Harry Markowitz

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A Nobel Memorial Prize winning economist who devised the modern portfolio theory in 1952.  Markowitz's theories emphasized the importance of portfolios, risk, the correlations between securities and diversification. His work changed the way that people invested.
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Prior to Markowitz's theories, emphasis was placed on picking single high-yield stocks without any regard to their effects on portfolios as a whole. Markowitz's portfolio theory would be a large stepping stone towards the creation of the capital asset pricing model.
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'Harry Markowitz'

  • The History Of The Modern Portfolio

    http://www.investopedia.com/articles/07/portfolio-history.asp
    Learn how the writings of John Burr Williams and Harry Markowitz
    led to the creation of the investment portfolio. ...

  • Modern Portfolio Theory: Why It's Still Hip

    http://www.investopedia.com/articles/06/MPT.asp
    ... The Theory One of the most important and influential economic theories dealing with
    finance and investment, MPT was developed by Harry Markowitz and published ...

  • Black Swan Events And Investment

    http://www.investopedia.com/articles/trading/11/black-swan-events-investing.asp
    ... governments. Diversification and Harry Markowitz Gigerenzer considers the Nobel
    Prize winning work of Harry Markowitz on diversification. ...

  • Taking Shots At CAPM

    http://www.investopedia.com/articles/financial-theory/09/capm-error-problem.asp
    ... Mossin. The model is an extension of the earlier work of Harry Markowitz
    on diversification and modern portfolio theory. William ...

  • Strategies For Determining The Market's True Worth

    http://www.investopedia.com/articles/07/true-value.asp
    ... TUTORIAL: Basics of Trading Systems A Brief History of Indexing In 1952, Harry
    Markowitz published his breakthrough work on the modern portfolio theory (MPT ...

  • Nobel Winners Are Economic Prizes

    http://www.investopedia.com/articles/08/nobel-prize.asp
    ... Harry Markowitz is the godfather of modern portfolio theory, having given us the
    same theories of mean-variance portfolio analysis that most money managers ...

  • Financial Concepts: Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) ...

    http://www.investopedia.com/university/concepts/concepts8.asp
    ... Pronounced as though it were spelled "cap-m", this model was originally developed
    in 1952 by Harry Markowitz and fine-tuned over a decade later by others ...

  • Improve Your Investing With Excel

    http://www.investopedia.com/articles/basics/10/using-excel-to-invest.asp
    ... Modern Portfolio Theory Modern portfolio theory (MPT) was developed by Harry
    Markowitz, and introduced in the 1952 Journal of Finance. ...

  • Financial Concepts: The Optimal Portfolio | Investopedia

    http://www.investopedia.com/university/concepts/concepts7.asp
    ... The optimal portfolio was used in 1952 by Harry Markowitz, and it shows us that
    it is possible for different portfolios to have varying levels of risk and ...

  • The Evolution Of Money Management

    http://www.investopedia.com/articles/financialcareers/09/money-management-evolution.asp
    ... Dirty Harry Guns Down an Industry Although it was published in the 1950s, Harry
    Markowitz's portfolio theory came to the forefront in the uncertainty of the ...

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