This elegance earned a Nobel Prize for several smart professors. You must forgive them, though, for they had a far limited toolkit to work from. Still, this was the original source from which “risk” sprang.
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So one wants his epitaph to read “Here lies John Doe. He beat the S&P 500.” There needs to be an easy-to-understand and easy-to-implement system that properly reflects both your goals and the consequences of failing to meet those goals. Retirement savers want and need a system that represents a better way to set and meet retirement goals.
Despite evidence of its uselessness, it’s been a long goodbye for volatility. Will this bomb unsuspecting plan sponsors?
How a simple pub game destroyed the nearly two generations-old foundation that built a Nobel-Prize winning investment theory.