Portfolio Theory and Capital Markets - Hardcover

Sharpe, William F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0070564876 ISBN 13: 9780070564879

Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education, 1970

Synopsis

William Sharpe's influential Portfolio Theory and Capital Management is as relevant today as when it was first published in 1970. McGraw-Hill is proud to reintroduce tiffs hard-to-Find classic in its original edition. Dr. Sharpe's groundbreaking approach to the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) laid tile foundation for today's most important investment tools and theories, gave the investment world the stillvital Sharpe Ratio -- and made him the co-recipient of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Economics!A new foreword helps place Dr. Sharpe's synthesis of portfolio and capital markets theories into today's financial environment, while his rules for the intelligent selection of investments tinder conditions of risk remain as fresh today as in 1970. Serious investors and students of finance will respect its history ... as they reabsorb its timeless lessons.

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Review:

"Thirty years ago, Portfolio Theory and Capital Markets laid the groundwork for today's investment standards...Sharpe has written a new foreword that reintroduces this essential book--and places its lessons in meaningful context for modern investors throughout the world."

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education
• Publication date: 1970
• ISBN 10: 0070564876
• ISBN 13: 9780070564879
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352