Time to Update a Classic

Posted on June 18th, 2013 at 4:05 PM

By: Craig L. Israelsen, Ph.D.

One of the classic underpinnings of Modern Portfolio Theory needs an update. 

In the early 1950s, Harry Markowitz's work on mean-variance optimization blazed a new investing frontier...

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