How to enhance the odds of investing success - Q&A with Dimensional

About the session

This webinar is brought to you by Endowus in partnership with Dimensional Fund Advisors. 

With the S&P 500 index continuing its dominance of global equity markets and clinching its best start to the year since 2019, sentiment has been increasingly divided among investors, moving between optimism about a sustained rally and concerns that the market is approaching a peak and “imminent” pullback. Investors are left concerned on how to think about their exposures and portfolio allocations.

Is now the right time to invest? Why should I own anything other than the S&P 500 in my portfolio? How do market events, such as the upcoming US elections, affect my portfolio and investments? What does financial science and data have to say about the current market environment relative to history and how can investors use that information to increase the odds of their long-term investing success?

Endowus warmly invites you to an evening with Apollo Lupescu, Vice President from Dimensional Fund Advisors and Yulin Liu, Investment Lead at Endowus to help put all these things into perspective. Find out how global equity and bond investors can optimise their portfolios amid this interesting time, as the speakers discuss:

1. What every investor should know when investing during market highs

2. The importance of a globally diversified approach to investing, specifically in the face of a single market’s continued dominance

3. How to avoid the most common mistakes retail investors make

4. Evidence-based investing and the real difference between trying to outguess, tracking, and trusting the market

5. Dimensional Fund Advisors and evidence-based investing in practice‍

Chapters

0:00 - Introduction
‍8:28 - How Dimensional works with Endowus
‍14:11 - Dimensional’s academic research in investing
‍25:12 - Key principles in riding market volatility
‍31:30 - How to diversify and mitigate concentration risk amid a tech rally
‍35:05 - Navigating macro events: Geopolitical tensions and policy uncertainties
45:49 - Cash Vs Bond: Why fixed income makes sense
‍52:00 - Q&A section

Stay invested for the long-term and do not time the market

Want to learn more about investing in market highs through a research-based financial science backed up approach? Watch the replay of our webinar with Apollo Lupescu, Vice President at Dimensional Fund Advisors and Yulin Liu, Investment Lead at Endowus.

In the midst of market highs and uncertainty with the current divided investor sentiment, investors are left concerned about how to think about their exposures and portfolio allocations. However, it is important that we do not try to time the market and stay invested for the long term which has been evidently proven in Dimensional’s track record and Endouws’ investing philosophy.

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About the speakers

Apollo Lupescu
Vice President
Dimensional Fund Advisors
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Apollo Lupescu is a Vice President at Dimensional Fund Advisors, where he started in 2004 after finishing his PhD in economics and finance at the University of California, Santa Barbara. During his tenure at the firm, Apollo has gained experience in a wide variety of practical subject matters. He was part of the Dimensional Investment Strategies group, worked directly with financial advisors in the Northeast area to assist in the development of their business, managed the internal Client Services team that provides broad analytical support, and then oversaw the firm’s national advisor retirement business. He is currently Dimensional’s “secretary of explaining stuff.” In this role, he frequently presents around the country and the world at financial advisor professional conferences and individual investor events.
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Prior to joining Dimensional, Apollo had his own consulting firm, which provided services to the US Department of State and the White House on a variety of projects. His interests in finance and investments led him to teaching engagements at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In addition to his PhD from UCSB, Apollo has a BA from Michigan State University, where he competed in and coached water polo.

Yulin Liu
Investment Lead
Endowus
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Yulin focuses on investment due diligence and portfolio construction, and coordinates with other departments on investment-related matters. She is a member of the Investment Committee and is passionate about making investing more accessible and easier for individuals.  Her most recent role was with AQR Capital Management, where she served major institutional investors across Asia in their investment and portfolio monitoring needs.  Yulin holds a Masters in Financial Analysis (Distinction) from London Business School, and a MEng in Engineering, Economics and Management (First Class Honours) from the University of Oxford.