With the publication of his simply titled dissertation, "Portfolio Selection," 55 years ago, Harry Markowitz, a doctoral candidate in economics at the University of Chicago, presented the investment ...

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Harry Markowitz, who won the Nobel in economic science in 1990 for his work on portfolio theory and the relationship between risk and reward, died last week at the age of 95. He ...

(Bloomberg) — Harry Markowitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist who redefined money management by showing that diversification could reduce investment risk while maximizing returns, has died. He was 95 ...

He overturned the traditional approach to buying stocks by examining the relationship between risk and reward. By Robert D. Hershey Jr. Harry M. Markowitz, an economist who launched a revolution in ...

Nobel laureate Harry M. Markowitz, the economist whose work in modern portfolio theory gave birth to the field of quantitative finance, has died at age 95. Mr. Markowitz, who died June 22, won the ...