There's a reason Wall Street firms recruit from MIT. For many investors, the financial markets are governed entirely by mathematical equations applied to aspects of a security's price and trading ...

We had our first taste of the problem with mean-variance optimization at a hedge fund some years back. We loaded the positions into an optimizer, pressed the button, and discovered 25% of the ...

With the publication of his simply titled dissertation, "Portfolio Selection," 55 years ago, Harry Markowitz, a doctoral candidate in economics at the University of Chicago, presented the investment ...

Axioma, a global provider of risk and portfolio management solutions, released the latest version of Axioma Portfolio Optimizer (APO 2017.R4). Key updates include multi-core optimization for shorter ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...