Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) vs Indexing

Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) Founder, David Booth, discusses Dimensional's view of index investing.

Growing evidence that professionally managed funds did not seem to outperform funds picked by random selection led to the creation of index funds in the mid-1960s. Since their creation, index funds have been an overwhelming success, both for fund managers and, fortunately, their clients.

Dimensional was built on the idea that we could do better than indexing. These resources help distinguish how Dimensional’s approach is different.