Awards & Winners

William Forsyth Sharpe

Date of Birth 16-June-1934
Place of Birth Boston
(Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States of America, Area code 617, Area code 857)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as William F Sharpe, William F. Sharpe, William Sharpe
Profession Economist, Professor
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. Sharpe was one of the originators of the capital asset pricing model, created the Sharpe ratio for risk-adjusted investment performance analysis, contributed to the development of the binomial method for the valuation of options, the gradient method for asset allocation optimization, and returns-based style analysis for evaluating the style and performance of investment funds.

Awards by William Forsyth Sharpe

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1990


Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
(for their pioneering work in the theory of financial economics)