It is track record through time that can be most telling with fund managers. Watch them ride out market cycles through smart thinking and investment processes robust enough to withstand the roller-coasters of financial crises. Texas-based Dimensional Fund Advisors focuses on value and small capitalisation stocks, and deals with them in a way that eschews both index-style and traditionally active trading. In this article, journalist Tim Blue of The Australian interviews Dimensional’s head of international portfolio management Graham Lennon about the firm’s understanding of risk and return.

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