Would A Film About Investing Help?

One of the few firms that I believe to have been consistent with their approach to investing and providing evidence-based analysis with decent investor value, is Dimensional Fund Advisers. Founded in 1981, and staffed with Nobel prize winners, they recently surpassed $1 trillion under management. In essence, Dimensional argue that a proper philosophy, process and purpose are everything that a successful investor requires.

They recently produced a ‘film’ which is aired on YouTube called Tune Out The Noise. Now I should caution, that I am biased, Dimensional have formed a key part of my development as both an adviser and owner of a financial planning business. So I will hang my hat on the peg of “this is a company I rate very highly indeed”. They produce some excellent resources for advisers and their clients, many of which I have used over the years. These all help to make investing easier to understand and to help all investors take a long-term approach to “getting rich”.

Dimensional would argue that buying the haystack is a better approach than searching for the needle, however they would look to long-term data trends which reveal that the most successful returns are achieved by those with a tilt towards value, small companies and profitable businesses (the latter which one would have thought of as rather basic, but looking at the accounts of some very large firms, you will observe that profit isn’t always there).

Anyway, if you would like to take advantage of their free to view film, 90 minutes about value for money – here it is.