William Sharpe & Martin Leibowitz on Equity Risk Premium, Spending Rates & Investing for Retirement

Financial Thought Exchange Podcast

Bill and Marty Join host Larry Siegel to discuss equity risk premium, spending rates, and investment strategies for retirement.

William F. Sharpe, born in 1933, is the STANCO 25 Professor of Finance, Emeritus at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. He was one of the originators of the Capital Asset Pricing Model and is the best-known exponent of it. He developed the "Sharpe Ratio" for investment performance analysis, and is one of the most widely published and celebrated authors of journal articles in the history of finance. He wrote the best-selling textbook, Investments, and many other books. In 1990, he received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.

Martin L. Leibowitz is President of Advanced Portfolio Studies LLC (APS), a consulting firm focused on issues of asset valuation and portfolio allocation. Dr. Leibowitz currently serves on the investment committees of Singapore’s GIC, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Carnegie Corporation, the IMF pension system, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

In 2021, Leibowitz received the Singapore National Day Award for his work with the GIC fund. In 2015, he was named “Financial Engineer of the Year” by the IAQF. He has written over 300 articles and has been the most frequently-published author in both the Financial Analysts Journal (FAJ) and the Journal of Portfolio Management (JPM). Ten of his FAJ articles have received Graham and Dodd Awards. He is one of very few recipients who have received all three of the CFA Institute’s highest awards.

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