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November 2012
  Fama: The Best Advice I Ever Got

August 2012
  Does the Fed Control Interest Rates?

June 2012
  Fama: Do Active Managers Earn Their Fees?
  Fama: Why Small and Value Stocks Outperform

May 2012
  Fama: Is Warren Buffett Lucky or Skilled?
  Financial Times Interview
  Volatility and Premiums

February 2012
  Fama on EconTalk Podcast

January 2012
  Q&A: Are Stock Returns Normally Distributed?
  Q&A: Small Stocks for the Long Run
  Q&A: Do Low-Volatility Strategies Produce High Returns?
  Q&A: Seeking the Inefficient Asset Class

November 2011
  Efficient Markets, Economic Growth, and Market Volatility

June 2011
  Q&A: Why Use Book Value to Sort Stocks?
  Q&A: Cap Weighting or GDP Weighting?
  Q&A: Expected Returns and Socially Responsible Investing
  Q&A: Front Running and Fair Pricing

May 2011
  Home Bias
  Q&A: Liquidity and Stock Returns
  Homemade Dividends
  Q&A: Should Investors Diversify Among Government Bonds?
  How Can Retirees Determine a Sustainable Withdrawal Rate?

April 2011
  Q&A: Beta and Stock Returns
  Diversification by Omission
  Q&A: Bond Funds or Ladders?
  Q&A: Seeking the Optimal Country Weighting Scheme

December 2010
  Principal-Guaranteed Products: Paying Others to Bear Risk
  Hedging Inflation: Do TIPS Beat T-Bills?
  Should Investors Fear the "New Normal"?

November 2010
  'Too Big to Fail' Distorts System
  Q&A: What Role for Commodities?

October 2010
  Distinguished Speaker Series: Eugene Fama and David Booth
  Q&A: When Does Active Management Shine?
  Q&A: Market Timing with Moving Averages
  Future of Money Management

September 2010
  Q&A: A "Stock Picker's Market"?
  Q&A: Commodity Exposure through Stocks?
  Q&A: High Frequency Trading and the "Flash Crash"

August 2010
  Q&A: Dividends: Is Bigger Better?

July 2010
  Q&A: Are Treasury Bonds Risk-Free?
  Q&A: Are Chief Executives Overpaid?
  Q&A: The Limits of Arbitrage
  Q&A: Public vs. Private Equity

June 2010
  Q&A: Reducing Risk with Options
  The Squam Lake Group
  Father of Modern Finance Weighs In

April 2010
  Q&A: Is Insider Trading Beneficial?
  Q&A: Semi-Variance: A Better Risk Measure?
  Q&A: Does Gold Belong in My Portfolio?

March 2010
  My Life in Finance

February 2010
  Q&A: Bankrupt Firms: Who's Buying?
  Q&A: Do Fundamentals Tell Us When Stocks Are Overpriced?
  Q&A: Can Investors Profit from Momentum?

January 2010
  Q&A: Seeking the Best Inflation Hedge

December 2009
  Q&A: Are Stocks Safer in the Long Run?
  Q&A: Financial Innovation -- A Blessing or a Curse?

November 2009
  Luck versus Skill in Mutual Fund Performance
  Q&A: Who Should Hold Long Term Bonds?
  Q&A: Does Your Optimizer Need a Tune-Up?
  Q&A: Is Market Efficiency the Culprit?

October 2009
  Fama Lecture: Masters of Finance

September 2009
  Q&A: What if Everybody Indexed?
  Q&A: Bear Markets and Monte Carlo Analysis
  Eugene F. Fama: Economist

August 2009
  Q&A: NASDAQ at 5,000: A Mistake?
  Q&A: Is There a "New Normal"?
  Q&A: Bonds for the Long Run?
  Q&A: Protecting Purchasing Power
  Q&A: Hedge Funds and Securities Prices
  Fama on Market Efficiency in a Volatile Market
  Robert Lucas in The Economist
  Q&A: The Equity Premium over Long Periods
  Q&A: Do Index Funds Contribute to Mispricing?
  Cliff Asness on the U.S. Healthcare Bill

July 2009
  Q&A: Narrowly Held Risks
  Q&A: Costs of Corporate Acquisition
  Should Stockholders Sit This One Out?
  Did Diversification Fail When We Needed It Most?

June 2009
  Luck versus Skill in Mutual Fund Performance
  Dollar Cost Averaging
  Identifying Superior Managers
  The Future of Markets
  Is This a Good Time for Active Investing?
  More Sellers than Buyers?
  Why Active Investing Is a Negative Sum Game

May 2009
  How Unusual Was the Stock Market of 2008?

April 2009
  Q&A: Equity Premium Puzzle
  Q&A: Bias in the EMH?
  Q&A: Signs of a Recovery?
  Q&A: How True is "Too Big to Fail?"
  Q&A: An Optimal Allocation?
  Q&A: Foregoing Future Expected Returns?
  Q&A: Challenging S&P 500 Earnings
  Q&A: When Market Timers Succeed
  Q&A: Inverted Yield Curves
  Q&A: Thoughts on Mark-to-Market

March 2009
  Performance of Mutual Funds
  Historical Returns
  Q&A: Confidence in the Bell Curve
  Q&A: Derivatives in an Efficient Market
  Q&A: Diversification's Role Today
  Q&A: The First Global Recession?
  Q&A: Bailout Banks at All Costs?
  Q&A: Capitalism Under Obama
  Q&A: Stock Returns Under Socialism
  Q&A: Hedging Inflation with Bonds
  Q&A: Expected Return and Stimulus Efforts
  Q&A: Expected Return in a Bad Economy

February 2009
  Q&A: Avoid Firms in Trouble?
  Q&A: The Impact of Fiscal Stimulus
  Q&A: Stick with Passive Management?
  Q&A: How Much Longer?

January 2009
  Bailouts and Stimulus Plans - Addendum 1/28/09
  Q&A: Securities Lending
  Q&A: Deflation Hedge
  Q&A: Factor Correlations
  Q&A: Equilibrium During a Downturn?
  Q&A: Global Correlations
  Q&A: Recessions
  Bailouts and Stimulus Plans - Addendum 1/16/09
  Bailouts and Stimulus Plans
  Economist Podcasts
  Government Equity Capital for Financial Firms

December 2008
  Q&A: Regulation
  Q&A: Market Turmoil
  Working Papers
  Q&A: The Value of Historical Data
  Q&A: T-bills Shift
  Q&A: Timing Volatility
  Q&A: Gold as a Haven?
  The Becker-Posner Blog
  Q&A: Recent Deleveraging
  Q&A: Three-Factor Model and Recent Returns
  Q&A: Prediction in Valuations?
  Q&A: Defined Benefit Dilemma
  Q&A: Book Value
  IGM Website

ABOUT FAMA AND FRENCH
Eugene F. Fama
The Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Kenneth R. French
The Roth Family Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College
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