Burton Malkiel

• Alive and Kicking

  By James Picerno  |  November 1, 2007

  Beta's been declared dead for so long, by so many, that it's tempting to dismiss the risk metric as a museum piece. Yes, it's hotly...

• Foreign Affairs

  By Eric Uhlfelder  |  November 1, 2007

  In the summer of 1992 George Soros saw an unusual opportunity in the then rarified world of currency trading. A dozen years earlier, the European...

• Volatility Vortex

  By Patrick Chitwood  |  June 1, 2007

  The popularity of the standard deviation in investing dates back to 1973 and the publication of Burton Malkiel's legendary book, A Random Walk Down Wall...

• Malkiel Speaks

  By James Picerno  |  May 1, 2007

  Endorsing indexing required something of a leap of faith (and perhaps a bit of ego) in the days when Nixon was in the White House,...

• Random Walk Author Talks the Indexing Talk

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  July 1, 2006

  Burton Malkiel, Ph.D., wrote the first edition of the ever-popular book A Random Walk Down Wall Street in 1973. The Princeton University economics professor and...