by Dimensional

2020, Looking Back on an Unprecedented Year
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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How Much Impact Will The Biden Presidency Have On Stocks?
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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2020 Q3 Market Review
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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Think Twice About Chasing the Biggest Stocks
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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Market Returns Through a Century of Recessions
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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What History Tells Us About Elections and the Market
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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Bulls, Bears, and Long-Term Benefits of Stock Investing
Stock returns are volatile, but nearly a century of bull and bear markets shows that the good times have outshined the bad times.
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Lump-Sum Investing vs. Dollar-Cost Averaging
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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The Futility of Market Timing
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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Giant Firms Atop The Market Is Nothing New
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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The Road To The Market’s Long-Term Average Can Be Bumpy
The road to the market’s long-term average can be bumpy. A long term perspective can help investors weather the ups and downs. Video Source: David ...
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When Stocks and the Economy Diverge
Do you find it puzzling when a bleak economic report emerges from the press, only to be accompanied by a positive surge in the stock ...
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Building Satellites and Designing Portfolios
Jed Fogdall from Dimensional details his transition from satellite engineering to portfolio management—and how both roles require cutting through noise to find what really matters ...
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The Cost of Missing The Best Days In The Market
If you had invested $1000 in 1970, how much would it be worth today? What if you missed the best performing single day during this ...
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Can Small Cap Stocks Weather the Storm?
With recession concerns intensifying in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, investors may be wondering whether small cap stocks are poised to struggle. Are small ...
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Mutual Fund Landscape Analysis 2020
Dimensional’s 2020 analysis of US-based mutual funds shows that only a small percentage of funds have outperformed industry benchmarks after costs—and among top-ranked funds based ...
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Long-Term Investors, Don’t Let a Recession Faze You
With activity in many industries sharply curtailed in an effort to reduce the chances of spreading the coronavirus, some economists say a recession is inevitable, ...
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Sticking to Principles
A famous American football coach once said, “You don’t rise to the occasion, you sink to the level of your training.”1 The implication is that, in ...
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