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: The text places significant weight on how investors should distribute their wealth across broad asset classes. CFA Institute Alignment

The 13th edition isn't just a reprint; it's a thorough update designed to reflect the current financial landscape.

The authors are careful to distinguish between ex ante (forward-looking) and ex post (historical) measures. This distinction is critical for the 13th edition’s treatment of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) in Chapter 9. Unlike earlier editions that presented CAPM as a near-factual description of equilibrium, the 13th edition emphasizes its limitations—particularly the failure of the pure version to explain small-cap and value premiums. By incorporating Fama-French three-factor and Carhart four-factor models earlier in the text, the authors prepare students for a multi-factor world.

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