There’s an exciting buzz around the office whenever the new Dimensional Fund Matrix Books are delivered. The books themselves are beautiful: Page after page of mesmerizing returns data, large enough to share comfortably around a conference table. As we flip the pages, endless opportunities present themselves to discuss the benefits of global diversification and the value of balanced investment portfolios.
Over the course of the next week, we’ll be presenting a few of those discussions and take a closer look at some of the conclusions we can gather from this year’s data.
In this first of three videos, DFA VP Joel Hefner uses Matrix Book data to illustrate the randomness of equity market performance across countries. Can you guess which countries led the world in annual returns in 2015? (We think you’ll be surprised!)
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