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The financial community was saddened to hear of the passing of Harry Markowitz on June 22.

Harry Markowitz, who showied that diversification could reduce investment risk while maximizing returns, has died.

Modern portfolio management that drives trillions of dollars around the world owes its theoretical underpinning to work by Nobel-winning economist Harry Markowitz, who passed away last week. Markowitz established the risk-return trade-off: the understanding that risk is shaped more by the composition of a portfolio than by the individual inherent riskiness of its constituents.

Harry M. Markowitz, an economist who launched a revolution in finance, upending traditional thinking about buying stocks and earning the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1990 for his breakthrough, died Thursday in San Diego. in 1952, he published his dissertation, “Portfolio Selection,” which overturned this common-sense approach with what became known as modern portfolio theory, widely referred to as MPT.

His theory in finance transformed investing and earned him the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1990.

Nobel Prize winner Harry Markowitz, creator of the modern portfolio and efficient frontier theories, has died in California aged 95.

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While Harry Markowitz's Modern Portfolio Theory forced a fundamental change in the assumptions of investing, its central insight remains theoretical.

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