![]() In 2017, its founder and CEO resigned in disgrace after a series of scandals over the company’s harassment of female employees, hard-partying culture, and public disregard of drivers’ concerns. As it became the market leader of the gig economy, joined by peers such as Lyft and Airbnb, the baggage associated with it grew. The company’s bold defiance of the law, and its all-out war against the entrenched taxi industry, defined the company’s narrative for the next decade. In the following years, Uber fought for - and ultimately won - the right to operate in city after city. The app was revolutionary, eliminating the hassles of trying to get a ride in a city where people had long complained there weren’t enough taxis on the streets, and where tech elites were happy to pay 1.5 times a normal cab fare for the convenience. “If you live in San Francisco and you haven’t tried UberCab yet, do it,” reads one of the many glowing articles written about Uber around its debut in summer 2010. The “gig economy” was born, and it seemed so promising. These are moments of the 2010s that broke through the noise. Children died - many of them - but we never could get our act together on guns.īeing on the brink of a new decade provides a certain clarity, even amid so much tectonic change. ![]() Thanks to the seemingly narcotic grip of social media, we stood idly by as disinformation ushered in mistrust of medicine and trust in cruel strongmen. We started talking about systemic inequality, and canceled some objectively terrible men. We shared our first belfies on Instagram. In particular, the past three years have, like so many members of the Trump administration, come and gone at a dizzying pace.īut the true milestones of the 2010s have had long arcs: We took our first Uber rides. So much happened this decade that it birthed a running joke: A month now feels like a year, or maybe a week - it’s hard to say anymore. But many other, perhaps more subtle shifts had made it possible. When Vox’s editors sat down this fall to determine which events of the 2010s have reshaped who we are, we knew one thing for sure: The election of Donald Trump tugged us toward opposite poles. “Dimensional fixed income solutions go beyond indexing and provide flexibility to navigate dynamic market conditions in a cost-effective and transparent way.Part of the Decade Issue of The Highlight, our home for ambitious stories that explain our world. “Fixed income investing has long been inundated with active strategies that try to outguess markets and passive funds that are too rigid to nimbly target higher returns,” said Dave Plecha, Dimensional’s Global Head of Fixed Income. “Just as multi-factor equity investing has gained prominence over the last decade, we believe investors will increasingly look to systematic fixed income solutions, which present reliable and transparent means of accessing bond markets and the flexibility to target higher expected returns,” said Co- CEO and Chief Investment Officer Gerard O’Reilly. ![]() Description: US core fixed income solution pursuing higher expected returns through systematic duration and credit managementĭimensional Short-Duration Fixed Income ETFĭescription: US short-duration core solution pursuing higher expected returns through systematic duration and credit managementĭescription: National municipal bond solution targeting higher expected returns while seeking to provide income that is exempt from federal personal income taxĭimensional Inflation-Protected Securities ETFĭescription: US TIPS solution targeting higher expected returns while providing protection from inflation
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