A Practitioner’s Guide to Factor Models——阅读笔记
Mission
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Foreword
Ever since the seminal work of Harry M. Markowitz (1952), the identification and measurement of investment risk have been hotly debated. Markowitz constructed a mean-variance model to demonstrate how to quantify both the risk and return of an asset or a portfolio.