issues . please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article is an orphan as no other articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . august 2016 this article relies too much on references to primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . september 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message index fund advisors type private industry finance founded march 5 1999 headquarters irvine california usa key people mark hebner products registered investment advisor website www.ifa.com index fund advisors ifa is a registered investment advisor ria headquartered in irvine california with representatives in several locations across the united states . the company was founded on march 5 1999 by mark t. hebner former president of nuclear pharmacy company syncor international with the goal of providing online automated investment adviser services with a personal touch as needed while also providing educational material regarding investing to the general public through the website ifa.com . ifa offers high net worth individuals 401k plans 403b plans foundations and endowments of an expanding range of advisory services that are consistent with ifa s investment strategy of passive management . heavily influenced by the works of nobel laureates eugene fama harry markowitz paul samuelson william f. sharpe merton miller daniel kahneman and friedrich von hayek ifa advises clients to invest in low cost index mutual funds such as those provided by dimensional fund advisors vanguard or blackrock s ishares . additionally ifa offers advice on faith based and sustainable investments through its ifasustainable.com and investingforcatholics.com sites . ifa pioneered the idea of the robo advisor when it first published their website on november 9 1999 as indexfundsadvisors.com then ifa.tv and finally as ifa.com . mark hebner pioneered the business model of a low cost online registered investment adviser which would provide an online algorithm based risk capacity survey designed to match individual investors with one of several index portfolios . these portfolios have always been implemented exclusively with index funds . the process of becoming an ifa client has not required face to face meetings and there has been minimal human intervention . ifa was among the first rias to offer an online live advisor camera streaming video and netmeeting and live chat . since 1999 ifa clients have been offered portfolio rebalancing tax loss harvesting tax management asset location extensive online education and historical index and index portfolio risk and return data . in 2012 ifa built its own in house tv studio and produces videos that are published on itunes youtube roku and ifa.tv 352 videos as of august 2016 . one of the world s largest private collections of financial books can be found at ifa with about 2 494 books dating back to 1648 . the books are catalogued and displayed on ifa.com . mark hebner is also the author of index funds the 12 step recovery program for active investors a book on behavioral finance the failure of active management and the advantages of passive investing . the book was first published in 2005 and its latest update was published in 2015 . together these various media endeavors advance hebner s mission to get investors all over the world to stop actively investing their investment portfolios . ifa s investing philosophy is based on nobel prize winning academic and empirical research including the efficient market hypothesis multi factor asset pricing models such as the fama french three factor model and more generally modern portfolio theory . ifa rejects the investment strategies generally known as active management . these strategies include stock picking market timing manager selection and tactical asset allocation . ifa reached 2.87 billion in assets under management on june 30 2016 . see also edit enhanced indexing efficient market hypothesis dimensional fund advisors robo advisor external links edit official site index funds the 12 step recovery program for active investors 9 stocks poised to fly when market crashes usa today money why raising a child actually costs you 1.4 m ten questions about investing in index funds from mint.com abc news you can get historical returns for selected stock indexes usa today ask matt why is my portfolio stagnant investment banking for dummies abc news to find your maximum return first focus on risk investing online for dummies fundamental analysis for dummies how to make a fortune from the biggest market opportunities in u.s.history secondary source brightscope profile secondary source sec form adv for index fund advisors inc. retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title index fund advisors & oldid 734486707 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