The Happy Investor

Published: April 18, 2019, 1:58 p.m.

Investing can be grim. Each day’s news and analysis merely add to our list of worries. But the father of Modern Portfolio Theory, Harry Markowitz, offers a rare upbeat image of investing, through Antonio in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. BlackRock’s annual Global Investor Pulse survey tell a similar story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices