Andrew W Lo
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Andrew W. Lo is the Harris & Harris Group Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and director of the MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering. He is the coauthor of A Non-Random Walk Down Wall Street and The Econometrics of Financial Markets (both Princeton).
The hedge fund industry has grown dramatically over the last two decades, with more than eight thousand funds now controlling close to two trillion dollars. Originally intended for...
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Andrew W. Lo is the Harris & Harris Group Professor of Finance at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A. Craig MacKinlay is Joseph P. Wargrove Professor of Finance at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. With John Y. Campbell, they are the authors of The Econometrics of Financial Markets (Princeton), which received the Paul A. Samuelson Award in 1997.
For over half a century, financial experts have regarded...
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An introductory finance textbook for the healthcare industry
We are living in a golden age of biomedical innovation, yet entrepreneurs still struggle with the so-called Valley of Death when seeking funding for their biotech start-ups. In Healthcare Finance, Andrew Lo and Shomesh Chaudhuri show that there are better ways to finance breakthrough therapies, and they provide the essential financial tools and concepts for creating the next generation...
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"Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences, Association of American Publishers" "Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award for Business, Finance & Management, Association of American Publishers" "Finalist for the 2017 TIAA Paul A. Samuelson Award, TIAA Institute" "Shortlisted for the 2017 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award" "One of the CNBC 13 Best Business Books of 2017" "One of Foreign Affairs Best of Books...
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Is there an ideal portfolio of investment assets, one that perfectly balances risk and reward? In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio examines this question by profiling and interviewing ten of the most prominent figures in the finance world: Jack Bogle, Charley Ellis, Gene Fama, Marty Liebowitz, Harry Markowitz, Bob Merton, Myron Scholes, Bill Sharpe, Bob Shiller, and Jeremy Siegel. We learn about the personal and intellectual journeys of these luminaries,...
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Andrew Lo, Director, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, and his co-author Jasmina Hasanhodzic, present the creation and evolution of technical analysis, spanning several civilizations, from the most ancient onesas far back as the Stone Age, through the rise of Wall Street as the world's financial center. It is filled with interesting facts, such as that speculative trading came into existence in ancient Babylon, where market values of various...
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"Winner of the 2014 Eugene Fama Prize for Outstanding Contributions to Doctoral Education, University of Chicago Booth School of Business" "Winner of the 1997 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Economics, Association of American Publishers" "Winner of the 1997 Paul A. Samuelson Award, TIAA-CREF" John Y. Campbell is Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics at Harvard University. Andrew W. Lo is Harris & Harris Group Professor of Finance...