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# Michael Jensen

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Michael Cole Jensen was an American economist who worked in the field of financial economics. From 1967 to 1988, he was on the University of Rochester's faculty. Between 2000 and 2009 he worked for the Monitor Company Group, a strategy-consulting firm which became "Monitor Deloitte" in 2013. Until 2

##  Quotes by Michael Jensen

> [Very little evidence was found that any individual fund was able to do significantly better than that which we expected from mere…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-jensen/very-little-evidence-was-found-that-any-individual-fund-was-able-to/)

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> [There is no other proposition in economics that has more solid empirical evidence supporting it than the Efficient Market Hypothesis... In the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-jensen/there-is-no-other-proposition-in-economics-that-has-more-solid/)

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> [It is difficult to systematically beat the market. But it is not difficult to systematically throw money down a rat hole by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-jensen/it-is-difficult-to-systematically-beat-the-market-but-it-is-not/)

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