Stay Calm: A Conversation with David Booth
Friends of the LBJ Library | Dec 9, 2026 6:30PM - 8:30PM
This special program is open to Friends of the LBJ Library at the Fellow level and above. Please visit the link below for more information about the Friends membership program and programming access.
Join us for a conversation with David Booth, one of the pioneers of index investing and the founder of factor investing, as he discusses his successful career and the science of how markets actually work.
Following the program, please join us for a cocktail reception.
About the speaker
From his first sales experience selling shoes as a teenager in Lawrence, Kansas, to working on the team that launched the first index portfolio, to pioneering what would come to be known as factor investing, David Booth didn’t just witness the financial revolution—he helped create it. For five decades, he has bridged the worlds of academic theory and practical investing, collaborating with Nobel laureates to build Dimensional Fund Advisors into a $1 trillion global firm. Along the way, he helped democratize investing by advocating for a transparent, evidence-based approach that has helped millions of investors. Through his visionary application of financial theory to real-world investing, Booth has established himself as one of the most influential figures in investing—an outsider who challenged Wall Street’s conventional wisdom and won.
About the Book
For more than 50 years, David Booth has been at the center of a monumental transformation in personal finance. As founder of Dimensional Fund Advisors, Booth has worked alongside Nobel laureates Gene Fama, Merton Miller, Myron Scholes, and Robert Merton, helping to transform investing from a game of speculation into a discipline grounded in evidence, diversification, and long-term thinking. In Stay Calm, he shares the lessons, mindset, and stories behind that revolution—and shows readers how to apply them in their own lives.
In this accessible and engaging book, Booth explains why trying to pick stocks or predict the market’s next move is a losing game, and why trusting markets—not gurus—gives ordinary investors a powerful advantage.
Attendees will receive a complimentary signed, book-plated copy of Stay Calm: Learn to Embrace Uncertainty in Investing and Life while supplies last. The Store at LBJ will sell additional copies onsite.
Location and Parking
The program will be hosted in the 10th floor Atrium of the LBJ Presidential Library, located at 2313 Red River Street. Parking information will be shared with registered attendees.
To RSVP:
This event is by invitation-only. Space is limited and a reservation is required. Please register using the form below.