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Dimensional’s Quarterly Market Review (Q3 2018)
Are you speed-dating or in an ideal marriage with your investment portfolio? As Dimensional Fund Advisors’ Quarterly Market Review reveals on its summary page, investors have much to appreciate this quarter, with positive returns from U.S. and international developed stocks. Still, “appreciation” is relative; there’s always some asset class outperforming its counterparts – and some underperforming. So, let’s address a question I’ve been hearing: “My globally diversified portfolio has been underperforming the...
3 Things: Market, Market, Market
Generation Fret 1. Psychic Trauma (The Reformed Broker, 9/10/2018) “…our experience during formative years in the market can have a tendency to shape our attitudes, biases and prejudices forever. If your first ten years investing in the stock market ran from 2000 to 2009, then you watched two 50% crashes for the S&P 500, a lost decade in which the index gained 0% while the cost of living rose, a government bailout of...
Dimensional Fund Advisors: The Happiness Equation
The Happiness Equation As Brad Steiman of Dimensional fund Advisors writes in this article: Mo Gawdat, a serial entrepreneur and Chief Business Officer at Google X, tried to engineer a path to joy in his book, Solve for Happy, by expressing happiness as an equation. HAPPINESS ≥ Your Perception of the EVENTS of your life − Your EXPECTATIONS of how life should behave According to Gawdat’s model, if you perceive events as equal to...
Dimensional Fund Advisors: Do Mutual Funds Outperform Benchmarks?
Do Mutual Funds Outperform Benchmarks? Dimensional's 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 on past results, only a small percentage have repeated their success. Here's the short (2:36 minutes) video for your viewing pleasure. SAGE Serendipity: The New York Times has a great collection of 2-3 minute video's called SCIENCETAKE. Presented by science writer James Gorman, these...
3 Things: Work Life
September 13, 2018
in News
Benefits of a shorter workweek
1. Every Weekend Should Be a 3-Day Weekend (The Cut, 9/4/2015)
“The bulk of the research in medicine, sleep, cognitive science, and organizational psychology overwhelmingly suggests that a shorter workweek should be the norm rather than the holiday-weekend exception.”
Another benefit to drinking water all day
2. Why Sitting at Your Computer All Day Can Wipe You Out (The Cut, 7/19/2017)
Source: The Cut
“’We’re animals that are designed to exercise physically as well as mentally,”...
3 Things: Work Life
September 11, 2018
in Mindful living
Benefits of a shorter workweek
1. Every Weekend Should Be a 3-Day Weekend (The Cut, 9/4/2015)
“The bulk of the research in medicine, sleep, cognitive science, and organizational psychology overwhelmingly suggests that a shorter workweek should be the norm rather than the holiday-weekend exception.”
Another benefit to drinking water all day
2. Why Sitting at Your Computer All Day Can Wipe You Out (The Cut, 7/19/2017)
“’We’re animals that are designed to exercise physically as well as mentally,”...
3 Things: Labor Day Hodge Podge
The financial crisis has shaken young people’s faith in capitalism A (financial) crisis of faith (John Paul Rollert, Chicago Booth Review, 8/10/2018) “A spring 2016 poll from Harvard University’s Institute of Politics finds that only 19 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 identified themselves as capitalists, and 51 percent of those surveyed said they did not support capitalism. Similarly, a YouGov poll commissioned late last fall finds...
3 Things: First-time home buyers, what is wealth, time or money
First-time home buyers having a rough go of it 1.Starter-Home Affordability Hits a Decade Low (Prashant Gopal, Bloomberg, 8/27/2018) “Starter homes are now more costly to purchase than at any time since 2008, when the last boom came to a crashing halt. In the second quarter, first-time buyers needed almost 23 percent of their income to afford a typical entry-level home, up from 21 percent a year earlier, according to an analysis...