- Entry
- $338.19
- Final
- $363.65 +7.5%
- Target
- —
- Score
- +0.75
I've been researching index investing and kept coming across a category that doesn't get much attention in retail communities: academically-designed indexes with actual investable instruments. Some clarification upfront. Not all academic indexes are investable. Raw Fama-French research portfolios, for example, are purely theoretical constructs. But many have crossed over into real products: Vanguard's VTI and VOO track CRSP indexes, which originated at the University of Chicago Booth in 1960. Dimensional's DFIV and DFSV are live ETFs built directly on Fama-French …
— ORIGINAL POST ·
Why don't more people talk about and invest in indexes built by academics and economists with decades of data behind them ?
· r/investing
· Mar 5, 2026