Podcasts (582)

Mark Hebner summarizes the market's performance during the third quarter of 2017 and demonstrates the difficulty in picking the next asset class winner.

This is Step 10: Risk Capacity of the full length documentary film Index Funds: The 12-Step Recovery Program for Active Investors. Watch Mark Hebner's acclaimed book come to life on screen.

This is Step 9: History of the full length documentary film Index Funds: The 12-Step Recovery Program for Active Investors. Watch Mark Hebner's acclaimed book come to life on screen.

This is Step 8: Riskese of the full length documentary film Index Funds: The 12-Step Recovery Program for Active Investors. Watch Mark Hebner's acclaimed book come to life on screen.

This is Step 7: Silent Partners of the full length documentary film Index Funds: The 12-Step Recovery Program for Active Investors. Watch Mark Hebner's acclaimed book come to life on screen.

This is Step 6: Style Drifters of the full length documentary film Index Funds: The 12-Step Recovery Program for Active Investors. Watch Mark Hebner's acclaimed book come to life on screen.

This is Step 5: Manager Pickers of the full length documentary film Index Funds: The 12-Step Recovery Program for Active Investors. Watch Mark Hebner's acclaimed book come to life on screen.

This is Step 4: Time Pickers of the full length documentary film Index Funds: The 12-Step Recovery Program for Active Investors. Watch Mark Hebner's acclaimed book come to life on screen.

This is Step 3: Stock Pickers of the full length documentary film Index Funds: The 12-Step Recovery Program for Active Investors. Watch Mark Hebner's acclaimed book come to life on screen.

This is Step 2: Nobel Laureates of the full length documentary film Index Funds: The 12-Step Recovery Program for Active Investors. Watch Mark Hebner's acclaimed book come to life on screen.

This is Step 1: Active Investors of the full length documentary film Index Funds: The 12-Step Recovery Program for Active Investors. Watch Mark Hebner's acclaimed book come to life on screen.

Rex Sinquefield talks about a variety of topics around the time IFA was founded.

Mark digs into the new 2017 SPIVA report. Once again, the data doesn't look good for active management.

Mark Hebner summarizes the market's performance during the second quarter of 2017 and demonstrates the difficulty in picking the next asset class winner.

Dr. David Blake is one of the leading authorities on mutual fund performance. He spent many years studying fund returns in both the U.K. and the U.S.

Every year, Credit Suisse publishes its global investment returns yearbook.

Professor Lars Lochstoer leads a debate between passive and active viewpoints at 2017 Fink Investing Conference. This video highlights Mark's point of view.

Why do our 100 IFA Index Portfolios utilize strategies from Dimensional Fund Advisors versus better-known passive fund companies such as Vanguard?

Kenneth French talks about a variety of topics around the time IFA was founded. Professor French is interviewed by Mark Matson in about 1999.

Eugene Fama talks about a variety of topics around the time of the founding of IFA. Professor Fama is interviewed by Mark Matson in about 1999.

Products are important, but a much bigger factor is you.

There's a whole range of biases human beings are prone to that can cause us to make poor investment decisions like Availability Bias.

Mark Hebner summarizes the market's performance during the first quarter of 2017 & demonstrates the difficulty in picking the next asset class winner.

In Part Four of Mark Hebner's interview with Dimensional Fund Advisors' Co-CEO and Co-CIO Eduardo Repetto, Eduardo talks about Dimensional's new Target Date Income Funds.

In Part Three of Mark Hebner's interview with Dimensional Fund Advisors' Co-CEO and Co-CIO Eduardo Repetto, Eduardo explains the dimensions of expected returns, also known as factor investing.

In Part Two of Mark Hebner's interview with Dimensional Fund Advisors' Co-CEO and Co-CIO Eduardo Repetto, Eduardo talks about his responsibilities at Dimensional.

Mark Hebner sits down with Dimensional Fund Advisors' Co-CEO and Co-CIO Eduardo Repetto. Eduardo explains to Mark how Dimensional approaches finance.

The Index Funds Investing Kit provides three tools that will explain how to properly and prudently invest.

One of numerous studies to show how hard it is to identify a fund manager that will outperform was conducted by Cambridge Judge Business School.

Throughout stock market history there have always been crashes and corrections.

One of the primary roles of a financial advisor is to formulate a financial plan.

One of the problems with identifying a good fund manager is distinguishing between skill and luck.

Mark Hebner summarizes the market's performance during the fourth quarter of '16 & demonstrates the difficulty in picking the next asset class winner.

David Pitt Watson is a fund industry insider. He's worked in asset management for many years.

In the final part of the Managing Expectations series, Scott Bosworth talks about the randomness of component returns.

In Part Three, Scott Bosworth talks about managing expectations in regards to start date bias.

In Part Two, Scott Bosworth talks about managing expectations as investors around the idea of perspectives on time.

In part one of a four part series, Scott Bosworth talks about how managing expectations is very important to having a successful investment experience for those of us who are investors.

One of the most important lessons we’ve learned from more than 60 years of portfolio construction is that diversifying your investments is a very good idea.

Mark Hebner summarizes the market's performance during the third quarter of 2016.

Mark Hebner sits down with Dimensional Fund Advisors Chairman, David Booth to talk about his recent purchase and donation of The Rules of Basketball to the University of Kansas.

Mark Hebner sits down with Dimensional Fund Advisors Chairman, David Booth to discuss his recent contribution to the University of Chicago.

Mark Hebner sits down with Dimensional Fund Advisors Chairman, David Booth to discuss Dimensional's expansion from institutions to individuals.

Mark Hebner sits down with Dimensional Fund Advisors Chairman, David Booth to talk about why investors should avoid timing the market.

Something that many investors fail to appreciate is that financial planning isn't just something you can do once in your life and then forget all about it. It's a lifelong process.

One of the most reliable sources of information about fund performance is SPIVA.

It's been said that diversification is the investing equivalent of a free lunch.

Mark Hebner sits down with Dimensional Fund Advisors Chairman, David Booth to talk about what investors should do in their own portfolios.

Mark Hebner sits down with Dimensional Fund Advisors Chairman, David Booth to talk about the profitability factor.

Mark Hebner sits down with Dimensional Fund Advisors Chairman, David Booth to talk about the different dimensions of risk.