Good Episode. Here are the timestamps 0:00 - Introduction 1:50 - How it is like working with Eugene Fama. 3:05 - How Marlena describes factors. 6:20 - How Marlena explains the equity risk premium, measuring it, risk-taking, certainty in returns. 8:50 - Which factors have the largest impact on returns? Market-risk? High profitability? Value? 10:20 - Insight on how Dimensional construct their portfolio in view of these factors. Marlena uses the example of the Global Core Equity portfolio 14:00 - The premiums in fixed income 18:20 - How does Dimensional look at the various credit risk of bonds? Is it using rating companies or other ways? 22:05 - Does Dimensional take into consideration yield curve shifting up or down in Dimensional's strategies 24:25 - Are Dimensional funds index funds? If not, how is Dimensional different? (Hint: no) 28:55 - How Dimensional make use of human discretion in their portfolio management using GameStop as a case study. 32:22 - How Dimensional look at private equity, credit, other alternatives, how Dimensional stack up against them?
