William F. Sharpe

American economist

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Born 1934 · age 92United States

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Economist who won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for work on financial risk and asset pricing—the kind of invisible-but-everywhere influence that shapes how money moves globally.

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William Forsyth Sharpe is an American economist. He is the STANCO 25 Professor of Finance, Emeritus at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

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