This presidential election feels uniquely challenging, but I remain confident in the long-term resilience of the stock market.

John “Mac” McQuown, a founding Director of Dimensional Fund Advisors in 1981, was a financial engineer, entrepreneur, and environmentalist with an insatiable curiosity and relentless drive that led him to start more than a dozen companies in his lifetime.

The stock market overcame a spike in volatility in the third quarter, reaching record levels again, as the Fed cut rates for the first time in four years.

The market rally that began in the second half of 2023 carried over to the first half of 2024, even as inflation fell slightly and the Fed kept rates steady.

Dimensional’s annual survey of investment performance draws on historical data to look beyond short-term market fluctuations and shed light on the dimensions that explain differences in returns.

You can thrive in a world of uncertainty and create a life that is uniquely your own.

This report features world capital market performance and a timeline of events for the past quarter.

What I love is witnessing an arena full of athletes trying their absolute hardest, working together to achieve a common goal.

I believe that the key to successful investing is to cultivate a long-term perspective, where you think in decades, not days.

Global diversification can increase the reliability of outperformance for strategies pursuing higher than market returns.

Rather than seeking additional exposure to these mega-cap stocks, investors should ensure their portfolios are broadly diversified to capture the returns of whatever companies ascend to the top in the future

Historical evidence suggests that interest rates have not been meaningful predictors of stock returns.

This report features world capital market performance and a timeline of events for the past quarter.

Investors should evaluate fully representative data rather than falling for the “shiny object” of recent performance.

Good investing, like good health, requires long-term discipline and commitment.

Stock returns are volatile, but nearly a century of bull and bear markets shows that the good times have outshined the bad.

As companies grow to become some of the largest firms trading on the US stock market, the returns that push them there can be impressive. But not long after joining the Top 10 largest by market cap, these stocks, on average, lagged the market.

Markets are forward-looking and the concerns that played into Fitch’s decision are not new information to most investors.

Many investors may think a market high is a signal stocks are overvalued or have reached a ceiling.

Over the past 20 year, 92% of Dimensional’s small cap funds outperformed their benchmarks vs. only 30% industry-wide.