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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  William Forsyth Sharpe was born June 16, 1934, and built his career at the intersection of economics and investment theory. He co-originated the capital asset pricing model, which reshaped how markets think about risk and expected return. In 1990 he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for that work. Along the way he developed the Sharpe ratio for risk-adjusted performance analysis, contributed to the binomial method for option valuation, created the gradient method for asset allocation, and pioneered returns-based style analysis for evaluating fund behavior. He became the STANCO 25 Professor of Finance, Emeritus at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, where the tools he forged became the lingua franca of modern portfolio management.