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William Sharpe

William Sharpe

Formal First Name
William
Dates
1934 - present

William Sharpe is a notable American economist who was awarded the 1990 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to help with investment decision making. Sharpe is well known for developing the capital asset pricing model and Sharpe ratio in the 1960s.

HONORS:

Phi Beta Kappa

Financial Analysts' Federation, Graham and Dodd Award for excellence in financial writing for 1972.

Financial Analysts' Federation, Graham and Dodd Award for excellence in financial writing  for 1973.

Dow-Jones and American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business award for outstanding contribution to the field of collegiate Business education, 1980.

Financial Analysts' Federation, Nicholas Molodovsky Award, 1989.

Western Finance Association, Enduring Contribution Award, 1989.

The Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1990.

Eastern Finance Association, Distinguished Scholar Award, 1991.

UCLA Alumni Association, Award of Distinction, 1991.

Senior Fellow, International Association of Financial Engineers, 1993.

James R. Vertin Award of the Research Foundation of the ICFA, 1996

Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, De Paul University, 1997

The UCLA Medal, 1998

Fellow, the American Finance Association, 2000-

Fellow, The Financial Management Association International, 2000-

Risk Magazine, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2002

Doctor Honoris Causa, The University of Alicante, Spain 2003

Doctor Honoris Causa, The University of Vienna, Austria, 2004

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Fred Arditti Innovation Award, 2005

Award for Lifetime Achievement in Indexing, the Superbowl of Indexing, 2005

CFA Institute, Graham and Dodd Award for excellence in research and financial writing, 2007

Matthew R. McArthur Award, Investment Management Consultants Association, 2008

CFA Institute, Graham and Dodd Award for excellence in research and financial writing, 2010

The Lillywhite Award for Extraordinary Lifetime Contributions to Americans' Economic Security, 2012

CFA Institute, Graham and Dodd Award for excellence in research and financial writing, 2014

CFA Institute, Graham and Dodd Best Perspectives Award, 2015

The Wharton-Jacobs Levy Prize for Quantitative Financial Innovation, 2016