Portfolio Selection

Efficient Diversification of Investments
2. Revised Auflage 1991
ISBN: 978-1-55786-108-5
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 733 g

This is a classic book, representing the first major breakthrough in the field of modern financial theory. In effect, it created the mathematics of portfolio selection in a model which has turned out to be the indispensable building block from which the theory of the demand for risky securities is constructed.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Markowitz, Harry M

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.

Part I: Introduction and Illustrations:.

1. Introduction.

2. Illustrative Portfolio Analysis.

Part II: Relationships Between Securities and Portfolios:.

3. Averages and Expected Values.

4. Standard Deviations and Variances.

5. Investment in Large Numbers of Securities.

6. Return in the Long Run.

Part III: Efficient Portfolios:.

7. Geometric Analysis of Efficient Sets.

8. Derivation of E, V Efficient Portfolios.

9. The Semi-Variance.

Part IV: Rational Choice Under Uncertainty.

10. The Expected Utility Maxim.

11. Utility Analysis Over Time.

12. Probability Beliefs.

13. Applications to Portfolio Selection.

Bibliography.

Addendum.

Appendix A: The Computation of Efficient Sets.

B: A Simplex Method for the Portfolio Selection Problem.

C: Alternative Axiom Systems for Expected Utility.

Index.

Part V: Notes on Previous Chapters.

Note on Chapter IV.

Note on Chapter V.

Note on Chapter VI.

Note on Chapter VII.

Note on Chapter VIII and Appendix A.

Note on Chapter IX.

Note on Part IV and Appendix C.

Appendix: Personal Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Markowitz has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics 1990.