Performance data shown represents past performance and is no guarantee of future results. US-domiciled, non-Dimensional open-end mutual fund data is from Morningstar. Dimensional fund data is provided by the fund accountant. Beginning sample includes funds as of January 1, 2000. The number of beginning funds is 4,601 for the industry and 27 for Dimensional. Funds that are currently and were previously restricted to LWI Financial Inc. clients were excluded due to different historical fee structures. Dimensional subadvised funds are also excluded. Dimensional funds are evaluated relative to their prospectus benchmark. Each fund is evaluated relative to its respective primary prospectus benchmark. Surviving funds are those with return observations for every month of the sample period. Outperformers are funds that survived the 20-year period and whose cumulative net return over the period exceeded that of their respective benchmark. Where the full series of primary prospectus benchmark returns is unavailable, non-Dimensional funds are instead evaluated relative to their Morningstar category index. Index funds and funds of funds are excluded from the industry sample. Load-Waived funds are excluded from the sample. The return for funds with multiple share classes is taken as the asset-weighted average of the individual share class observations. Equity fund sample includes the Morningstar historical categories: Diversified Emerging Markets, Europe Stock, Foreign Large Blend, Foreign Large Growth, Foreign Large Value, Foreign Small/Mid Blend, Foreign Small/Mid Growth, Foreign Small/Mid Value, Global Real Estate, Japan Stock, Large Blend, Large Growth, Large Value, Mid-Cap Blend, Mid-Cap Growth, Mid-Cap Value, Miscellaneous Region, Pacific/Asia ex-Japan Stock, Real Estate, Small Blend, Small Growth, Small Value, World Large Stock, and World Small/Mid Stock. Fixed income fund sample includes the Morningstar historical categories: Corporate Bond, High Yield Bond, Inflation-Protected Bond, Intermediate Core Bond, Intermediate Core-Plus Bond, Intermediate Government, Long Government, Muni California Intermediate, Muni California Long, Muni Massachusetts, Muni Minnesota, Muni National Intermediate, Muni National Long, Muni National Short, Muni New Jersey, Muni New York Intermediate, Muni New York Long, Muni Ohio, Muni Pennsylvania, Muni Single State Intermediate, Muni Single State Long, Muni Single State Short, Muni Target Maturity, Short Government, Short-Term Bond, Target Maturity, Ultrashort Bond, World Bond, and World Bond-USD Hedged.
