Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) is an investment management company that prides itself on basing its investment strategy on sound scientific research. Many of the most famous works of scientific funding in the past two decades (especially by Eugene Fama and Kenneth French, who worked closely with DFA) led to the DFA investment strategies. DFA began as a small equity funds, trying to take advantage of the "size effect" (the excess of small stocks), which was discovered by a number of academic researchers. Later, DFA added "value" strategy for its mix of offerings.
After research documented superior performance value of shares in a number of countries, DFA began creating various international stock price and small funds. The company was very successful, despite missing out on a great 1990s boom, increase in stock. Assets under management of DKA increased from $ 8 billion to $ 40 billion between 1991 and 2002. The price of shares and completing the first two years of the new decade, DFA is experiencing constant growth investor base and are now looking for new areas where it can add value for investors, while continuing to assert that no specific "stock-picking" ability. "Hide
by Randolph B. Cohen Source: HBS Premier Case Collection 21 pages. Publication Date: September 30, 2002. Prod. #: 203026-PDF-ENG
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