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Below you will find a number of free videos that provide convenient and timely online information on the economy and markets.

Why You Stick Around in a Tough Market

Heightened market volatility has tested the discipline of investors. In this new video, Dimensional Fund Advisors' CEO, David Booth explains why it makes sense to stay invested in equities.

Why You Stick Around in a Tough Market - October 2008

Nobel Thinkers: Theory, Practice, and Implementation

Dimensional Fund Advisors and the American Finance Association present a new documentary that compares the work and ideas of five recipients of the Nobel Prize in Economics. A brief history of their theories and experiences culminates in a host of insights for today's investors.

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Nobel Thinkers: Theory, Practice, and Implementation

How they received the call and learned they had won the Nobel Prize. The origins of their prize-winning work; portfolio theory, capital asset pricing model, risk assessment, and options pricing. How did their ideas connect to the investment world? Often they resulted from the application of academic experience to practical problems. How might a Nobel laureate advise an individual investor? Diversification, index funds, turnover, asset classes, and the value of professional investment advice are cited. Also discussed are new ideas on investments during retirement and the differences between wealth management and speculative stock picking.

Dimensional Thinkers: Eugene F. Fama

Professor Fama is among the most prolific and cited thinkers in finance today. In this interview from Dimensional Fund Advisors, he discusses the origins of his interest in economics, the origins of Dimensional, his thirty year career at The University of Chicago, and what has changed (and remained the same) in the economic world during that time.

Dimensional Thinkers: Eugene F. Fama

Dimensional Thinkers: Kenneth R. French

Professor Fama is among the most prolific and cited thinkers in finance today. In this interview from Dimensional Fund Advisors, he discusses the origins of his interest in economics, the origins of Dimensional, his thirty year career at The University of Chicago, and what has changed (and remained the same) in the economic world during that time.

Dimensional Thinkers: Kenneth R. French

Retirement, Risk, and Return

Dimensional's David Booth discusses the importance of balancing volatility risk and purchasing power risk when investing for retirement. He explains that T-bills have not produced the real returns necessary to preserve living standards over the long haul, and illustrates how investors can manage both types of risk through an appropriate commitment to stocks.

Retirement, Risk, and Return - June 2009