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Some argue that the finance world can be broken down into two parts, BM and PM (before and post Markowitz). In 1952, Harry Markowitz, a 24-year-old graduate student at the University of Chicago, published a short article titled “Portfolio Selection” in the seventh volume of the Journal of Finance that revolutionized personal finance and portfolio theory.168
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Read, C. (2012). The Theory of an Efficient Portfolio. In: The Portfolio Theorists. Great Minds in Finance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230362307_20
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