And the gimmicks just keep on coming

“Pssst. You say you wanna give to charity? Over here.”
Mutual fund allots portion of fee to charity
Maybe this will make fund fees easier to bear.
The Davlin Philanthropic Fund, which was launched in July, will donate one-half percentage point of its 1.65% expense ratio to charities picked by its investors.
“Instead of paying the fees to [...]

DFA’s new fund: More proof that quantitative asset allocation is not always active money management

I think it’s safe to say that quantitative strategies will continue to emerge as a form of nuanced passive investing. Digital computations are opening up allocation opportunities that humans cannot discern.
Does anyone think for a minute that Dimensional Fund Advisors will say their newest fund, developed with the help of Fama and French, is [...]