Harry Max Markowitz (born August 24 1927) is an American economist and a recipient of the 1989 John von Neumann Theory Prize and the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.Markowitz is 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.
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