Harry Markowitz found a free lunch in finance
Markowitz, a titan of finance who won the 1990 Nobel prize in economics, died last month. He showed, in a mathematically rigorous way, that diversification could bring higher returns without higher risk. Alex Scaggs joins Ethan to explain how Markowitz’s work led to a way of thinking that has become ubiquitous in…
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