Rex Sinquefield

Rex Sinquefield
Born	September 7, 1944 Saint Louis, US
Alma mater	St. Louis University University of Chicago
Occupation	President of Show-Me Institute

Rex Sinquefield (born 1944) is an American financial executive, active in Missouri politics. He supports an end to the income tax.

Rex Sinquefield was raised in the Saint Vincent Home for Children in St. Louis, Missouri. and graduated from Bishop DuBourg High School in 1962. He received a business degree from Saint Louis University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago, where he studied under Nobel Prize winner Eugene Fama. In 1973, he helped create the first Standard & Poor's index funds. In 1981, Sinquefield co-founded Dimensional Fund Advisors, which manages more than $310 billion in assets as of September 30, 2013.

Sinquefield founded and serves as the president of the Show-Me Institute, a public policy research organization based in St. Louis that has been labeled libertarian, conservative, and free-market.

Sinquefield is a director of St. Vincent Home for Children in St. Louis, and a life trustee of DePaul University. He serves on the boards of St. Louis University, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, the St. Louis Art Museum, the Missouri Botanical Garden, the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis.

Along with Yale School of Management professor, Roger G. Ibbotson, he authored the book Stocks, Bonds, Bills and Inflation, a study of stock market returns.

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