private industry finance founded 1981 headquarters austin texas usa key people david g. booth co ceo eduardo repetto co ceo products money manager and investment firm number of employees approx . 1000 website www.dimensional.com dimensional fund advisors abbreviated as dimensional is an investment firm headquartered in austin texas united states and has affiliates with offices in the us canada uk germany netherlands australia singapore and japan . the company was founded in 1981 by david g. booth and rex sinquefield both graduates of the university of chicago s school of business now known as the booth school of business . the company offers over 100 equity and fixed income mutual funds . dimensional has 414.0 billion in assets under management as of april 29 2016 . institutional investors can access dimensional funds directly or through their consultant . individual investors can access dimensional funds through financial professionals or through their retirement plans both 401k and defined benefit or certain 529 college savings plans . the company is owned by its employees board members and outside investors which as of 2005 was reported to include governor arnold schwarzenegger of california . 1 2 on november 6 2008 the university of chicago graduate school of business announced a 300 million gift from david booth in the form of cash and the income stream from dimensional stock . the school was renamed the university of chicago booth school of business . 3 4 on december 2 2009 dimensional announced the acquisition of smartnest a retirement planning computer software company . 5 the technology offered by smartnest was developed by robert c. merton who left the company s board after the purchase to become resident scientist . citation needed the firm sells through financial advisors as their products are unavailable to the general consumer who may now be aware of the company s principals . 6 among those who are trained to advise clients and provide the products are mz capital in washington dc 6 cjm fiscal in new york 7 8 and integrity investment advisors in colorado as well as others . notes edit the truth about arnold by peter byrne . salon.com february 15 2005 ; see also schwarzenegger s next goal on dogged ambitious path by bernard weinraub and charlie leduff . new york times august 17 2003 . the evolution of an investor by michael lewis . portfolio magazine december 2007 . associated press alum gives u of chicago 300m for business school dead link the university of chicago booth school of business inklebarger timothy 2009 12 02 . dimensional adds retirement planning software firm . pensions & investments . retrieved 2013 05 12 . a b hunnicutt trevor 14 sep 2015 . dimensional fund advisors posts 77th consecutive month of positive sales . investment news . dimensional fund advisors . cjm website . charlie massimo . why dimensional funds dfa vs. vanguard funds . integrity investment advisors . integrity advisors cite . external links edit official site morningstar profile fama french forum businessweek.com retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title dimensional fund advisors & oldid 733204509 categories investment management companies of the united statesmutual fund familiescompanies established in 1981companies based in austin texashidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from november 2012all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from april 2016 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 6 august 2016 at 04 46 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view