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To: Paul Senior who wrote (12613)	6/26/2001 1:56:02 AM
From: Brendan W	Read Replies (4) of 78683

re: Dimensional Fund Advisors. Paul, you wrote: >>>> "...worth noting should be that DFA (Dimensional Fund Advisors) almost doubled their holding in both: ALU and PARL. " I'd say not worth noting. DFA is a strange fund imo. I'm one for lots of diversification, but these guys are ridiculous. They own pages of stuff. I'll defer to you or anybody else here who's got better knowledge, but it seems to me these folks are indexers of some kind. They're not buying on fundamentals but rather on some sector style. <<<< I run into them a lot, too. I was curious so I researched them. They are academic-based, indexers, efficient-market proponents based in Chicago. Hence, the weirdness. I think they have no mutual funds, but they must run a lot of institutional money. Their small cap value fund buys based on price to adjusted book. Their website is: www.dfafunds.com Interestingly, they claim to have a trading strategy whereby their purchases (which are large) don't affect market prices.

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