By contrasting features of Markowitz 1952 with Markowitz 1991, we offer an evaluation matrix as a tool that challenges the suitability of the advisory industry’s application of MPT investing for an individual’s portfolio.
Some advisors fail to highlight the difference between expense categories and claim that clients do not see food, shelter, insurance differently than country club dues or vacation cruises, hence the expense categories are combined and called ‘lifestyle expenses’. In our view, this is a distortion of affluence.
