2020 Market Review: An Unprecedented Year
Explore Dimensional Fund Advisor's full report on this unprecedented year. It’s filled with evidence of the hopes, fears, challenges, and opportunities that continue to shape the world today.
Pain, Discovery and Prayers Answered: Celebrating 10 Years for Cogent Strategic Wealth
We all experience pain and loss in our lives. But I believe in turning missteps into learning moments by reflecting on how to avoid them moving forward. So over time, I asked myself: What can I do differently in the future? How can I prevent this from happening again?
Stock Market Review: A Decade at a Glance
A short-sighted look at the stock market may not tell you the complete story. However, by making comparisons over ten years, you can have a clearer view of the data.
2018 Year in Review: Objectivity by Dimensional Fund Advisors
If there’s one thing Dimensional Fund Advisors is unlikely to ever be accused of, it’s having a flair for the dramatic. Then again, that’s why we find their objective insights so appealing. In under 20 words, Dimensional offers us a marvelously compact context for considering current events.
Perspective: Our Annual Year in Review for 2017
Overall, the view is quite pleasant for most global and domestic returns alike, even though few financial forecasters were predicting this sort of slam dunk at the outset of the year. Digging deeper into the heady, mostly double-digit 2017 stock market returns, there’s another important theme found in this year’s data: While the profitability premium was positive across most markets, small-cap and value premia often underperformed their large-cap and growth counterparts.
