Investment Management Library

A Letter from the Chairman

David Booth, Founder and Executive Chairman of Dimensional Fund Advisors, discusses why having an investment philosophy — one that is robust and that you can stick with — cannot be overstated. He describes how Dimensional uses research to help improve understanding of what drives returns, and to gain insights on how to build sensible portfolios. 
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David Booth Brings Academic Research to Life

In 1981, David Booth co-founded an asset management firm that nurtured the innovative theories about market efficiency that had been coming from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business since the mid-1950s. Along with his partner Rex Sinquefield, another Chicago graduate, Booth shaped Austin, Texas-based Dimensional Fund Advisors into a manager that both refined these academic theories and applied them so investors could profit in the real world.  
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