...It's not an unreasonable comparison to make, between the credit crisis of the last decade and the muni market Citi envisions busting out next year, says Andrew Lo, a professor of finance at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School. "People are mostly focused on the muni market and...

...himself out, according to people familiar with the search. Mr. Shiller declined to comment. Other academics with an interest in the field, including Andrew Lo of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have taken themselves out of the running. The administration has also spoken to John Geanakoplos...

Liquidity and a Premium? This is a brief review of a surprising result from a working paper by Andrew Lo and Amir Khandani.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology finance professor Andrew W. Lo and Mark T. Mueller, a senior lecturer at MIT's Sloan School of Management, are the first winners of the Harry M. Markowitz Award for their 2010 paper exploring the limitations of quantitative models in predicting market outcomes.

...Authorities are expected to vote on the measure this year. "It's definitely a step in the right direction in terms of providing transparency," said Andrew Lo, professor of finance at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who has studied hedge funds for more than a decade. "While it is good...

...The current U.S. financial regulations were not as effective as they needed to be and should be updated, a top financial expert told Xinhua Friday. Andrew Lo, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and director of MIT's Laboratory for Financial Engineering, said...

Highlights a Wall Street Journal report, which discusses the study of hedge fund performance by Andrew Lo that shows that fund returns have been moving more closely together over the past five years.

MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo's book, The Evolution of Technical Analysis: Financial Prediction from Babylonian Tablets to Bloomberg Terminals, co-authored with Jasmina Hasanhodzic is highlighted as a book to read.

Andrew Lo's research is highlighted in this article, which questions why the success of particular strategies changes over time. According to Lo, "the basic premise here is that investors have bounded rationality."...

"It is a technological arms race in financial markets and the regulators are a bit caught unaware of how quickly the technology has evolved," says Andrew Lo, director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineernig at M.I.T. "Sometimes, too much technology without the ability to manage it effectively can yield some unintended consequences. We need to ask the hard questions about how much of this do we really need. It is the Wild, Wild West in trading."...

MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering's Andrew Lo on why volatility is the biggest risk to your investments.

MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo and fellow researchers have built models and algorithms that attempt to account for overconfidence in certain market sectors and extreme risk aversion in others: "The problem is that you can't manage what you don't measure," he says. "And since we don't have single measure of systemic risk, we can't say whether it is higher or lower today than it was before."...

David Warsh provides a list of four books about investing that he considers to be the best, including Andrew Lo and Jasmina Hasanhodzic's The Evolution of Technical Analysis: Financial Prediction from Babylonian Tablets to Bloomberg Terminals, which he says is destined to become a classic.

...The Commodity Futures Trading Commission should take an expansive view of its new powers to police disruptive trading practices, according to Andrew Lo, professor at MIT Sloan...

It's a challenging environment in which to make money—volatility is high, and returns are sideways to low. As investors proceed, they should consider the new world order of investment truths, as expressed in three basic principles outlined by Andrew Lo.