Andrew Lo Quotes

• While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear.

  Andrew Lo

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Greed, While

• maneuver. But it also offers investors the greatest access What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn’t remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.

  Andrew Lo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hard, Learning, Remember

• The United States has the most sophisticated financial markets in the world, which does not leave much room to maneuver. But it also offers investors the greatest access to information and the ability to execute trades quickly and efficiently. So it is a mixed bag of opportunity.

  Andrew Lo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Greatest, Leave, United

• The adaptive markets hypothesis says that all economic institutions, like our own species, develop and change over time, depending on the population of investors that are engaged with them.

  Andrew Lo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change, Over, Economic

• Some people might say, ‘Can we afford it?’ I think that’s asking the wrong question… We should instead be asking, ‘Can we really afford not to try?’

  Andrew Lo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Try, Wrong, Question

• My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, ‘What can I do?’

  Andrew Lo

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Thought, Last

• Most people are overconfident about their own abilities. That is probably a good thing. But we would be horrified if a physician’s aide engaged in heart surgery.

  Andrew Lo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Heart, Surgery, Engaged

• More and more investors may be coming into markets everywhere but that doesn’t mean that the markets are really getting more and more efficient, even in the United States. It does mean that there is more access for savvy investors who watch the money flows.

  Andrew Lo

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Mean, May

• Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.

  Andrew Lo

  Topics in Risk

  Tags in Maybe, Investment

• Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial crisis suggest that this conceit may be more wishful thinking than reality.

  Andrew Lo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Crisis, Reality, May

• It’s important to understand how people perceive risk, and how that translates into investment behavior.

  Andrew Lo

  Topics in Risk

  Tags in Important, Understand

• If you rank the top 50 one-day moves in the S&P 500, a fair number of those happened within the last five or 10 years. That tells you that we’re in a different, riskier market now.

  Andrew Lo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Different, Last, Fair

• If we are able to allow people to earn a decent rate of return, with sufficient scale, we can all do well by doing good.

  Andrew Lo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Able, Return, Decent

• If troubled companies want to explain away 2008 as a ‘black swan,’ then someone should take responsibility for creating the oil slick that seems to have tarred the entire flock!

  Andrew Lo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Someone, Black, Away

• Ideas percolate. Through natural selection, the best ones survive.

  Andrew Lo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Best, Through, Ideas

• Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent.

  Andrew Lo

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Need, Sense

• Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism.

  Andrew Lo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Financial, Necessary, Capitalism

• During periods of extreme fear or greed, you don’t have the proper balance between those two to generate market efficiency and you get extremes in behavior.

  Andrew Lo

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Greed, Two

• Cancer is the great equalizer. Everyone is affected by it either themselves or through loved ones.

  Andrew Lo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Through, Everyone, Themselves

Andrew Lo (19)

Birth:	18th April, 1960
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Economist, Professor

About

Andrew Lo is the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is a leading authority on hedge funds and financial engineering; he proposed the adaptive market hypothesis. Lo is the author of several academic articles in Finance and Financial economics. Lo is the director of MIT's Laboratory for Financial Engineering, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the NASD's Economic Advisory Board, and founder and chief scientific officer of AlphaSimplex Group, a quantitative investment management company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is an associate editor of the Financial Analysts Journal, The Journal of Portfolio Management, the Journal of Computational Finance, and Statistica Sinica. He is a former governor of the Boston Stock Exchange. He previously taught at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. He received a B.A. in Economics from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.

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