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Interview: Harry Markowitz, Nobel Prize in Economics

December 06, 2008 06:21 PM PST

Aired 11/30/08 Harry Markowitz[mAr´kuwits´´] 1927–, American economist, Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago, 1954. In the 1950s he developed a theory of "portfolio choice," which allows investors to analyze risk as well as their expected return. For this work Markowitz, a professor at Baruch College at the City Univ. of New York, shared the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with William Sharpe and Merton Miller.

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It is the only weekly program dedicated to the key market indexes and the financial products that track them.

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Ron DeLegge is the weekly voice of the Index Investing Radio Show. He's been quoted and contributed to financial news articles published by the Associated Press, Business Week, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal. In addition, Ron serves as the Publisher and Editor of ETFguide.com, a popular destination for information on exchange traded funds or ETFs. He is also a contributing writer to a monthly column on ETFs for Research Magazine (ResearchXtra.com), an industry trade journal for financial advisors. He believes the formula for beating Wall Street starts with trusting the indexes, not the money managers that try to beat them and fail.

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