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Title: Portfolio Selection: Efficient Diversification of Investments by Harry M. Markowitz ISBN: 0-300-01372-8 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 1971 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A brilliant intellectual feat
Comment: While Markowitz is a name well-known in economics (joint winner of the Nobel Proze in 1990) and the investment industry, it is known hardly at all among the public. Perhaps this is the inevitable fate of a man well ahead of his time: Markowitz's work on the relationship of risk and return is truly one of the staggering intellectual achievements of modern economics, and has a great practical impact on people's economic welfare. This volume recapitulates his argument that risk is what drives return, rather than being (as was thought by earlier generations of money managers) merely an unfortunate by-product of the search for higher returns, that the portfolio dominates its constituent assets, and that the way to minimise risk for a given level of expected return is to minimise the covariance of returns of the assets within that portfolio using a quadratic programming algorithm. This is brilliant, seminal stuff, written with a liveliness usually lacking in economic texts.
Rating: 4
Summary: The original classic
Comment: This is a reprint of the text that first considered risk along with return in portfolio management! Nobel-prize winner Harry Markowitz explains the theory upon which modern portfolio theory is based in minimal mathematical terms. Of course there has been much subsequent academic research in portfolio theory (much of which is contained in an included bibliography up to 1970), but this book is an outstanding starting point for anyone interested in the efficient management of financial portfolios
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Title: Mean-Variance Analysis in Portfolio Choice and Capital Markets by Harry M. Markowitz, G. Peter Todd, William F. Sharpe ISBN: 1883249759 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $69.95 |
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Title: The Intelligent Asset Allocator: How to Build Your Portfolio to Maximize Returns and Minimize Risk by William J. Bernstein ISBN: 0071362363 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 22 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Modern Portfolio Theory and Investment Analysis by Edwin J. Elton, Martin J. Gruber, Stephen J. Brown, William N. Goetzmann ISBN: 0471238546 Publisher: Wiley Text Books Pub. Date: 26 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $101.95 |
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Title: Advanced modelling in finance using Excel and VBA by Mary Jackson, Mike Staunton ISBN: 0471499226 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 30 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Portfolio Theory and Capital Markets by William F. Sharpe ISBN: 0070564876 Publisher: McGraw Hill College Div Pub. Date: December, 1970 List Price(USD): $56.20 |
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