How the Creators of the First Index Fund Influence Financial Innovation Today And the challenges original efficient-market pioneers faced in their pursuit of truth in finance. Jess Bebel May 4, 2025 ...

Why Fama, and others who argue for market efficiency, are the most important figures in behavioral economics. FAMA: Behavioral finance, well, that had its time, but everything is behavioral after all.

Asness, a former doctoral student under Nobel laureate Eugene Fama, saw shifts in market efficiency over his career, through meme stocks and valuation disparities post-pandemic.

Asness, a former doctoral student under Nobel laureate Eugene Fama, saw shifts in market efficiency over his career, through meme stocks and valuation disparities post-pandemic.

Snagging a lunch date with the financial economist Eugene Fama proved almost as hard as beating the stock market. My first attempt in 2021 foundered because of long-lasting Covid-19 lockdowns.

CFM’s Stratus gained 18.3% when stock and bond markets swooned in 2022 and posted another 11.3% advance last year, according to the person familiar. The performance stands out compared to the ...

Economists’ longstanding debate about market efficiency sheds light on these questions. In the 1970s, Eugene Fama argued in his efficient-market hypothesis that asset prices reflect all ...

In 1970, in “Efficient Capital Markets: a Review of Theory and Empirical Work,” Eugene F. Fama defined a market to be “informationally efficient” if prices at each moment incorporate all available ...

Few Ph.D papers have been more influential than economist Eugene Fama’s 1965 thesis. Fama’s hypothesis helped spark a school of thought in finance that held that all efforts to beat the stock ...