William F. Sharpe's Birth Card: The Ace of Diamonds

In the record

William Forsyth Sharpe (born June 16, 1934) is an American economist. The birth-card coordinate for June 16 is the Ace of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1990 Economic Sciences prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1990 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — for their pioneering work in the theory of financial economics

The Ace of Diamonds coordinate

William F. Sharpe's birthday maps to the Ace of Diamonds (The Wealth Pioneer). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on William F. Sharpe. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You start a resource in motion because you trust you can make and keep value.

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William F. Sharpe in the public record

He is the STANCO 25 Professor of Finance, Emeritus at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Sharpe was one of the originators of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM). He created the Sharpe ratio for risk-adjusted investment performance analysis, and he contributed to the development of the binomial method for the valuation of options, the gradient method for asset allocation optimization, and returns-based style analysis for evaluating the style and performance of investment funds. Sharpe's work on the capital asset pricing model established a mathematical framework for evaluating the relationship between risk and return. The model identifies that the expected return of an asset is equal to the risk-free rate plus a premium based on the asset's systematic risk, or beta. The standard CAPM equation is: E ( R i ) = R f + β i ( E ( R m ) − R f ) {\displaystyle E(R_{i})=R_{f}+\beta _{i}(E(R_{m})-R_{f})} where: E ( R i ) {\displaystyle E(R_{i})} is the expected return on the capital asset; R f {\displaystyle R_{f}} is the risk-free rate of interest; β i {\displaystyle \beta _{i}} is the sensitivity of the expected excess asset returns to the expected excess market returns; E ( R m ) {\displaystyle E(R_{m})} is the expected return of the market. William Sharpe was born on June 16, 1934, in Boston, Massachusetts. As his father was in the National Guard, the family moved several times during World War II, until they finally settled in Riverside, California.

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Where the record meets the 2 of Diamonds

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You name the exchange out loud and keep it fair for both sides. You understand value exchange and partnership in material terms. You're good at splitting bills, sharing assets, creating fair deals. Your mind works in reciprocity.

He created the Sharpe ratio for risk-adjusted investment performance analysis, and he contributed to the development of the binomial method for the valuation of options, the gradient method for asset allocation optimization, and returns-based style analysis for evaluating the style and performance of investment funds.

Paired on shared wording: asset, created.

Also on the record

1. Sharpe spent the rest of his childhood and teenage years in Riverside, graduating from Riverside Polytechnic High School in 1951.
2. He then enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley planning to pursue a degree in medicine.
3. However, in the first year he decided to change his focus and moved to the University of California, Los Angeles to study business administration.
4. Finding that he was not interested in accounting, Sharpe had a further change in preferences, finally majoring in economics.

Other laureates with this card

• Alfred D. Hershey — 1969 Physiology or Medicine
• Andrea Ghez — 2020 Physics
• Arthur H. Compton — 1927 Physics
• Barbara McClintock — 1983 Physiology or Medicine
• Bernard L. Feringa — 2016 Chemistry
• Bertrand Russell — 1950 Literature
• Brian P. Schmidt — 2011 Physics
• Burton Richter — 1976 Physics
• César Milstein — 1984 Physiology or Medicine
• David J. Wineland — 2012 Physics
• Ei-ichi Negishi — 2010 Chemistry
• Erwin Schrödinger — 1933 Physics
• 18 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is William F. Sharpe's birth card?

The Ace of Diamonds. June 16 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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