay Franklin
July 28, 2012 The Greatest Hits of Investing, by Brad Steiman, DFA - "As F.A. Hayek pointed out in his Nobel laureate lecture, “we are only beginning to understand how subtle and efficient is the communication mechanism we call the market. It garners, comprehends and disseminates widely dispersed information better and faster than any system man has deliberately designed.”
July 27, 2012 Where are the Customers' Yachts? or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street - Jay Franklin
June 29, 2012 Credit Ratings vs. Market Pricing - DFA Special Article
June 28, 2012 A Busy Week in the World of High Finance - Jay Franklin
June 27, 2012 Actively Managed Funds Continue to Lose Market Share - Jay Franklin
June 26, 2012 Reaching for Yield: Junk and Other High-Risk Bonds - Jay Franklin
June 25, 2012 When Truth is Stranger than Fiction - Jay Franklin
June 25, 2012 Investing Anomalies - Roger Trinwith
June 22, 2012 Eugene Fama: Perspectives on Financial Research - Enterprising Investor
June 19, 2012 "Index Funds" by Mark Hebner - A Gem - Taylor Larimore
June 18, 2012 Do Active Managers Earn Their Fees? - Eugene Fama
June 18, 2012 The Eurozone and Greece: A Client Update - Dimensional
June 15, 2012 Mutual Fund Managers may owe Their Success to Luck More Than Skill, and That Luck will Turn, Research Shows - PRWEB
June 12, 2012 Index-Fund Investing: Revisiting a Piece of Investment History - Jay Franklin
June 4, 2012 Naked Short-Selling: Two Big Wall Street Firms Get Exposed - Jay Franklin
June 3, 2012 IFA.tv - How to Build Globally Diversified Asset Class Portfolios
June 3, 2012 IFA.tv - A Challenge to Market Efficiency?
June 3, 2012 IFA.tv - What Does the Market Know?
June 2, 2012 Take a look at the IFAlibrary.com: 490 vintage books published before 1970! Mostly lessons about what investors should not do!
May 31, 2012 Compare YTD returns for IFA Environmentally Conscious Index Portfolios to the IFA Index Portfolios (without environmentally conscious funds)
May 31, 2012 Compare YTD returns for IFA Tax-Managed Index Portfolios to the IFA Index Portfolios (without tax-managed funds)
May 24, 2012 IFA's Concerns with IPOs - Jay Franklin
May 23, 2012 A Big Bang for 401(k) Plans? - Jay Franklin
May 22, 2012 Active vs. Passive: A Deeper Look into Fixed Income - Jay Franklin
May 15, 2012 The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Report on Venture Capital Funds: A Cautionary Tale
May 14, 2012 IFA.tv - An Hour with Harry Markowitz, Ph.D., Nobel Laureate
May 6, 2012 IFA.tv: Interview with Dave Butler, Head of Global Financial Advisor Services for Dimensional Fund Advisors. - Part 1 | Part 2
May 2, 2012 Mal-location of Capital - Roger Trinwith
May 2, 2012 Wall Street: the other Las Vegas - Jay Franklin
May 1, 2012 Books of the Doomsday Genre: Read This before You Read One of Them - Jay Franklin
April 19, 2012 Exchange-Traded Notes: We Hate to Say We Told You so, but... - Jay D. Franklin
April 14, 2012 Peter Lynch, His Disciples and Warren Buffett: Luck or Skill? You be the judge.
April 10, 2012 Science Meets Art: Asset Location
April 9, 2012 The Science and Art of Investing Can Harm Your Returns
April 1, 2012 IFA's new Risk Capacity Survey for Institutions - www.ifarcsi.com
March 29, 2012 Betting vs. Investing: What We Can Learn from Mega Millions - Jay D. Franklin
March 29, 2012 How I made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market - Jay D. Franklin
March 22, 2012 Betting vs. Investing: What We Can Learn from March Madness - Jay D. Franklin
March 21, 2012 Where the Money Grows - Jay D. Franklin
March 20, 2012 MF Global and the Meaning of Chutzpah
- Jay D. Franklin
March 18, 2012 What can we learn from ex-Goldman exec's resignation letter? by Matt Krantz - Mark Hebner, quoted in USA Today, sounds off on Goldman Sachs
March 14, 2012 Escaping from the Great Vampire Squid - Jay D. Franklin
March 14, 2012 Active vs. Passive: The View from Standard & Poors - Jay D. Franklin
March 9, 2012 IFA.tv -Was Bill Gross Crowned Bond King Too Soon - The Role of Fixed Income - Advisor Spotlight: Gordon Shuler
April 19, 2012 Exchange-Traded Notes: We Hate to Say We Told You so, but... - Jay D. Franklin
April 14, 2012 Peter Lynch, His Disciples and Warren Buffett: Luck or Skill? You be the judge.
April 10, 2012 Science Meets Art: Asset Location
April 9, 2012 The Science and Art of Investing Can Harm Your Returns
April 1, 2012 IFA's new Risk Capacity Survey for Institutions - www.ifarcsi.com
March 29, 2012 Betting vs. Investing: What We Can Learn from Mega Millions - Jay D. Franklin
March 29, 2012 How I made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market - Jay D. Franklin
March 22, 2012 Betting vs. Investing: What We Can Learn from March Madness - Jay D. Franklin
March 21, 2012 Where the Money Grows - Jay D. Franklin
March 20, 2012 MF Global and the Meaning of Chutzpah
- Jay D. Franklin
March 18, 2012 What can we learn from ex-Goldman exec's resignation letter? by Matt Krantz - Mark Hebner, quoted in USA Today, sounds off on Goldman Sachs
March 14, 2012 Escaping from the Great Vampire Squid - Jay D. Franklin
March 14, 2012 Active vs. Passive: The View from Standard & Poors - Jay D. Franklin
March 9, 2012 IFA.tv -Was Bill Gross Crowned Bond King Too Soon - The Role of Fixed Income - Advisor Spotlight: Gordon Shuler
March 1, 2012 Are you in a 401k plan? Visit the NEW IFA 401k site: ifa401k.com
Feb 28, 2012 The Sizzle or the Steak: Exotic Market-Linked CDs - Roger Trinwith
Feb 28, 2012 Can You Pay an Active Manager to Beat the Market for You? - Jay D. Franklin
Feb 25, 2012 IFA.tv Morningstar Managers of the Year - Show 18-2 - Mark and Tom present a variety of charts showing the performance of several mutual funds managed by individuals who were Morningstar's Manager of the Year from 1991 to 2008. See the charts here.
Feb 23, 2012 Who Has the Midas Touch? By Weston Wellington
Feb 23, 2012 A Stock-Pickers Market? By Jay D. Franklin
Feb 21, 2012 Mark provides a voice of reason in USA Today.
Feb 19, 2012 The IFA.tv First Annual Awards Show
Feb 18, 2012 If markets are so efficient and difficult to beat, what about Peter Lynch, Bill Miller, Warren Buffett, or Sixteen Managers of the Year?
Feb 17, 2012 Invest With the Silent Minority
Feb 17, 2012 New on IFA.tv: Show 17: The Revolving Door of Fund Managers
Feb 16, 2012 Your Broker Has No Clue
Feb 15, 2012 Morningstar’s Fund Manager of the Year: A Slippery Slope
Feb 14, 2012  The End of Wall Street as We Know It - And We Feel Fine
Feb 13, 2012 An interview with Eugene Fama.
Feb 10, 2012 David Swensen Advises Index Funds
Feb 09, 2012 New on IFA.tv: Show 16: Style Drifters
Feb 07, 2012  Tough Times for American Funds
Feb 06, 2012 New on IFA.tv: Show 14: Estate Planning - Basics of Estate Planning with Leslie Daff
Feb 05, 2012 New on IFA.tv: Show 14: Concerns About Hedge Funds
Feb 04, 2012 The Paradox of Skill
Feb 03, 2012 Just How Skilled of a Manager Picker Do You Need to Be?
Feb 02, 2012 Morningstar's Manager of the Year: Luck or Skill? How many years of data do you need to decide: 165, 24, 103, 77, 44, 57, 83, 35, 2,235, 60, 401, 55... Better stick with index funds. No skill or even luck required.
Feb 02, 2012 Carnival of Passive Investing - Business Insider
Jan 31, 2012 The Hedge Fund Mirage: The Illusion of Big Money and Why It’s Too Good to Be True
Jan 28, 2012 New on IFA.tv: Show 12: Sarah Simoneaux on IFA 401(k) and Show 13: The New Condensed Book
Jan 27, 2012 What You Can Learn From Suze Orman's Mistakes
Jan 25, 2012 Dirty Tricks Brokers Use to Get Your Business
Jan 20, 2012 The Right Focus Can Improve Your 2012 Returns
Jan 19, 2012 IFA.tv - Faces of Dimensional Fund Advisors
Jan 19, 2012 Embrace Uncertainty
Jan 19, 2012 Hedge of Darkness
Jan 19, 2012 Problems with Private Equity Performance
Jan 18, 2012 Year of the Yo-Yo - The New Yorker
Jan 12, 2012 Tilting Towards Small Cap Stocks: Is It Still Worthwhile?
Jan 12, 2012 Is Your Brain a Barrier to Smart Investing? - mintlife.com
Jan 11, 2012 Take Steps Now to Help Build a Retirement Nest Egg - Matt Krantz, USA Today
Jan 11, 2012 Inefficient, Schminefficient - WSJ article
Jan 11, 2012 2011 Winners Can Make You a 2012 Loser
Jan 10, 2012 Active Mutual Funds Stink Worse Than Ever - Forbes
Jan 09, 2012 Year-End Review
Jan 09, 2012 2011: Markets and Economies Around the World
Jan 05, 2012 The Best and Worst Sources of Financial Advice
Jan 05, 2012 Two and Twenty: So how's that working for you? The Underperformance of Hedge Funds
Jan 04, 2012 Einstein’s Theory… of Investing
Jan 03, 2012 2011: The Year in Review
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