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Portfolio Selection

Contents

Introduction and Illustrations

1. Introduction

2. Illustrative Portfolio Analysis

Relationships Between Securities Portfolios

3. Averages and Expected Values

4. Standard Deviations and Variances

5. Investment in Large Numbers of Securities

6. Return in the Long Run

Efficient Portfolios

7. Geometric Analysis of Efficient Sets

8. Derivation of E-V Efficient Portfolios

9. The Semi-Variance

Rational Choice Under Uncertainty

10. The Expected Utility Maxim

11. Utility Analysis over Time

12. Probability beliefs

13. Applications to Portfolio Selection

Harry Markowitz is the father of Portfolio Theory. In 1952, he published his groundbreaking thesis that investors should focus on selecting optimal portfolios as opposed to optimal assets. He expanded that work into a full length book that is Portfolio Selection.

 

Compared to how portfolio theory is treated in modern texts, Markowitz's work seem sometimes crude or unpolished. At the same time, it offers tremendous insights into Markowitz's early thinking and motivation. It is astonishing to realize how different the portfolio theory of today has become from Markowitz's early, highly practical work. For example, Markowitz devotes a full chapter to the subjective nature of probability, an important issue that is lost in more recent textbooks.

For related books, see sections:

Finance - General

Finance - Portfolio Theory

Portfolio Management - General

Portfolio Management - Allocation/Optimization

Risk Management - Market Risk

History - Histories

 

 

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