DFAC News and Press, Dimensional U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF From 06/05/23

2023-06-05 11:47:45 ET Wells Fargo outlined on Monday that actively managed long only funds have benefited in 2023 while not fully buying into artificial intelligence boom. “Large-cap fundamental ( LCF ) PMs gained ground in the AI-fueled market, but small-cap and Quant PMs l...

2023-04-26 09:18:23 ET Russell Investments believes that actively managed portfolios are the attractive choice in 2023 as markets look to navigate an investment landscape of economic uncertainty. The financial firm argued that an actively managed stance can be beneficial for both the fixed ...

2023-03-11 04:30:32 ET Summary ETFs started out as just another form of index-matching alternative to mutual funds. But today, there are now over 1000 actively managed ETFs. While actively managed ETFs and mutual funds have pretty consistently trailed passively managed ones in...

In April, the company received $85 million in cash as part of a settlement with Tronox, but its market valuation has increased by $82 million since then. Titanium dioxide prices have increased significantly over the past several months, but 2022 could be another bad year for Venator d...

Stocks had a ripsnorter of a rally last week and a lot of people are pondering the question in the title over this long weekend. Sentiment is certainly negative right now by several measures. Sentiment surveys (AAII, Investor’s Intelligence, etc.) are universally negative becau...

Beyond the broad S&P benchmark, 45% of NASDAQ 100 stocks are already off more than 50%, which only happened as part of the larger-than-historically-average bear markets of 2000-02 and 2008-09. The last eight times the S&P 500 was down in a calendar year, bonds finished the yea...

The expected risk premium continued sliding in April for the Global Markets Index (GMI). Tuesday’s revision reflects a drop to a 5.4% annualized increase for the long term – a relatively large cut of 40 basis points from last month’s estimate. The forecast ref...

Inflation expectations have kept the Federal Reserve center stage as they commenced their interest rate rising cycle in March. The war in Ukraine and Omicron’s spread in China impacted inflation and supply chains differently, but both delay supply chain normalization. Regar...

The expected risk premium for the Global Market Index ticked slightly higher in March to an annualized 5.8% pace, fractionally above last month’s estimate. Using short-term momentum and medium-term mean-reversion market factors (defined below) to adjust the forecast trims GMI&#...

Pick any barometer of costs these days, and the story is the same: Prices are up - and in a dramatic fashion. The first thing that jumps out is the dismal performance of most asset classes during periods of low growth and high inflation - otherwise known as stagflation. A solid fo...