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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. Markowitz ...

Don’t put all your eggs in one basket” is sound advice, but Harry Markowitz showed that investing is more nuanced than that.

Harry Markowitz spent his life trying to prove investors could get a free lunch. He invented Modern Portfolio Theory in 1952.

For stock market investors, 1952 was a watershed year. University of Chicago economic student Harry Markowitz published his doctoral thesis, which would make up the foundation for his breakthrough ...

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 ...