Biography
Harvey D. Shapiro is senior advisor at Institutional Investor, Inc., where he has been senior contributing editor of Institutional Investor magazine as well as an advisor and moderator for numerous Institutional Investor conferences. A former adjunct professor and a Walter Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University, he has been a consultant to several foundations and other institutional investors. He earned degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Princeton University, and the University of Chicago. Contact him at [email protected].
Portfolio Pi and Portfolio Eta are new decision metrics that connect investment objectives and risks.
Standard deviation fails to characterize risk in a way that matters to most investors.
Identifying investment objectives and achieving stakeholder buy-in is the critical first step in connecting these objectives to portfolio construction.