Rex Sinquefield

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Rex Sinquefield is the co-founder and co-chairman of Dimensional Fund Advisors. 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 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. from St. Louis University, where he is a member of the board of trustees. He serves as the president of the Show-Me Institute, a public policy research organization based in Saint Louis.

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  • An article on Sinquefield's receipt of the 1999 Distinguished Entrepreneurial Alumni award from the University of Chicago graduate school of business.
  • Home page of the Show-Me Institute, where Sinquefield now serves as president.
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