US consumer prices were up by 5.4% for the year ending June 2021, the largest annual increase since August 2008.1 Naturally, inflation is at the ...
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Missing only a few days of strong returns can drastically impact overall performance. The impact of missing just a few of the market’s best days ...
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Stock market declines over a few days or months may lead investors to anticipate a down year. But the US stock market had positive returns ...
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The US stock market is the biggest in the world2, but investors who ignore other global markets may miss out on a wealth of opportunity ...
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By David Booth, Executive Chairman and Founder of Dimensional Fund Advisors It’s easy to view the stories of market speculation that have dominated the news ...
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I also recommend this great read on the GameStop saga by Larry Hatheway & Alex Friedman, "The Game Stops Here." A recent flurry of return ...
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The year 2020 proved to be one of the most tumultuous in modern history, marked by a number of developments that were historically unprecedented. But ...
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People often ask whether they should change their investments based on who wins the presidency. It’s natural for investors to seek a connection between who ...
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This report features world capital market performance and a timeline of events for the third quarter of 2020. It begins with a global overview, then ...
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As companies grow to become some of the largest firms trading on the US stock market, the returns that push them there can be impressive ...
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What does a century of economic cycles teach investors about investing? Dimensional's interactive exhibit examines how stocks have behaved during US economic downturns. Markets around ...
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Investors often wonder whether the market will rise or fall based on who is elected president. The data show that capturing the long-term returns of ...
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Stock returns are volatile, but nearly a century of bull and bear markets shows that the good times have outshined the bad times.

• From 1926 ...
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Some investors favor a dollar-cost averaging (DCA) approach to deploying their investment capital. Unlike lump-sum investing, in which the full amount of available capital is invested up front, ...
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This week, Robin Powell, a UK-based investor advocate, writes in his The Evidence-Based Investor blog: "If global stock markets have taught us anything this year, ...
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A top-heavy stock market with the largest 10 stocks accounting for over 20% of market capitalization and a marquee technology firm perched at No. 1? ...
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