In choppy market waters, a strong anchor and a sharp sail can make all the difference. While core investments provide ...

As a new administration takes the reins in Washington, economic and financial market conditions continue to be in a perpetual ...

Harry Markowitz pioneered modern quantitative analysis with his introduction of Modern Portfolio Theory in the early 1950s. Alpha measures how much an investment outperforms or underperforms a ...

THE saying – diversification is the only free lunch in investing – holds a lot of truth. Read more at The Business Times.

Background: The age-old wisdom of diversificationThe idea of not putting all your eggs in one basket has guided risk management for centuries. Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice illustrates this ...

If you're an investor, then you owe a word of gratitude to the late Nobel Prize laureate Harry Markowitz and his work on Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT). The development and subsequent ...

Let’s discuss. Modern Portfolio Theory was created by Harry Markowitz, a Nobel Laureate, and first published in his paper “Portfolio Selection” in the 1952 Journal of Finance. Markowitz summ ...