Monday, December 3, 2012

MoneyScience News

MoneyScience News


Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: Mobile domination: half of all Visa payments will be made by mobile in 2020

Posted: 03 Dec 2012 04:32 AM PST

The Sunday Times had a specially sponsored section on mobile business this weekend.  The section gave some interesting stats that are worth repeating (just in case you didn’t think mobile payments is big business): read more...

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Study: Only a third of us show a consistent approach to financial risk

Posted: 03 Dec 2012 03:47 AM PST

Empirically rich new study finds most people alter their risk-management approach depending on the type of financial decision.read more...

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Wiley WILMOTT Summit: A 50% reduction on delegate fee or live stream with the discount code: WWS50 @wb_finance #quant http://t.co/tM1qTsPT

Posted: 03 Dec 2012 02:09 AM PST

BusinessSchools: Wiley WILMOTT Summit: A 50% reduction on delegate fee or live stream with the discount code: WWS50 @wb_finance #quant http://t.co/tM1qTsPT

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The Financial Education Daily is out! http://t.co/mgDaff68

Posted: 02 Dec 2012 11:48 PM PST

BusinessSchools: The Financial Education Daily is out! http://t.co/mgDaff68

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Published / Preprint: Statistical Microeconomics. (arXiv:1211.7172v1 [q-fin.GN])

Posted: 02 Dec 2012 05:32 PM PST

A statistical generalization is made of microeconomics in the spirit of going from classical to statistical mechanics. The price and quantity of every commodity1 traded in the market, at each instant of time, is considered to be an independent random variable: all prices and quantities are considered to be stochastic processes, with the observed market prices being a random sample of the...

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Blog Post: Falkenblog: Embedded Leverage and Returns

Posted: 02 Dec 2012 05:27 PM PST

Frazzini and Petersen, the duo behind AQR's Betting Against Beta theory behind the low vol anomaly, have a new paper out on embedded leverage. Their theory is basically that investors are constrained in their allocation to equities, so overload on those equities with the highest betas in order to get more equity exposure. The paper looks at both levered ETFs, and options (from 1996-2010)....

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MoneyScience Daily is out! http://t.co/aGkJAVQE : Top stories today via @BusinessSchools

Posted: 02 Dec 2012 06:44 AM PST

moneyscience: MoneyScience Daily is out! http://t.co/aGkJAVQE â–¸ Top stories today via @BusinessSchools

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Event: MoneyScience Financial Training - Introduction to QuantLib Development with Luigi Ballabio

Posted: 10 Oct 2012 05:28 AM PDT

Location: Kings College London; Date: December 10th, 2012;  read more...

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RT @msgbi: RT @newsycombinator: Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone http://t.co/f8pzrbgP

Posted: 10 Oct 2012 04:24 AM PDT

fin_tech: RT @msgbi: RT @newsycombinator: Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone http://t.co/f8pzrbgP

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