Friday, February 17, 2012

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The unfolding #LIBOR scandal - http://t.co/Zq47JbrF #tcm

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 04:41 AM PST

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Hmmm - Citigroup Says Peak Oil Is Dead - http://t.co/NOITppyX #tcm

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 04:41 AM PST

moneyscience: Hmmm - Citigroup Says Peak Oil Is Dead - http://t.co/NOITppyX #tcm

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MoneyScience Daily is out! http://t.co/yz3zw0GO : Top stories today via @rjocean @jeffdsachs @domlambrinos @avelouk @joshua_ulrich

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 04:41 AM PST

moneyscience: MoneyScience Daily is out! http://t.co/yz3zw0GO â–¸ Top stories today via @rjocean @jeffdsachs @domlambrinos @avelouk @joshua_ulrich

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ESMA kicks off consultations for developing technical standards for new #derivatives and short-selling regulation http://t.co/ZbPCkwsa #tcm

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 04:41 AM PST

moneyscience: ESMA kicks off consultations for developing technical standards for new #derivatives and short-selling regulation http://t.co/ZbPCkwsa #tcm

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Finance Professor, Tom Smith joins The University of Queensland Business School - http://t.co/s7xj0qOH @UQBusiness

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 04:25 AM PST

BusinessSchools: Finance Professor, Tom Smith joins The University of Queensland Business School - http://t.co/s7xj0qOH @UQBusiness

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Carlson dean finalists vie for position - new Provost Karen Hanson will make the final decision http://t.co/5mLsN8nP @CarlsonNews

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 04:25 AM PST

BusinessSchools: Carlson dean finalists vie for position - new Provost Karen Hanson will make the final decision http://t.co/5mLsN8nP @CarlsonNews

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The Euro #MBA market: conservative, competitive - Ethical evangelism among academics appeals to only 15% of applicants http://t.co/AWrwxhHh

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 04:25 AM PST

BusinessSchools: The Euro #MBA market: conservative, competitive - Ethical evangelism among academics appeals to only 15% of applicants http://t.co/AWrwxhHh

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Indian B-schools turn up trumps - http://t.co/gOFUbxtd

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 04:25 AM PST

BusinessSchools: Indian B-schools turn up trumps - http://t.co/gOFUbxtd

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To promote the Yale School of Management more effectively, Dean Snyder adds $1m to the marketing budget http://t.co/aJAfII53 @YaleSOM

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 04:25 AM PST

BusinessSchools: To promote the Yale School of Management more effectively, Dean Snyder adds $1m to the marketing budget http://t.co/aJAfII53 @YaleSOM

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London Business school deal saves iconic Marylebone Town Hall - http://t.co/d5ObQTHt @londonbschool

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 04:25 AM PST

BusinessSchools: London Business school deal saves iconic Marylebone Town Hall - http://t.co/d5ObQTHt @londonbschool

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More Science than Money: The youngest individual on Earth to achieve nuclear fusion - http://t.co/N3KyrfGZ @popsci #tcm

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 04:25 AM PST

moneyscience: More Science than Money: The youngest individual on Earth to achieve nuclear fusion - http://t.co/N3KyrfGZ @popsci #tcm

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: Studies proves that trading turns you into an arsehole

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 04:16 AM PST

For the past few weeks, the daily headlines have included report after report of insider dealings, trades that were rigged, interest rate setting practices where banks fix things to make a buck and worse.  Here are three examples from just this morning's news:read more...

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Blog Post: TheReformedBroker: Crooked Timber's Greece Post: YOU Fix It!

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 04:08 AM PST

"Welcome to Choose Your Own Troika Program For Greece!"

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Blog Post: PatrickBurns: Blog aggregators

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 03:59 AM PST

The Portfolio Probe blog is caught by two blog aggregators.read more...

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Via @Freakonometrics - What is working as an actuary really like? http://t.co/DAmHxstx #tcm

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 03:57 AM PST

BusinessSchools: Via @Freakonometrics - What is working as an actuary really like? http://t.co/DAmHxstx #tcm

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Don't try this at home: @Noahpinion: How I survived the Economics Job Market http://t.co/zsSau6bA #tcm

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 03:57 AM PST

BusinessSchools: Don't try this at home: @Noahpinion: How I survived the Economics Job Market http://t.co/zsSau6bA #tcm

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Via @Freakonometrics - What is working as an actuary really like? http://t.co/lg83UZQ4 #tcm

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 03:57 AM PST

moneyscience: Via @Freakonometrics - What is working as an actuary really like? http://t.co/lg83UZQ4 #tcm

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Don't try this at home: @Noahpinion: How I survived the Economics Job Market http://t.co/Q4KAi5dw #tcm

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 03:57 AM PST

moneyscience: Don't try this at home: @Noahpinion: How I survived the Economics Job Market http://t.co/Q4KAi5dw #tcm

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More on the University of Nebraska team winning @TradeKing 's $100K #API Campus Challenge - http://t.co/79Y09RdJ @u_nebraska #tcm

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 03:41 AM PST

BusinessSchools: More on the University of Nebraska team winning @TradeKing 's $100K #API Campus Challenge - http://t.co/79Y09RdJ @u_nebraska #tcm

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We now have more than 50 financial bloggers contributing at MoneyScience - http://t.co/NEPMVuwD

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 03:41 AM PST

BusinessSchools: We now have more than 50 financial bloggers contributing at MoneyScience - http://t.co/NEPMVuwD

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Blog Post: mathfinance: Option Strategies Week in Review 160212

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 03:33 AM PST

Stochastic Volatility Models and the Pricing of VIX Options:  this paper examines and compares the performance of a variety of continuous-time volatility models in their ability to capture the behavior of the VIX.Finding the best distribution that fits the data: the title tells, select a best fitted distribution among dozens candidates for a given data series.No-Hype Options Trading:...

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Blog Post: NumericalAlgorithmsGroup: Self Improvement - An Algorithms for getting to "empty"

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 03:31 AM PST

Whether we like it or not, at NAG and many other organizations, we live in an "e-mail" culture meaning that e-mails are how we communicate, receive and retain information. For many of us, e-mails also document both what we have done and what we still have to do. If you are like most in this culture, your e-mail inbox is the hub of your work life. I'm going to suggest an inbox "experiment" for you...

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NASDAQ, BATS and the CBOE were knocked offline earlier this week by hacktivists, anonymous http://t.co/Y2AbjiIK #tcm

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 03:12 AM PST

fin_tech: NASDAQ, BATS and the CBOE were knocked offline earlier this week by hacktivists, anonymous http://t.co/Y2AbjiIK #tcm

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More on the University of Nebraska team winning @TradeKing 's $100K #API Campus Challenge - http://t.co/qVTdhQnT @u_nebraska #tcm

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 03:12 AM PST

fin_tech: More on the University of Nebraska team winning @TradeKing 's $100K #API Campus Challenge - http://t.co/qVTdhQnT @u_nebraska #tcm

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Blog Post: QFINANCE: Greek deal is probably undeliverable, warns Pimco

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 02:29 AM PST

Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: Musings on the '400% Manâ

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 02:20 AM PST

When I read the following article at SmartMoney, I said to myself. “I have done almost as well, I am more diversified, and I am willing to explain more of what I do.”read more...

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A London university is facing a fine of just under £6m for over-recruiting UK undergraduates this year http://t.co/9JRGPktp

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 01:00 AM PST

BusinessSchools: A London university is facing a fine of just under £6m for over-recruiting UK undergraduates this year http://t.co/9JRGPktp

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Blog Post: FINalternatives: Egerton Co-Founder Bollinger Launches Hedge Fund In Asia

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 12:46 AM PST

William Bollinger, a co-founder of Egerton Capital and former protégé of Julian Robertson, has launched a new hedge fund in Singapore.read more...

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The Financial Education Daily is out! http://t.co/TYlzia3F ⸠Top stories today via @skema_bs @saitpolytechnic @carlsonnews @baruch_zicklin

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 11:37 PM PST

BusinessSchools: The Financial Education Daily is out! http://t.co/TYlzia3F â–¸ Top stories today via @skema_bs @saitpolytechnic @carlsonnews @baruch_zicklin

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Blog Post: HighFrequencyTradingReview: smartTrade's FX technology supports Commerzbank

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 11:15 PM PST

smartTrade's technology aggregates liquidity globally to provide a single pool of liquidity, order matching, and smart routingread more...

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Published / Preprint: NONCONVEXITY OF THE OPTIMAL EXERCISE BOUNDARY FOR AN AMERICAN PUT OPTION ON A DIVIDENDâPAYING ASSET

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 11:04 PM PST

We prove that when the dividend rate of the underlying asset following a geometric Brownian motion is slightly larger than the risk‐free interest rate, the optimal exercise boundary of the American put option is not convex.read more...

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Blog Post: Falkenblog: Thinking Metaphorically

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 07:12 PM PST

Over at Edge.org, a couple scientists (Benjamin K. Bergen and Simone Schnall) mentioned that metaphors are a very powerful explanation of how humans think. The idea is that you don't just talk about understanding as seeing, you think about understanding as seeing; morality is thought of as cleanliness, affection as warmth, winners are thought of as being in front of others. The abstract is...

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Blog Post: AllAboutAlpha: James Rickards on the Huge Threats to the Financial Markets

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 05:57 PM PST

James Rickards is a global expert on financial markets and global security. In this exclusive interview, he discusses some of the massive threats our financial markets face (internally and externally) and explains why he thinks "….all the tools in modern finance are basically false science. "

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Blog Post: frontrunthedelta: Class Structure Spreading: Berkshire Hathaway

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 05:56 PM PST

This is the spread of Berkshire Class A vs. Class B shares.  Obviously capital intensive.  Lei goes into more detail in his 2008 paper on the subject.  Prices were recorded 11 September, 2011.

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Published / Preprint: Agent-based Versus Macroscopic Modeling of Competition and Business Processes in Economics and Finance. (arXiv:1202.3533v1 [q-fin.GN])

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 05:33 PM PST

We present examples of agent-based and stochastic models of competition and business processes in economics and finance. We start from as simple as possible models, which have microscopic, agent-based, versions and macroscopic treatment in behavior. Microscopic and macroscopic versions of herding model proposed by Kirman and Bass diffusion of new products are considered in this contribution as...

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Blog Post: TalesfromaTradingDesk: Nanosecond Trading

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 05:06 PM PST

Wired offers an interesting article on the Flash Crash of 2010 coupled with new analysis:read more...

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Blog Post: MoneyManagersLive: 2011 Stock Market Recap

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 04:25 PM PST

After all was said and done 2011 was indicative of a bifurcated world of governments behaving badly while the private sector continued to grow. The deflationary effects of winding down the credit bubble continue to be pitted against the inflationary moves of central banks. Despite calls for a recession the U.S. economy continued to grow and add jobs at a mediocre pace. The recovery continues...

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Blog Post: FinanceClippings: What does it mean to "subscribe" to a blog and how do I do it?

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 02:01 PM PST

Not really finance related, but this may be useful to some people. If you look over on the right hand side of this page there is a link that says "Subscribe to Finance Clippings".  If you click this link you'll see a bunch of options.   So what exactly is all this stuff? There are a variety of ways you can view this (and any other blog).  The two most common ways are either to...

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Blog Post: TimingLogic: Rick Perry Doesn't Want To Go Away. Who Can Blame Him? Politics Pays For People Like Perry.

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 11:56 AM PST

You know, most of these political masters of the universe have no skills to actually do anything.   They generally have no idea what they are talking about beyond a few canned paragraphs on any particular topic.  They have to suck the life out of someone else.  That’s what politics is in this country; living off of productive people in society.   Or, should I say...

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Blog Post: EconometricsBeat: ANZecmet

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 09:31 AM PST

The following was circulated yesterday by Rob Hyndman, at Monash University: "ANZecmet is a mailing list intended for econometricians in Australia and New Zealand, but may be of interest to a wider audience. It provides a forum for exchanging views, posting technical questions and responses, job advertisements, conference announcements, new publications, and so on. The ANZecmet mailing list used...

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Former Merrill Lynch broker fined £350,000 for 'serious market abuse' http://t.co/MqkdpSQO #tcm

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 09:25 AM PST

fin_tech: Former Merrill Lynch broker fined £350,000 for 'serious market abuse' http://t.co/MqkdpSQO #tcm

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An ancient Greek method uncovers flaws in RSA algorithm for public-key cryptography - http://t.co/YTGg7Rbq #tcm

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 09:25 AM PST

fin_tech: An ancient Greek method uncovers flaws in RSA algorithm for public-key cryptography - http://t.co/YTGg7Rbq #tcm

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For the big players in enterprise technology algorithms, it's about finding big patterns beyond the data itself http://t.co/cWJwUJuK #tcm

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 09:25 AM PST

fin_tech: For the big players in enterprise technology algorithms, it’s about finding big patterns beyond the data itself http://t.co/cWJwUJuK #tcm

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How MoneyScience works with Business Schools and Universities: http://t.co/Gvl9xcvZ #education

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 08:47 AM PST

BusinessSchools: How MoneyScience works with Business Schools and Universities: http://t.co/Gvl9xcvZ #education

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Blog Post: MusingsonMarkets: The IPO of the decade? My valuation of Facebook

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 08:27 AM PST

The Facebook IPO gets closer and I don’t think I can put off this valuation much longer. While we don’t have an offering price yet, the preliminary estimates are that the company will be valued somewhere between $75 billion and $100 billion. As with my Skype, Linkedin and Groupon valuations, I will present my assumptions and valuation of Facebook, with the admission that I have no crystal...

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Cass and the British Council of Shopping Centres link up to deliver executive masterclasses

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 08:18 AM PST

Programme developed as industry faces 'challenging market'

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New and Updated: Financial Education Focus - The RSS Feed - http://t.co/Zufh2qTk

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 08:03 AM PST

BusinessSchools: New and Updated: Financial Education Focus - The RSS Feed - http://t.co/Zufh2qTk

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STOCK BROS from University of Nebraska win the #TradeKing #API Campus Challenge. http://t.co/qLl0TbzG @u_nebraska

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 07:08 AM PST

BusinessSchools: STOCK BROS from University of Nebraska win the #TradeKing #API Campus Challenge. http://t.co/qLl0TbzG @u_nebraska

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Motherhood â and the policies that make it incompatible with a tenure-track research career - http://t.co/tR4iOA26 #tcm

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 05:41 AM PST

BusinessSchools: Motherhood â€" and the policies that make it incompatible with a tenure-track research career - http://t.co/tR4iOA26 #tcm

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Award-Winning Finance Professor Helyette Geman Named Special Advisor to Commodity Talent LLC

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 02:51 AM PST

Helyette Geman, award-winning commodity finance professor and advisor to governments and some of the largest financial service companies and commodity firms, has been named Special Advisor to Commodity Talent LLC, the New York-based global executive recruitment firm announced today.read more...

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