(Bloomberg) — Harry Markowitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist who redefined money management by showing that diversification could reduce investment risk while maximizing returns, has died. He was 95 ...

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Nobel laureate Harry M. Markowitz, the economist whose work in modern portfolio theory gave birth to the field of quantitative finance, has died at age 95. Mr. Markowitz, who died June 22, won the ...