Part of the reason we use Dimensional Fund Advisor (DFA) Mutual Funds in our investment portfolios is because of their long-run track record of out-performance as measured against their peers. This attachment includes the below table, which I have copied and pasted. The yellow part of the bar represents mutual funds no longer in existence – this could be because the funds didn’t survive for lack of performance or lack of interest, and it includes funds that were rolled into other funds; the blue represents the proportion of surviving funds placing behind DFA; the black line is DFA’s placement; and the grey represents the proportion of surviving funds placing ahead of DFA. Nothing is guaranteed going forward and past performance is not indicative of future results, but it is great to see so many DFA funds (of which our money is invested in most of them) near the top over a significant period.
Don’t be confused by the terms equity and fixed income, they are just fancy words for stocks (equity) and bonds (fixed income).
