The Investment Professional - Articles by Harry M. Markowitz

Departments
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Executive Director
Providing Continuity and Diversity

Letters to the Editor

Hot Zones
Ignorance Is Not Bliss:
The Dangers of Taking a
Set-It-and-Forget-It Approach
to Target-Date Funds

Hot Zones
The Seat Belt Problem:
A New Approach to Calculating
Risk-Adjusted Returns

Hot Zones
Advance Your Advisory Practice:
Steps for Implementing the RIA Business Model

Worldview
Shifting Sands:
Egypt Delivers Impressive
Results—But With Risks

Education for Practice
The Problem of Loss:
A Primer on Value at Risk

Education for Practice
Calculating Solvency:
Creating a Z-Score Calculator
on Your PDA

Education for Practice
Sounder Grounds for Prediction:
Deriving a Forward-Looking
Equity Market Risk Premium

Careers
The Sustainability Education Gap:
How Business Programs Fail (and Succeed) at Integrating Sustainability

Careers
Landing a Government Job:
Public-Sector Careers Offer
Security in Tough Times

Case Study
Revisiting StoneRidge:
Congress Could Restore
Aiders’ and Abettors’ Liability

Interview
Picking Up the Pieces:
Stephen Harbeck and Irving Picard
on the Lehman and Madoff Cases

Book Reviews
Extending the Canon:
New Titles

Final Analysis
Two Cartoons

Articles by Harry M. Markowitz

Crisis Mode
Modern Porfolio Theory under Pressure

In 1955 Harry M. Markowitz author received a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.
In 1989 he received the von Neumann Theory Prize from the Institute of Management Sciences
and the Operations Research Society of America, and in 1990 he shared the Nobel Prize in
Economics with William Sharpe and Merton Miller. Currently Dr. Markowitz consults and lectures
and is an adjunct professor at the Rady School of Business, University of California at San Diego.