Harry Markowitz found a free lunch in finance
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.
Markowitz, a titan of finance who won the 1990 Nobel prize in economics, died last month. He showed, in a mathematically rigorous way, that diversification could bring higher returns without higher risk.
Alex Scaggs joins Ethan to explain how Markowitz’s work led to a way of thinking that has become ubiquitous in modern finance (and that has spawned legions of haters).
Also, we go short economic forecasting and long Beyonce.
Links:
- Read Alex Scaggs’s Markowitz obit in the FT.
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Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com
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