Robert Merton and the Effect of Time on Portfolio Choice

Finance theorists are, as everybody knows, unworldly people who scarcely tie their shoelaces, still less change a car tire. Robert Merton confounds this stereotype. As he talks amiably at the London office of Dimensional Fund Advisors (he is the firm’s “resident scientist), you sense that here is a man who could fix a flat in no time. He would probably deliver a cheerful lecture on the importance of the correct tire pressure while he was tightening the wheel nuts.

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Robert Merton and the Effect of Time on Portfolio Choice

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