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Harry Max Markowitz
(August 24, 1927 ? June 22, 2023) was an
American
economist of
Jewish
descent. He received the 1989
John von Neumann Theory Prize
and the 1990
Nobel Prize in Economics
.
Markowitz was born on August 24, 1927 in
Chicago
,
Illinois
.
[1]
He studied at the
University of Chicago
.
Markowitz was a professor of finance at the
Rady School of Management
at the
University of California, San Diego
(UCSD). He is best known for his pioneering work in
Modern Portfolio Theory
, studying the effects of asset
risk
,
return
,
correlation
and
diversification
on probable investment portfolio returns.
Markowitz won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1990.
Markowitz died from pneumonia and sepsis, in
San Diego, California
, on June 22, 2023, at the age of 95.
[2]
- An Hour with Harry Markowitz: Interviewed by Mark Hebner
- The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1990
- Autobiography
[
permanent dead link
]
, The Nobel Prizes 1990, Editor Tore Frangsmyr, [Nobel Foundation], Stockholm, 1991
- Banquet Speech
, December 10, 1990
- Nobel Prize Lecture: Foundations of Portfolio Theory
, December 7, 1990 (
PDF format
Archived
2013-01-16 at the
Wayback Machine
)
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