ABOUT INDEX FUNDS ADVISORS, INC.
Index Funds Advisors (IFA) owns and operates this web site. IFA is a fee-only and independent financial advisor and is a Registered Investment Adviser with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. See our public disclosure HERE. IFA currently has eleven financial advisors; Mark Hebner, Gordon Shuler, Dave Mertz, Brendan Connelly, Denise Delaney, Becky Vasquez, Dave Stott, Dave Porter, Brad von Grote, Dan Solin, and Ted Fischer. In addition we have several other employees and independent contractors. Over the last seven years, about 60 talented people have contributed to the IFA project of web sites and related books that teach investors all over the world to avoid active management and invest in a risk-appropriate portfolio of low-cost and tax-efficient index funds.
IFA specializes in matching people with portfolios through the Risk Capacity Survey and 20 Risk Calibrated Index Portfolios. IFA provides investment advice to individuals, trusts, corporations, non-profits, and public and private institutions through brokerage, IRA, 401k, 403b, profit sharing, and all other types of investment accounts offered by our custodians. IFA assist clients in creating and purchasing diversified portfolios of index funds, we currently advising clients to invest in asset class style mutual funds from Dimensional Fund Advisors. We primarily use their funds to create globally diversified portfolios of index funds. DFA funds are only available to individual investors through DFA approved investment advisors. IFA is approved for the purchase of DFA funds, but receives no compensation from DFA or any other investment product it may advise clients to include in their portfolios. IFA clients may select Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., or Fidelity Investments (see SIPC) as custodians for their accounts. If you already have an account with Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. or Fidelity Investments and would like to contract with IFA for financial advice, you can easily assign your account to the IFA Master Account at those firms.
Welcome to investing4engineers.com, the best source for engineers to learn how to invest their hard-earned money for long-term success.
Engineers require and value precision. Inexact opinions or slipshod methods just can’t hold a candle to discipline, optimal form, function and flow. Such inefficient methods will never make the grade and they have absolutely no place in your investments. If you want to have some fun and throw caution to the wind, head to the Vegas casinos, not your local stockbroker.
Here’s the deal: As an engineer, you plot, chart, scrutinize, assemble and monitor every product and process. Did you know that Nobel Prize-winning economists have performed the same type of analysis on the entire history of investing to determine the only method of achieving the desired affect is through the right blend of Index Funds?
Investing4engineers wants you to know the results of world-renown economists and Nobel Prize Winners so you will not fall victim to the come-hither rants of fickle retail stockbrokers, stock pickers and market timers who have absolutely no idea which way stocks are heading, but they’re convinced they can get you where you want to be through active management.
University of Chicago market data representing a century of financial activity proves that markets behave erratically and unpredictably in the short term, but have an uncanny ability to deliver steady returns over a prolonged period of time. Therefore, when you pick the right blend of Index Funds and just stay with them, you have the highest predictability of achieving the desired effect of the stellar returns you want and need for your future.
Interesting Links
American Engineering Association
http://www.aea.org/
www.Engineerjobs.com
www.guru.com
National Engineer Week: Great Information for All Types of Engineers
http://www.eweek.org/site/Engineers/index.shtml
http://www.futurecity.org/
http://www.eweek.org/site/nbm/intro.html
