Talk:Modern portfolio theory

From Citizendium
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This article is developing and not approved.
 Main Article
 Discussion
Related Articles  [?]
Bibliography  [?]
External Links  [?]
Citable Version  [?]
 
To learn how to update the categories for this article, see here. To update categories, edit the metadata template.
 Definition:  Theory on how risk-averse investors can construct portfolios to optimize or maximize expected return based on a given level of market risk, emphasizing that risk is an inherent part of higher reward. [d] [e]
Checklist and Archives
 Workgroup category:  Economics [Editors asked to check categories]
 Talk Archive:  none  English language variant:  British English

I have a page on my web site that discusses portfolio theory in the context of financial planning. [1] Per the policy against self promotion, if someone thinks it worthy, add it to the further reading links section. Jim

I suggest that this article should be extended to include the work of Harry Markowitz on the importance of covariance among assets, and should include references to his work on the subject and that of James Tobin - although I suggest that the Capital Assets Pricing Model should be the subject of a separate article with a link from this article. Nick Gardner 05:27, 28 February 2008 (CST) (I should explain that I am trying to draft an article on Financial economics and that I have, for the time being, included a link to this article. However the summary of modern portfolio theory in my article is wider in scope than this article, so unless this article is to be extended, the existing link would serve little purpose) Nick Gardner 04:27, 29 February 2008 (CST)

Retrieved from "https://citizendium.org/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:Modern_portfolio_theory&oldid=24512"