Hosted by Savina Rizova, PhD and Bob French, CFA
The investing world is awash in “factors” that seek to explain the risk and reward relationships in the financial markets. From Momentum, to Quality, to Value, and Profitability, there are a lot of good stories to tell about these relationships. But how can you know which ones are useful? Through all of the randomness in the financial markets, there is an inherent logic to the relationship between risk and return. And understanding this fundamental relationship can help you tease out which risk factors are (potentially) worth including in your investment portfolio.
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Savina Rizova is Co-Chief Investment Officer and Global Head of Research at Dimensional Fund Advisors LP. She was named Co-CIO in 2024 and serves in that role alongside Gerard O’Reilly, who is also Co-Chief Executive Officer. As Co-CIO, Savina helps lead a team of more than 300 investment professionals across six countries. She is also Chair of the Investment Research Committee and a member of the Investment Committee.
Since joining Dimensional’s Research department in 2004, Savina has worked closely with leading academics, collaborating on research, coauthoring papers, and partnering with Dimensional’s broader investment team to implement robust research in live portfolios. She has helped drive innovation across Dimensional’s product offering, including the development, launch, and rapid growth of Dimensional exchange-traded funds (ETFs), the expanded separately managed accounts (SMAs) offering, and model portfolios. She was instrumental in expanding the Research team to more than 100 specialists in investment research, strategy research, and analytics and data.
Savina was recognized as one of Barron’s 100 Most Influential Women in US Finance in 2022 and 2023. She holds a PhD in finance and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She also earned a BA in economics and mathematics from Dartmouth College, where she was a research assistant to Professor Kenneth French.
Bob is responsible for McLean’s investment strategy. In this role, he ensures that McLean stays at the cutting edge of financial innovation, and helps clients understand how to make the most of their investments within the broader framework of their retirement income plan.
Bob grew up around finance, and he started his career with Dimensional Fund Advisors. While there, he oversaw a data analysis program for financial advisors and helped them think through how to use data to illustrate their client discussions – including when not to use the numbers and focus on the intuition behind the numbers. Following Dimensional Fund Advisors, Bob joined inStream Solutions to help them develop one of the most complete financial planning analytics tools on the market.
Bob joined the McLean team to continue working to understand how investments fit in the broader retirement income paradigm, and to have a chance to work directly with clients to help them develop a more complete understanding of how everything fits together.
Bob grew up in Hanover, NH, and now lives in Portland, ME with his wife and two daughters.
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