Paul Samuelson

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  Milevsky’s ‘7 Most Important Equations’ on Retirement Offers 7 Crucial Ideas for Advisors

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  May 1, 2012

  Moshe Milevsky, whose new book will be released in June, has become a rock star on the advisor lecture circuit. Why?

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  Finding Financial Crisis Culprits; Selling Advisors Like iPhones: May Research—Slideshow

  By Editorial Staff  |  April 27, 2012

  Research magazine's May cover story, "Finding the Culprits," focuses on derivatives expert Janet Tavakoli and her hard-hitting analysis of who and what caused the financial crisis.

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  Milevsky: How Much in Risky Stocks vs. Safe Cash?

  By Moshe A. Milevsky  |  April 25, 2012

  From a purely mathematical point of view, the “stocks are safer over long periods of time” argument ­— before Paul Samuelson took an axe to it — went as follows.

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  2012 IA 25; Investing in Russia; Tech and ROI: May Investment Advisor—Slideshow

  By Editorial Staff  |  April 24, 2012

  May brings the 10th annual IA 25 (well, ninth if you don’t count our special 30th anniversary edition, “Thirty for Thirty,” in 2010), Investment Advisor’s editors’ pick of the 25 most influential people in the industry.

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  The Best of Both Worlds: Active and Passive Investing

  By Bob Seawright, Madison Avenue Securities  |  April 24, 2012

  Passive investing is predicated upon the efficient markets hypothesis that it is impossible to “beat the market” over time except by being lucky. In reality, however, there is an abundance of evidence that markets are less than perfectly efficient.

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  John Bogle: the Most Successful Wall St. Occupier

  By Knut A. Rostad  |  January 24, 2012

  The founder of Vanguard and inventor of index funds’ greatest accomplishment may be yet to come: creation of a “fiduciary society.”

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  Five Good Questions on Portfolio Theory with Hedge-Fund Manager Scott Vincent

  By Bob Seawright, Madison Avenue Securities  |  June 10, 2011

  The author of “Is Portfolio Theory Harming Your Portfolio” discusses active vs. passive management

• Just Technicalities?

  By Kenneth Silber  |  October 1, 2010

  The late Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Samuelson, key figure in his profession and author of its biggest-selling textbook, wrote scornfully about "gypsy tea-leaf readers, Wall...

• Efficiently Controversial

  By Kenneth Silber  |  April 1, 2010

  Financial theory is in flux. Ideas that once were widely accepted among financial economists are in dispute. In particular, the efficient-markets hypothesis -- which dominated...

• What's the Future of Financial Products?

  By Staff Writer  |  June 1, 2008

  David Macchia: There's a lot at stake for people as they approach retirement, many with arguably insufficient assets, or certainly not the optimum amount of...