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Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared on NewRetirement. William Sharpe is a Nobel Prize-winning economist and professor of finance, emeritus, at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. His Nobel was awarded for developing the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM, a mathematical model for predicting investment risk). He is also well known for the Sharpe Ratio, a number designed to…