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David Booth on Founding a Firm Based On Revolutionary Academic Innovations (Part 2)

David Booth on Founding a Firm Based On Revolutionary Academic Innovations (Part 2)

Update: 2025-04-28
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In Part 2, David Booth reflects on how Dimensional Fund Advisors expanded by partnering with fee-only financial advisors, helping to bring academic investing principles to individual clients. He emphasizes the importance of low fees both in appealing to personal investors and in delivering superior results to them. Booth discusses how his collaboration with leading finance professors led him to regard the University of Chicago as a business partner and describes his gift to the school as a “partnership distribution.”

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David Booth on Founding a Firm Based On Revolutionary Academic Innovations (Part 2)

David Booth on Founding a Firm Based On Revolutionary Academic Innovations (Part 2)

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