Current Issue

Volume 23, No. 2, Second Quarter 2025
Special Issue: Honoring Harry M. Markowitz

This special issue consists of selected presentations from an outstanding line-up of presenters who came together to pay tribute to an icon of investment management, Harry Markowitz at the Rady School of Management, UCSD.

Remarks by Nobel Laureates: Robert Merton, William Sharpe and Investment Management Practitioners
Robert Merton, William F. Sharpe, Vineer Bhansali, Kenneth Blay and Mark Kritzman

Have Capital Markets Forgotten about Sustainability?
Robert Engle

Markowitz Wealth Management to Pension Plans: Augmenting the Funded Ratio with New Metrics
Sanjiv Das

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Portfolio Theory in Theory and Practice
Andrew W. Lo

Collaborating with Harry Markowitz: A Remembrance
Bruce Jacobs

Why Fusion and Why Now?
Dennis Whyte

Why Genetic Medicines and Why Now?
Neil Kumar

BOOK REVIEW
Book Review – On Progress and Prosperity: Essays 2019–2024
By Laurence B. Siegel (Reviewed by Mullika Sahrawat)

Upcoming JOIM events:

Fall JOIM Conference – October 26 – 28, 2025
McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin

https://joim.com/conference-series/

Call for Papers
The JOIM is currently accepting manuscript submissions in the area of investment management and related fields for a special issue series. Data Science including Artificial Intelligence Analysis, Asset allocation, Machine Learning / FinTech, Optimization, Behavioral Finance, Retirement Investing and Liquidity are of particular interest.

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