Tune Out the Noise: A 90-Minute Reset

To say there is some noise in the world these days is a massive understatement. It’s everywhere—at the mailbox with your neighbor, at the gym with a friend, during a casual round of golf, or over dinner with your spouse. Then there’s the constant stream of news, podcasts, YouTube videos, and social media feeds, all demanding our attention and stoking the fires of our emotions.

The result? An overwhelming barrage of information that’s hard to process, much less make sense of.

So, what are we to do?

We have a suggestion. If you can carve out 90 minutes—perhaps in place of your usual media intake—we encourage you to watch Tune Out the Noise, a compelling documentary by Dimensional Fund Advisors, a valued resource in FVIM’s investment approach. This film not only offers a moment to step back from the chaos but also a chance to rethink how you view investing and the markets. It tells the story of how finance became a science and how that science challenged the status quo of Wall Street.

At FVIM, our investment philosophy is rooted in science and decades of evidence-based research beginning with Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT), introduced by Harry Markowitz in the 1950s. MPT revealed that investors could build more efficient portfolios by combining different types of assets, not merely to pursue returns, but to better balance risk and reward. It laid the groundwork for diversified, long-term investment strategies that still guide us today.

➡️ Want to learn more about Markowitz’s contributions? Read this resource.

Academic pioneers like Eugene Fama, Robert Merton, and Myron Scholes (all Nobel Prize winners) have expanded on these principles, reshaping how we understand capital markets. One of the most influential breakthroughs came from Fama’s 1970 work on the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH)—the theory that market prices reflect all publicly available information. Rather than trying to outguess the market, investors are better served by trusting in its pricing power and focusing on what they can control: asset allocation, diversification, discipline, and cost efficiency.

This film is more than a documentary—it’s an invitation to step away from the noise and reconnect with a grounded, rational, and research-driven approach to investing.

It’s an approach we at FVIM are proud to stand behind.

Enjoy!

Tune Out The Noise | Dimensional