As many of you know, we have long been believers in using investment funds from Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) and Vanguard. They have helped us build diversified portfolios in a low cost, tax efficient structure. DFA specifically has helped us tilt our portfolios towards stocks with higher expected returns, such as small stocks, value stocks and high profitability stocks. Now we would like to introduce our clients to a third company that our Investment Committee has authorized our advisors to use to implement our portfolios. Avantis Investors was created in 2019 by Eduardo Repetto, who was the former Chief Investment Officer and co-CEO of DFA. Eduardo built the firm by mostly hiring former DFA portfolio managers, relationship managers and traders. The start of Avantis Investors was financially backed by American Century Investments, which has been in the investment business since 1958 and manages over $247 billion in client assets.* This backing has...
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