Meir Statman
The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Meir Statman embodies the Visionary by refusing to accept finance's conventional borders. The Glenn Klimek Professor at Santa Clara insists that markets are inseparable from the full texture of human experience, and his portfolio metaphor for life well-being is no borrowed flourish.
“Well, you know, I coordinate internships of finance majors. And what I tell them, I use the word serendipity that is fined by accident. You have to And you do that by kind of keeping your eyes open and keeping to this idea of serendipity.”
“People who are immune to cognitive errors, people who look only for risk and return when they choose products, financial products, financial services.”
“Well, there is great confusion about this issue of market efficiency. There's a claim that behavioral finesse, great contribution is to show that markets are not efficient. That, I think, is not so. There are two concepts, two notions of market efficiency that are regularly confused.”
“He was editing that at the time. And then I sent him some more and we got into a correspondence and he was always interested in ideas. The last thing that matters to him is status, you know. You're a full professor or assistant. He just thrilled to new ideas. And so, and he was always innovative.”
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