Friday, February 22, 2008

Who is Rex A. Sinquefield?

Mr. Rex Sinquefield was the co-founder of Dimensional Fund Advisors and was its co-chairman until his retirement in 2005. In the 1970s, he did influential research on historical stock market returns and pioneered many of the nation's first index funds. He was the author, with Yale School of Management professor, Roger G. Ibbotson, of Stocks, Bonds, Bills and Inflation, at the time, the most comprehensive empirical study of stock market returns.

Since 2003, he has served as a member of the editorial board of the Financial Analysts Journal. Sinquefield is a director of St. Vincent Orphan's Home in St. Louis, a member of the investment committee of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, and a life trustee of DePaul University. He serves on the boards of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, the St. Louis Art Museum, and the Missouri Botanical Garden.

He received his MBA from the University of Chicago in 1972 and his B.S. in 1967 from St. Louis University, where he is a member of the board of trustees. He founded and serves as the president of the Show-Me Institute, a public policy research organization based in St. Louis.

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