Harry Markowitz, who more or less invented modern portfolio theory with his 1952 paper “Portfolio Selection,” talks finance in a new Q&A published by the Journal of Financial Planning. Asked if he thought MPT was fatally wounded from the dramatic market volatility of recent years, he said, No: still alive and kicking. “In fact, it proved itself in the crisis rather than disproved itself,” he asserted.
Daily Archives: April 29, 2010
PONDERING THE POSSIBILITIES OF REBOUND & RETREAT FOR JOBS
Will the Federal Reserve rethink its decision yesterday to keep Fed funds at just above zero after this morning’s news of a fall in new claims for unemployment last week? Not likely. Initial claims slipped by just 11,000. That’s welcome, of course, but if you’ve been following the soap opera with this data series you know that we’ll need to see something more dramatic before the central bank changes its monetary tune of standing pat.