To the ridicule of money managers, his book, "A Random Walk Down Wall Street," suggested that the best thing investors could do for themselves was invest in an index, such as the Standard & Poor's 500 ...

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When Burton Malkiel published A Random Walk Down Wall Street 50 years ago, he said a blindfolded chimpanzee throwing darts could pick a stock portfolio that would do as well as one created by experts.

Tim Smith has 20+ years of experience in the financial services industry, both as a writer and as a trader. Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a ...

Princeton University emeritus economist Burton Malkiel, who turns 91 this year, has published a 50th-anniversary edition of his investing classic, A Random Walk Down Wall Street. Kim Clark, Kiplinger: ...

Why is it that when you walk randomly, the more you walk, the farther you get from your starting point? The Quanta Newsletter ...

The random walk theorem, first presented by French mathematician Louis Bachelier in 1900 and then expanded upon by economist Burton Malkiel in his 1973 book A Random Walk Down Wall Street, asserts ...