by Robert Kolp, Renaissance Wealth Counsel | Jan 23, 2014 | What's New
Weston Wellington, Vice President at Dimensional Fund Advisors Down to the Wire Column January 7, 2014 The unusually strong performance of US stocks in 2013 was a welcome surprise for investors who are following a simple buy-and-hold strategy and a source of...
by Robert Kolp, Renaissance Wealth Counsel | Jan 23, 2014 | Insightful Articles, What's New
Beverly Goodman Barron’s Cover January 4, 2014 Dimensional Fund Advisors eschews stock-picking completely, and yet manages to beat the market consistently It was 7:30 on a sunny October morning in Austin, Texas, and class was about to start. Most students were...
by Robert Kolp, Renaissance Wealth Counsel | Aug 13, 2013 | Insightful Articles, What's New
Beverly Goodman Barron’s Online August 3, 2013 For the third time in four years, sleepy Texas-based fund shop Dimensional has topped the list of where advisors are likely to put their money. The word is getting out. Eleven years ago, I wrote a rare profile of...
by Robert Kolp, Renaissance Wealth Counsel | May 23, 2012 | What's New
This combined op ed piece and resignation explanation demonstrates the difference between investment advisors/RIAs who, like us, are bound by a fiduciary standard, and investment advisors/broker dealers who, like Goldman Sachs, have no such standard. By GREG SMITH...
by Robert Kolp, Renaissance Wealth Counsel | May 23, 2012 | What's New
After recent concern about a seemingly endless slide of equity values regardless of size and value dimensions or global location and related concern about deflation and potential economic calamity, many investors and commentators are now worrying that policymakers’...
by Robert Kolp, Renaissance Wealth Counsel | May 22, 2012 | What's New
The efficient markets hypothesis implies that no active investor will consistently beat the market over long periods of time, except by chance. Yet active managers test the hypothesis every day through their efforts to pick stocks and time markets. The evidence shows...
