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Greetings fellow investors and welcome to The Perfect Portfolio Investing Blog. I’m a finance professor at the Ivey Business School at Western University, in Canada, where I’ve been teaching finance and investments, and researching about stocks and investing for over thirty years. I have a PhD in finance from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, and I have a Chartered Financial Analyst designation. I’ve severed on foundations, endowments, and pension boards; I have a consulting company; and I’ve provided expert witness testimony about investments, in federal court. And I enjoy writing about investing.

Most recently, I’ve co-authored (with Andrew Lo at MIT’s Sloan School of Management) In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: The Stories, Voices, and Key Insights of the Pioneers Who Shaped the Way We Invest, Princeton University Press. The culmination of a decade-long journey, we review the intellectual history and evolution of portfolio management by highlighting and explaining the key contributions of some of its most significant researchers over the past seventy years — the era known as modern portfolio theory. We interviewed ten prominent iconic figures and thought leaders in the industry — Harry Markowitz, Bill Sharpe, Gene Fama, Jack Bogle, Myron Scholes, Bob Merton, Marty Leibowitz, Bob…