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i am thrilled to announce the first day of trading of the discipline fund etf on the new york stock exchange under the ticker dscf. discipline funds is a new company that i’ve formed in 2021 to serve as the fund management arm of my investment advisory firm, orcam financial group, llc.we’ve partnered with the nyse and wes gray at alpha architect to make this happen. these are incredible partners. you have no idea. well, maybe you do. anyone who knows the nyse knows, well, it’s the nyse. and anyone who knows wes gray and his team at alpha architect know that they’re the best of the best. wes bleeds integrity, knowledge, and trust. you won’t meet a better person in your life. i am so grateful to have him and his team on our side.i’ve wanted to start a publicly traded fund for a long time, but i wanted it to be perfect. i wanted it to reflect all the things i really believe in. you know my mantra – low fees, diversification, simplicity, tax efficiency and discipline-based investing. the discipline fund is the summation of all these ideas. it’s not perfect. no investment product ever will be. but it fills a void in the asset management space that i believe is significant.my experience as a financial advisor and investment manager over the years has led me to believe that there is a sharp divide between the way investment managers sell asset management products and the way investors experience investment risk across time. most investment products sell the hope of market beating returns in exchange for the guarantee of high fees. this is too often at odds with a sound financial planning-based approach to asset allocation.but you know my approach – i approach everything from the idea that we’re literally allocating our savings. “beating the market” isn’t even a financial goal for most people. so the pursuit of market beating returns ends up creating more conflicts than anything else. and that’s why indexing has become so popular over the last decade. but even the i