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Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Quiet Investing Science

Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Don McDonald

Business, Investing, Education, How To

4.5811 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

On today's Talking Real Money, Don McDonald welcomed two special guests from Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA)—founder David Booth and co-CEO Dave Butler—to discuss their unique investment philosophy and the importance of tuning out financial noise. The conversation centered around DFA's documentary, "Tune Out the Noise," which emphasizes an academically-based investment strategy focused on sensible, disciplined investing rather than market timing and stock picking. Don and his guests explained...

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0:00.0

Reality Radio for a really great future.

0:08.0

We're talking real money.

0:10.3

Well, it's talking real money time again.

0:12.7

We're always here talking real money.

0:14.4

But what we try to do is we try to talk about money quietly, quietly, sensibly, logically, without all of the confusion, the craziness that you hear

0:28.0

so much of the time, as a matter of fact, Wall Street, Wall Street media, the financial

0:35.4

press, is mainly just a bunch of noise.

0:44.5

Now, I've been hosting financially oriented talk shows for about 35 years.

0:52.4

One of the early believers in no-load funds, then a guy by the name of

0:57.5

Paul Merriman, told me all about this wonderful way of investing that is academically based

1:07.2

and coincidentally, a whole lot less noisy.

1:13.7

It's, it's, it makes, it just makes sense.

1:17.8

And the kind of investing that we're talking about, we have, we have been proponents of

1:22.5

for, for decades now here on talking real money.

1:25.4

And that is the academically based approach that is used

1:30.1

by the pioneering firm in this space. And that firm is dimensional fund advisors, the DFA. And we have

1:38.6

been huge proponents of DFA funds. And they've been huge friends of ours with incredible educational

1:45.6

resources that we've used for years and really some incredibly brilliant people.

1:52.4

And I'm just thrilled to have two of the most brilliant people at DFA, the founder and the chairman

2:00.7

of the board, David Booth, and the co-CEO of

2:05.2

Dimensional Dave Butler on the show. We don't have guests very often, but when they come this

2:10.2

special, we have them on. Gentlemen, thanks so much for being a part of talking real money. Welcome

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