Campbell Russell "Cam" Harvey was born on June 23,1958 and is a Canadian economist, known for his work on asset allocation with changing risk and risk premiums and the problem of separating luck from skill in investment management.
10 Facts About Campbell Harvey
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Campbell Harvey is currently the J Paul Sticht Professor of International Business at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business in Durham, North Carolina, as well as a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Campbell Harvey is a research associate with the Institute of International Integration Studies at Trinity College Dublin and a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford.
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Campbell Harvey served as the 2016 president of the American Finance Association.
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Campbell Harvey earned his undergraduate degree in economics and political science from Trinity College at the University of Toronto in 1981 and his MBA from York University in Toronto in 1983.
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Campbell Harvey's thesis was published in the Journal of Financial Economics in 1988.
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Campbell Harvey was one of the early finance researchers to study emerging markets' equity and bond returns.
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Campbell Harvey has been a strong proponent of modifying the view of risk.
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Second, investors like positive skew and dislike negative skew ; Campbell Harvey argues these preferences need to be taken into account in both portfolio management and risk management.
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Campbell Harvey asserts estimates are imprecise and this uncertainty needs to be taken into account when making investment decisions.