If you invested in domestic stock funds during the first quarter tied to one of the main U.S. indexes, well done. With price gains of 13.07%, the Standard & Poor’s 500 index had its best first quarter performance since the first quarter of 1998. Other key indexes like the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq climbed 11.15% and 16.49%, respectively. U.S. government notes and bonds also performed relatively well, bucking the trend of when stocks do well, bonds generally don’t follow, and vice versa. The DFA Global Allocation 60/40 Portfolio, a mutual fund which attempts to closely replicate a
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