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Copyright 0 1992 by Ralph Vince Dedication
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publisher is not engaged in rendering Icgal, accounting, or other professional scr- The favorable reception of Portfolio Management Formulas exceeded
vices. If legal adlice or other expert assistance is required, the services of pe- even the greatest expectation I ever had for the book. I had written it to
tent professional person should be sought. promote the concept of optimal f and begin to immerse readers in portfolio
theory and its missing relationship with optimal f.
Besides finding friends out there, Portjdio Management Formulas was
surprisingly met by quite an appetite for the math concerning money man-
agement. Hence this book. I am indebted to Karl Weber, Wendy Grau, and
others at John Wiley & Sons who allowed me the necessary latitude this
book required.
There are many others with whom I have corresponded in one sort or
another, or who in one way or another have contributed to, helped me with,
or influenced the material in this book. Among them are Florence Bobeck,
Hugo Rourdssa, Joe Bristor, Simon Davis, Richard Firestone, Fred Gehm
(whom I had the good fortune