Markowitz built a diversified portfolio model that assumed that the portfolio structure would be located on the frontierpoint that would yield maximum utility.
Given the enormous obligations of many Ivy League endowments to fund general university operations, their portfolios were positioned on the wrong point of the efficient frontier.
Among the unique objects which point to the presence of Africans on the military frontier, is a 2nd Century AD blue glass mould-blown vessel in the form of an African man's head.