William Sharpe

• Balancing Retirement Risks

  By Michael Finke  |  August 23, 2012

  How much should a new retiree spend each year?

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  A Rational Look at a Much Maligned Product

  By Bob Seawright, Madison Avenue Securities  |  November 23, 2011

  Few products within the financial services industry have received as much consistent criticism as fixed index annuities. An FIA is a type of deferred fixed annuity that earns interest or provides benefits that are linked to an external reference or index, most commonly the S&P 500. The insurer underwriting the...

• My Lunch with Professor Menahem Yaari

  By Moshe A. Milevsky  |  October 26, 2011

  Menahem Yaari is an emeritus professor of economics at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and past president of the Israeli Academy of Sciences. He retired from active teaching over a decade ago, but continues to lecture widely and address scholarly conferences around the world. Amongst his many accomplishments and honors, he...

• Rethinking Zero

  By James Picerno  |  January 1, 2008

  Alpha is widely viewed as a zero sum game, and so for every investor who beats the market, someone must trail it. If this balancing...

• A Style All His Own

  By James Picerno  |  September 1, 2006

  There can never be too many choices when it comes to investment indices, judging by the insatiable appetite for new financial metrics and related products....

• A Textbook for the Education of Tomorrow's Quants

  By Staff writer  |  January 26, 2004

  Book Review

• The Nuts and Bolts of Monte Carlo

  By Staff writer  |  June 1, 2002

  The future of financial planning is in Monte Carlo. No, not the city. The technique. Already, many leading advisory firms have integrated Monte Carlo into...

• Capital Ideas Revisited

  By Staff writer  |  May 1, 2000

  After 50 years of observing market behavior, Peter