Privacy Policy/Terms of Service/Disclaimer

PRIVACY POLICY NOTICE

Our Promise to You
As a client of Journey Financial Planners, you share personal and financial information with us. Your privacy is important to us, and we are dedicated to safeguarding your personal and financial information.

Information Provided by Clients
In the normal course of doing business, we typically obtain the following non-public personal information about our clients:

• Personal information regarding our clients' identity such as name, address and Social Security number
• Information regarding securities transactions effected by us
• Client financial information such as net worth, assets, income, bank account information, and account balances

How We Manage and Protect Your Personal Information
We do not sell information about current or former clients to third parties, nor is it our practice to disclose such information to third parties unless requested or permitted to do so by a client or client representative or, if necessary, in order to process a transaction, service an account or as permitted by law. Additionally, we may share information with outside companies that perform administrative services for us. However, our contractual arrangements with these service providers require them to treat your information as confidential.

We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your personal information. Our privacy policy restricts the use of client information and requires that it be held in strict confidence, except in some internal circumstances.

Client Notifications
We are required by law to annually provide a notice describing our privacy policy. In addition, we will inform you promptly if there are changes to our policy.

Please do not hesitate to contact us with questions about this notice.

TERMS OF SERVICE

Agreement between User and Journey Financial Planners, LLC
Welcome to www.journeyfinancialplanners.com.
Journey Financial Planners (the "Website") is owned and operated by Journey Financial Planners, LLC ("Journey Financial Planners"). Journey Financial Planners is dedicated to providing visitors to Journey Financial Planners with a highly useful experience, while at the same time protecting our rights and the rights of our users. We have developed these Terms of Service to govern your use of Journey Financial Planners.com, and we, along with our affiliates, partners, provide content and services to you subject to the following conditions. Your use of Journey Financial Planners tells us you have read and agreed to these Terms of Service. Please read them carefully. This Terms of Service is a binding contract between you and Journey Financial Planners, regarding your use of Journey Financial Planners.com. If you do not agree with any of these terms, please exit the Website.

Copyright Notices
All contents of this Website are: Copyright © Journey Financial Planners, LLC 747 Main Street Suite 120 Concord, MA, or third-party content providers and are protected by international copyright law. All rights reserved.
All of the information, content, services and software displayed on, transmitted through, or used in connection with the Website, including for example, advertising, directories, guides, articles, opinions, reviews, text, photographs, images, illustrations, audio clips, video, html, source and object code, software, data, and all other matters related to this website, including without limitation, the selection and arrangement of the aforementioned and the "look and feel" of this website (collectively, the "Content"), are protected under applicable copyrights and other proprietary (included but not limited to intellectual property) rights and are the intellectual property of Journey Financial Planners, and its affiliated companies, licensors and suppliers. Journey Financial Planners actively protects its rights to the Content to the fullest extent of the law. The copying, rearrangement, redistribution, modification, use or publication by you, directly or indirectly, of any such matters or any part of the website, except for limited rights of use granted hereunder, is strictly prohibited. You may not use such material except as provided in these Terms of Service.

You may use the Content online and solely for your personal, non-commercial use, and you may download or print a single copy of any portion of the Content for your personal, non-commercial use, provided you do not remove any trademark, copyright or other notice contained in such Content. You may, for example, republish the Content on any Internet, Intranet or Extranet site or incorporate the Content in any database, compilation, archive or cache. You may distribute any of the Content to others, but not for payment or other consideration, and you may not modify, copy, frame, reproduce, sell, publish, transmit, display or otherwise use any portion of the Content without securing the prior written consent of Journey Financial Planners.

Requests to use the Content for any purpose other than as permitted in this paragraph should be directed to info@Journey Financial Planners.com. In certain cases, you may be able to obtain a license to use individual articles that appear on Journey Financial Planners.

Third Party Copyright Notice
Journey Financial Planners contains text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material with approval from several third party content providers ("Third Party Content"). Third Party Content shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium. Neither Third Party Content, nor any portion thereof, may be stored in a computer except for personal or non-commercial use. Neither Journey Financial Planners nor any third party content provider will be held liable for any delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions there from or in the transmission or delivery of all or any part thereof or for any damages arising from any of the foregoing.

Copyright Complaints
Journey Financial Planners respects the intellectual property of others. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement or are aware of any infringing material placed by any third party on Journey Financial Planners.com, please contact us at the address listed below under the heading "Contact Us."

Trademarks
The Content includes logotypes, trademarks and service marks (collectively "Marks") owned by Journey Financial Planners LLC, and Marks owned by other information providers and third parties. For example, Journey Financial Planners is a trademark of Journey Financial Planners, LLC. No Marks may be used in any manner unless approved in advance, in writing by Journey Financial Planners.

Links To, Alteration Of, And Frames Of, Journey Financial Planners
If you operate a web site and wish to link to Journey Financial Planners.com, you may link only to the home page, http://www.Journey Financial Planners.com, and not to any other page or sub-domain of Journey Financial Planners without our express written consent. You may not frame or utilize framing techniques that involve any trademark, logo, copyrighted material or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of any portion of Journey Financial Planners without our express written consent. You may not alter or modify in any way, Journey Financial Planners including but not limited to using any software to suppress or alter the display of Journey Financial Planners.com. In addition, you agree not to decompile, reverse engineer or disassemble any software or other products or processes accessible through Journey Financial Planners.com, not to insert any code or product or manipulate the content of Journey Financial Planners in any way that affects the user's experience, and not to use any data mining, robots, cancelbots, Trojan horse, or any data gathering or extraction method in connection with your use of Journey Financial Planners.com.

Membership and Registration
Certain areas of Journey Financial Planners may require registration or may otherwise ask you to provide information to participate in certain features or access certain content. The decision to provide this information is purely optional, however if you elect not to provide such information, you may not be able to access certain content or features or participate in various areas of Journey Financial Planners.com. You may also provide information to Journey Financial Planners in other contexts, including, for example, in order to register for the newsletter or blog. When you register or become a participant of Journey Financial Planners or provide information to Journey Financial Planners in any other manner, you agree to provide only true, accurate, current and complete information on all registration pages. Using a name other than your own legal name is prohibited (except in those specific areas of Journey Financial Planners that specifically ask for unique, fictitious names, e.g. the blog). You agree that Journey Financial Planners may use the information you provide to us according to the Privacy Policy on our Website.
If you become a participant of Journey Financial Planners.com, you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password, and agree you will not, transfer or assign your participatin or any participant rights. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and for restricting access to your computer so that others may not access Journey Financial Planners using your name in whole or in part. Journey Financial Planners reserves the right to terminate participation and deny access to the Website to any person who violates this Terms of Service.

User-Created Content
By placing material on, or communicating with, Journey Financial Planners.com, including for example communication during registration, communication on any Journey Financial Planners blog etc., you represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content that you provide, that the content is accurate, that it does not violate these Terms of Service, and that it will not cause injury to any person or entity. You grant Journey Financial Planners, its affiliates and related entities, including Journey Financial Planners.com, a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, copy, modify, display, archive, store, distribute, reproduce and create derivative works from all information you provide to us in any public area of Journey Financial Planners.com, in any form, media, software or technology of any kind now existing or developed in the future. Without limiting the generality of the previous sentence, you authorize Journey Financial Planners to include the information you provide in a searchable format that may be accessed by users of Journey Financial Planners web sites. You also grant Journey Financial Planners the right to use your name and any other information about you that you provide in connection with its use and with the reproduction or distribution of such material, and also grant Journey Financial Planners the right to use any material, information, ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques contained in any communication you send to us for any purpose whatsoever, including but not limited to developing, manufacturing and marketing products using such information. All rights in this paragraph are granted without the need for additional compensation of any sort to you.

Please note that Journey Financial Planners does not accept unsolicited materials or ideas for use or publication. Journey Financial Planners is not responsible for the similarity of any of its content or programming in any media to materials or ideas transmitted to Journey Financial Planners.com.

Other Specifics About Interactive Areas (Blog)
Journey Financial Planners blog is provided to give users an interesting and stimulating forum to express their opinions and share their ideas and information. Given the nature of Journey Financial Planners and the volume of messages and postings, Journey Financial Planners cannot and does not monitor all of the material posted or transmitted by users and third party information providers. To protect your safety, please use your best judgment when using these forums. We particularly discourage divulging personal phone numbers and addresses or other information that can be used to identify or locate you. Journey Financial Planners reserves the right to delete, move or edit any communications at any time, for any reason or in its discretion, but has no obligation to review or remove any such content.

Posting Rules
The blog is intended to encourage financial planning and investment management education. We expect people to differ—judgment and opinion are subjective things—and we encourage freedom of speech and a marketplace of ideas. But by using these areas of Journey Financial Planners.com, you are participating in a community that is intended for all our users. Therefore, we reserve the right to remove any content posted on our site at any time for any reason. Decisions as to whether content violates any Posting Rule will be made by Journey Financial Planners in its discretion after we have actual notice of such posting. Without limiting our right to remove content, we have attempted to provide guidelines to those posting content on our Website. When using Journey Financial Planners.com, please do not post material that:

• contains vulgar, profane, abusive or hateful language, epithets or slurs, text or illustrations in poor taste, inflammatory attacks of a personal, racial or religious nature, or expressions of bigotry, racism, discrimination or hate.
• is defamatory, threatening, disparaging, grossly inflammatory, false, misleading, deceptive, fraudulent, inaccurate, unfair, contains gross exaggeration or unsubstantiated claims, violates the privacy rights of any third party, is unreasonably harmful or offensive to any individual or community, contains any actionable statement, or tends to mislead or reflect unfairly on any other person, business or entity.
• violates any right of Journey Financial Planners or any third party.
• discriminates on the grounds of race, religion, national origin, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation or disability, or refers to such matters in any manner prohibited by law.
• violates any municipal, state or federal law, rule, regulation or ordinance, or attempts to encourage such an evasion or violation.
• unfairly interferes with any third party's uninterrupted use and enjoyment of Journey Financial Planners.com.
• advertises, promotes or offers to trade any goods or services.
• uploads copyrighted or other proprietary material of any kind on Journey Financial Planners without the express permission of the owner of that material.
• uses or attempts to use another's account, password, service or system except as expressly permitted by the Terms of Service.
• includes images, photos, articles or other content that constitutes, promotes or encourages illegal acts, violation of any right of any individual or entity, violation of any local, state, national or international law, rule, guideline or regulation, or otherwise creates liability.
• uploads or transmits viruses or other harmful, disruptive or destructive files.
• disrupts, interferes with, or otherwise harms or violates the security of Journey Financial Planners.com, or any services, system resources, accounts, passwords, servers or networks connected to or accessible through Journey Financial Planners or affiliated or linked sites.
• "flames" any individual or entity (e.g., sends repeated messages related to another user and/or makes derogatory or offensive comments about another individual), or repeats prior posting of the same message under multiple threads or subjects.

A violation of certain of these Posting Rules may be referred to law enforcement authorities. Journey Financial Planners reserves the right to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any law, regulation or governmental request.

Third-Party Content
Journey Financial Planners is a distributor with regard to content supplied by third-party suppliers and Users, therefore, Journey Financial Planners has no more editorial control over such content than a public library, bookstore or newsstand. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers, or other information or content expressed or made available by third parties, including information providers and Users are those of the respective author(s) or distributor(s) and not of Journey Financial Planners.

Communications With Third Parties Through Journey Financial Planners.com
Your dealings or communications through Journey Financial Planners with any party other than Journey Financial Planners are solely between you and that third party. Under no circumstances will Journey Financial Planners be liable for any goods, services, resources or content available through such third party dealings or communications, or for any harm related thereto. Please review carefully that third party's policies and practices and make sure you are comfortable with those policies and practices before you engage in any transaction. Any complaints, concerns or questions you may have relating to materials provided by third parties should be forwarded directly to the third party.

International Users
Journey Financial Planners is controlled, operated and administered by Journey Financial Planners from its offices within the United States. Journey Financial Planners makes no representation that materials or Content available through Journey Financial Planners are appropriate or available for use outside the United States and access to them from territories where their contents are illegal is prohibited. You may not use Journey Financial Planners or export the Content in violation of U.S. export laws and regulations. If you access Journey Financial Planners from a location outside the United States, you are responsible for compliance with all local laws.

E-Mail
Journey Financial Planners respects the privacy of its readers. Please see our privacy policy.

Modification
Journey Financial Planners shall have the right, at its discretion, to change, modify, add or remove terms of this agreement at any time without notice. Changes shall be effective immediately. You agree to review this agreement periodically since subsequent use by you of this site shall constitute your acceptance of any changes. Journey Financial Planners shall have the right at any time to change or discontinue any aspect of Journey Financial Planners.com, including, but not limited to, the community areas, content, hours of availability and equipment needed for access to use. Such changes, modifications, additions or deletions shall be effective immediately upon posting and any subsequent use by you after such posting shall conclusively be deemed to be acceptance by you of such changes, modifications or deletions.

Disclaimer

ALL MATERIALS AND SERVICES IN THIS SITE AND THIRD-PARTY SITES TO WHICH IT LINKS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. THE CONTENT PUBLISHED ON THIS WEB SITE MAY INCLUDE INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. CHANGES ARE PERIODICALLY MADE TO THE INFORMATION HEREIN. JOURNEY FINANCIAL PLANNERS AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS MAY MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR CHANGES IN THIS WEB SITE AT ANY TIME INCLUDING CHANGES TO THESE TERMS OF SERVICE. JOURNEY FINANCIAL PLANNERS AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS AND, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWED BY LAW, DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE REGARDING THE SUITABILITY OF THE INFORMATION; THE ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, COMPLETENESS OR TIMELINESS OF THE CONTENT, SERVICES, PRODUCTS, TEXT, GRAPHICS, LINKS, OR OTHER ITEMS CONTAINED WITHIN THIS SITE, OR THE RESULTS OBTAINED FROM ACCESSING AND USING THIS SITE AND/OR THE CONTENT CONTAINED HEREIN. JOURNEY FINANCIAL PLANNERS DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN THE MATERIALS WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THIS SITE, INCLUDING BULLETIN BOARDS OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE, ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. THE USER ASSUMES THE ENTIRE COST OF ALL NECESSARY MAINTENANCE, REPAIR OR CORRECTION OF THE USERS COMPUTER AND OTHER EQUIPMENT.

Use Of This Website Is At Your Own Risk.
This Website may contain advice, opinions, and statements of various information providers and content providers. Journey Financial Planners does not represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any advice, opinion, statement or other information provided by any information provider or content provider, or any user of this site or other person or entity. Reliance upon any such opinion, advice, statement, or other information shall also be at your own risk. Neither Journey Financial Planners nor its affiliates, nor any of their respective agents, employees, information providers or content providers shall be liable to any User or anyone else for any inaccuracy, error, omission, interruption, timeliness, completeness, deletion, defect, failure of performance, computer virus, communication line failure, alteration of, or use of any content herein, regardless of cause, or for any damages resulting there from.

Neither Journey Financial Planners, its affiliates, information providers or content providers shall have any liability for investment decisions based upon, or the results obtained from, the information provided. Neither Journey Financial Planners, its affiliates, information providers or content providers guarantee or warrant the timeliness, sequence, accuracy, or completeness of any such information. Nothing contained in this Website is intended to be, nor shall it be construed as, investment advice.
Indemnity/Limitation of Liability

Under no circumstances, including, but not limited to, negligence, shall Journey Financial Planners, or its affiliates be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use, the Content, unauthorized access to or alteration of your transmissions or data, the Content or any errors or omissions in the Content, even if advised of the possibility of such damages. You specifically acknowledge and agree that Journey Financial Planners is not liable for any conduct of any User.

AS A CONDITION OF USE OF THIS WEBSITE, YOU AGREE TO INDEMNIFY, DEFEND AND HOLD HARMLESS, JOURNEY FINANCIAL PLANNERS AND ITS SUPPLIERS, EACH OF THEIR PARENT AND AFFILIATED COMPANIES, AND EACH OF THEIR RESPECTIVE PARTNERS, SUPPLIERS, LICENSORS, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, SHAREHOLDERS, EMPLOYEES, REPRESENTATIVES, CONTRACTORS AND AGENTS, FROM ANY AND ALL CLAIMS (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, CLAIMS FOR DEFAMATION, TRADE DISPARAGEMENT, PRIVACY AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INFRINGEMENT) AND DAMAGES (INCLUDING ATTORNEYS' FEES AND COURT COSTS) ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO ANY ALLEGATION REGARDING: (A) YOUR USE OF JOURNEY FINANCIAL PLANNERS.COM; (B) JOURNEY FINANCIAL PLANNERS.COM'S USE OF ANY CONTENT OR INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE, AS LONG AS OUR USE IS NOT INCONSISTENT WITH THIS AGREEMENT; (C) INFORMATION OR MATERIAL POSTED OR TRANSMITTED THROUGH YOUR MEMBERSHIP ACCOUNT, EVEN IF NOT POSTED BY YOU; AND, (D) ANY VIOLATION OF THESE TERMS OF SERVICE BY YOU. If you are dissatisfied with any Journey Financial Planners material, or with any of Journey Financial Planners' terms and conditions, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using the Journey Financial Planners Website.

General
This Agreement shall be deemed to include all other notices, policies, disclaimers, and other terms contained in this Website; provided, however, that in the event of a conflict between such other terms and the terms of this Agreement, the terms of this Agreement shall control.

This Agreement has been made in and shall be construed and enforced in accordance with Massachusetts law. Any action to enforce this agreement shall be brought in the federal or state courts located in Massachusetts. If any provision is deemed to be unlawful or unenforceable, that shall not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions. Any failure of Journey Financial Planners to enforce or exercise any provision of this Agreement or related right shall not constitute a waiver of that right or provision. The section titles used in this Agreement are purely for convenience and carry with them no legal or contractual effect. In the event of termination of this Agreement for any reason, you agree that the following provisions will survive: the provisions regarding the limitations on your use of Content, the license(s) you have granted to Journey Financial Planners.com, and all other provisions for which survival is equitable or appropriate.

Service Contact
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DISCLAIMER

Journey Financial Partners, LLC, is a Massachusetts registered investment adviser. The firm only transacts business in states where it is properly registered, or excluded or exempted from registration requirements. Past performance may not be indicative of future results. Therefore, no current or prospective client should assume that the future performance of any specific investment, investment strategy, or product made reference to directly or indirectly on the Website, will be profitable or equal to any performance levels indicated. Information throughout our site and materials, whether stock quotes, charts, articles, or any other statements regarding market or other financial information, is obtained from sources which we, and our suppliers believe reliable, but we do not warrant or guarantee the timeliness or accuracy of this information. Neither our information providers nor shall we be liable for any errors or inaccuracies, regardless of cause, or the lack of timeliness of, or for any delay or interruption in the transmission thereof to the user.

The information contained in the Journey Financial Planners web site is intended for general informational purposes only, and should not be construed as a substitute for consultation with for specific financial planning or investment advice. The information on this web site may not be up to date, is not intended as financial advice and is not intended to, nor does it create a financial planning/investment advisor-client relationship. Furthermore, contact with Journey Financial Planners via e-mail, the website, the blog or the newsletter does not establish an financial planning/investment advisor-client relationship. No confidential information should be sent via e-mail about a confidential matter without first establishing contact with Journey Financial Planners and determining if Journey Financial Planners is able to work with an individual, family or a firm.

This site and all the information contained in the site are the property of Journey Financial Planners, or OBS or Dimensional Funds and are protected under United States copyright laws.

The information in this site may be considered advertising under the Rules of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

Fee Disclosure
Journey Financial Planners charges financial planning and or an investment management fee for its services. Journey may use the services of sub-advisors and they charge investment management and reporting fees . Fees are described on this website and are detailed in the ADVPart II which will be provided upon request.

Risk Factors
As with any investment philosophy, there is a possibility of profitability as well as loss. Higher potential return generally involves greater risk, short term volatility is not uncommon when investing in various types of funds, including but not limited to: sector, emerging markets, small & mid-cap funds. Risks for emerging markets include risks relating to the relatively smaller size and lesser liquidity of these markets, high inflation rates and adverse political developments. Risks for investing in international equity include foreign currency risk, as well as fluctuation due to economic or political actions of foreign governments and/or less regulated or liquid markets. Risks for smaller companies include business risks, significant stock price fluctuation and illiquidity. Real estate investments are affected by changes in real estate values, property taxes, interest rates and regulatory requirements and are subject to heavy reliance on cash flow and concentration in a small number of projects or single sector. Investing in higher-yielding, lower-rated bonds has a greater risk of price fluctuation and loss of principal income than U.S. government securities, such as U.S. Treasury bonds and bills. Treasuries and government securities are guaranteed by the government for repayment of principal and interest if held to maturity. Investors should carefully assess the risks associated with an investment in the fund. International fund unit values and returns will fluctuate with market conditions, currencies, and economic and political climates where investments are made.

Diversification
Diversification seeks to improve performance by spreading investment dollars into various asset classes to add balance to your portfolio. Using this methodology, however, does not guarantee a profit or protection from loss in a declining market. Journey Financial Planners does not guarantee performance for any investment recommendation. As with any investment strategy there is a possibility of profitability as well as loss.

Index Definitions
Investors cannot invest directly in an index. Indexes have no fees. Historical performance results for investment indexes generally do not reflect the deduction of transaction and/or custodial charges or the deduction of an investment management fee; the incurrence of which would have the effect of decreasing historical performance results. Actual performance for client accounts may differ materially from the indexes shown. All data provided by Dimensional Fund Advisors. Data is from sources believed to be reliable but cannot be guaranteed.

S&P 500 Index: Index of 500 large-cap companies traded on major U.S. exchanges, as provided by DFA from Standard & Poor's Index Services Group. CRSP 6-10 Index: Deciles 6-10 from the Center for Research in Security Prices at the University of Chicago. NYSE (plus AMEX equivalents since July 1962 and NASDAQ equivalents since 1973). F/F U.S. Large Value Index: Provided by Fama/French from CRSP securities data. Simulated strategy of the upper-half market cap, upper 30% book-to-market NYSE (plus AMEX equivalents since July 1962 and NASDAQ equivalents since 1973), excluding utilities. F/F U.S. Large Growth Index: Provided by Fama/French from CRSP securities data. Simulated strategy of the upper-half market cap, lower 30% book-to-market NYSE (plus AMEX equivalents since July 1962 and NASDAQ equivalents since 1973), excluding utilities. F/F U.S. Small Value Index: Provided by Fama/French from CRSP securities data. Simulated strategy of the lower-half market cap, upper 30% book-to-market NYSE (plus AMEX equivalents since July 1962 and NASDAQ equivalents since 1973), excluding utilities. F/F/U.S. Small Growth Index: Provided by Fama/French from CRSP securities data. Simulated strategy of the lower-half market cap, lower 30%book-to-marketNYSE (plus AMEX equivalents since July 1962 and NASDAQ equivalents since 1973), excluding utilities.

Asset Class Disclosure
Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Investors cannot invest directly in an index. Indexes have no fees. Historical performance results for investment indexes generally do not reflect the deduction of transaction and/or custodial charges or the deduction of an investment management fee, the incurrence of which would have the effect of decreasing historical performance results. Actual performance for client accounts may differ materially from the index portfolios. DFA creates mutual funds that attempt to capture the asset classes that these indexes track. The portfolio strategy is to encompass the distinct assets classes by constructing portfolios utilizing the applicable DFA mutual funds. As with any investment strategy, there is a potential for profit as well as the possibility of loss.

Data is from sources believed to be reliable but cannot be guaranteed or warranted. CRSP is the Center for Research in Security Prices located at the University of Chicago.
US Large = S&P 500 Index: Index of 500 large-cap companies traded on major US exchanges, as provided by DFA from Standard & Poor's Index Services Group.
US Large Value = F/F US Large Value Index: Provided by Fama/French from CRSP securities data. Simulated strategy of upper-half market cap, upper 30% book-to-market NYSE (plus AMEX equivalents since July 1962 and NASDAQ equivalents since 1973), excluding utilities.
US Small = CRSP 9-10 Index: Deciles 9-10 NYSE (plus AMEX equivalents since July 1962 and NASDAQ equivalents since 1973). Provided by CRSP.
US Small Value = F/F US Small Value Index: Provided by Fama/French from CRSP securities data. Simulated strategy of lower-half market cap, upper 30% book-to-market NYSE (plus AMEX equivalents since July 1962 and NASDAQ equivalents since 1973), excluding utilities.
REIT = DJ Wilshire REIT Index: Measures U.S. publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trusts. Dow Jones Wilshire index provided by Dow Jones Indexes.
Int'l Large Value = F/F Int'l Value Index: Provided by Fama/French from MSCI securities data. Simulated strategy of MSCI EAFE countries in the upper 30% book-to-market range.
Int'l Small = DFA Int'l Small Cap Simulated Index: 1970-June 1981: 50% UK Small Cap Index and 50% Japan Small Cap Index. July 1981-present: Simulated by DFA from StyleResearch securities data. Includes securities of MSCI EAFE countries in the 10%-1% of ME range; market cap weighted; each country is capped at 50%; rebalanced semi-annually.
Int'l Small Value = DFA Int'l Small Value Simulated Index: Simulated by Dimensional from StyleResearch securities data. Includes securities of MSCI EAFE countries in the top 30% of book-to-market in the 10%-1% ME range: market cap weighted; each country is capped at 50%; rebalanced semiannually.
Emerging Markets = MSCI Emerging Markets Index: Gross dividends reinvested (in US dollars). A free float-adjusted market cap index that is designed to measure equity market performance in the global emerging markets.
Emerging Markets Value = F/F Emerging Value Index: Provided by Fama/French from IFC securities data. Simulated strategy of International Finance Corp. investable universe countries in the upper 30% book-to-market range; companies weighted by float-adjusted market cap; countries weighted by country float-adjusted market cap; rebalanced monthly.
Emerging Markets Small = F/F Emerging Small Cap Index: Provided by Fama/French from IFC securities data. Simulated strategy using International Finance Corp. investable universe countries. Companies in the bottom 30% of aggregate market cap; companies weighted by float-adjusted market cap; countries weighted by country float-adjusted market cap; rebalanced monthly.
1 Year Treas = ML 1-Yr T-Note Index: Merrill Lynch One-Year US Treasury Note Index provided by DFA.
5 Year Treas = 5-Yr T-Note Index: Ibbotson Intermediate Five Year Treasury notes provided by DFA.