Saturday, March 17, 2012

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Blog Post: TheReformedBroker: The Real Saint Pádraig

Posted: 17 Mar 2012 04:09 AM PDT

When he was around 16 years old, Patrick was kidnapped by Irish marauders who sold him into slavery to a Druid herdsman named Milchu.

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The Financial Education Daily is out! http://t.co/TYlzia3F ⸠Top stories today via @IndiaUniversity @DCULINK @EsadeExed

Posted: 17 Mar 2012 12:36 AM PDT

BusinessSchools: The Financial Education Daily is out! http://t.co/TYlzia3F â–¸ Top stories today via @IndiaUniversity @DCULINK @EsadeExed

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@Cassinthenews: FSA chief calls for radical action on shadow banking http://t.co/G3Dh57sD

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 11:43 PM PDT

BusinessSchools: @Cassinthenews: FSA chief calls for radical action on shadow banking http://t.co/G3Dh57sD

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Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: Book Review: The Most Important Thing

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 10:31 PM PDT

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Blog Post: TheMonetaryFuture: Brainwallet: The Ultimate in Mobile Money

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 10:27 PM PDT

By Jon Matonis Forbes Monday, March 12, 2012 http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/03/12/brainwallet-the-ultimate-in-mobile-money/ For as much as I am fascinated by the societal and political implications of bitcoin, I must admit that I am equally fascinated by the implications of Brainwallet. Quite simply, a brainwallet, or thoughtcoin, refers to the concept of storing bitcoin in...

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Blog Post: ComplexityDigest: Navigating the Anthropocene: Improving Earth System Governance

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 04:57 PM PDT

Science assessments indicate that human activities are moving several of Earth's sub-systems outside the range of natural variability typical for the previous 500,000 years. Human societies must now change course and steer away from critical tipping points in the Earth system that might lead to rapid and irreversible change. This requires fundamental reorientation and restructuring of...

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RT @QFINANCEnews: Gold: A risk asset? http://t.co/uY2sfNsE

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 03:08 PM PDT

moneyscience: RT @QFINANCEnews: Gold: A risk asset? http://t.co/uY2sfNsE

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Blog Post: FinanceClippings: TIPS are unattractive

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 03:05 PM PDT

A great blog post from a new (to me) blogger, The Calafia Beach Pundit, who talks about what the negative real return on TIPs means for investors. He concludes: To sum up: TIPS are only attractive to an investor who believes 1) that inflation will prove to be higher than expected, and 2) that economic growth will continue to be disappointing Thanks to Ben (one of my MBA students) for...

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ICMA Centre News: Fahad Alhumaidah http://t.co/8Da44w7r

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 11:53 AM PDT

BusinessSchools: ICMA Centre News: Fahad Alhumaidah http://t.co/8Da44w7r

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The loudest voices in the econoblogosphere don't come from Europe http://t.co/Ln9UnAWI #tcm via @margrev

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 11:08 AM PDT

BusinessSchools: The loudest voices in the econoblogosphere don't come from Europe http://t.co/Ln9UnAWI #tcm via @margrev

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The loudest voices in the econoblogosphere don't come from Europe http://t.co/9PUjmH1x #tcm via @margrev

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 10:56 AM PDT

moneyscience: The loudest voices in the econoblogosphere don't come from Europe http://t.co/9PUjmH1x #tcm via @margrev

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RT @thomsonreuters: Want to know how volatile a volatility index is? Welcome to the VIX of the VIX - http://t.co/iRv3zAZ4

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 10:56 AM PDT

moneyscience: RT @thomsonreuters: Want to know how volatile a volatility index is? Welcome to the VIX of the VIX - http://t.co/iRv3zAZ4

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Blog Post: TimingLogic: Coca-Cola Removes Known Carcinogen to Avoid Cancer Warning Label

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 09:39 AM PDT

Yummy!.  Give me another Diet Coke with my pink-slime antibiotic burger…  on second thought make that a genetically-modified, pesticide, veggie, soybean burger and an order of hydrogenated vegetable oil, pesticide fries.

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RT @eddelbuettel: R/Finance 2012 registration is now open -- announcement and website update to follow http://t.co/GAbHr0fo #rstats

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 09:25 AM PDT

moneyscience: RT @eddelbuettel: R/Finance 2012 registration is now open -- announcement and website update to follow http://t.co/GAbHr0fo #rstats

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I'm surprised I haven't seen this tweeted more: - Am I a Muppet or a Man? The Muppets. http://t.co/zNJFSIGt #tcm #tragicallyfunny

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 09:25 AM PDT

moneyscience: I'm surprised I haven't seen this tweeted more: - Am I a Muppet or a Man? The Muppets. http://t.co/zNJFSIGt #tcm #tragicallyfunny

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Blog Post: RobertPestonBlog: Why Sants is quitting the FSA

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 09:25 AM PDT

Hector Sants was never a great fan of the break-up of the Financial Services Authority, which was put in train by George Osborne after the 2010 election.read more...

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Research Library: Market Timing with Moving Averages

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 08:52 AM PDT

Paskalis Glabadanidis University of Adelaide Business School Abstract I present evidence that a moving average trading strategy dominates buying and holding the underlying asset in a mean-variance sense using monthly returns of value-weighted decile portfolios sorted by market size, book-to-market cash-flow-to-price, earnings-to-price, dividend-price, short-term reversal, medium-term momentum,...

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Video - A West End play called 'Toxic Bankers' and a short interview with City AM editor Alistair Heath -http://bbc.in/zpvy71 #tcm

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 08:06 AM PDT

moneyscience: Video - A West End play called 'Toxic Bankers' and a short interview with City AM editor Alistair Heath -http://bbc.in/zpvy71 #tcm

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Blog Post: FINalternatives: Man Group Chief Sees Hedge Fund Demand In Asia

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 07:29 AM PDT

The head of the world’s largest publicly traded hedge fund group sees demand for hedge funds from sovereign and institutional investors in the Asia-Pacific region.read more...

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Blog Post: HighFrequencyTradingReview: Report from OnX FIX Consortium Breakfast Briefing

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 07:09 AM PDT

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Blog Post: QFINANCE: Gold: A risk asset?

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 06:32 AM PDT

FSA chief calls for radical action on shadow banking

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 06:12 AM PDT

Lord Adair Turner uses lecture at Cass to warn $47 trillion sector must be reined in

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Financial Technology News Report is out! http://t.co/Jdseecpa : Top stories today via @NiemannCapital @MFDVbrokers @Equinix

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 05:50 AM PDT

fin_tech: Financial Technology News Report is out! http://t.co/Jdseecpa â–¸ Top stories today via @NiemannCapital @MFDVbrokers @Equinix

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Published / Preprint: Empirical Evidence for the Structural Recovery Model

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 05:13 AM PDT

While defaults are rare events, losses can be substantial even for credit portfolios with a large number of contracts. Therefore, not only a good evaluation of the probability of default is crucial, but also the severity of losses needs to be estimated. The recovery rate is often modeled independently with regard to the defa 5d1 ult probability, whereas the Merton model yields a functional...

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Published / Preprint: Random walks on temporal networks

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 05:13 AM PDT

Many natural and artificial networks evolve in a58 time. Nodes and connections appear and disappear at various timescales, and their dynamics has profound consequences for any processes in which they are involved. The first empirical analysis of the temporal patterns characterizing dynamic networks are still recent, so that many questions remain open. Here, we study how random walks, as paradigm...

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Published / Preprint: Control centrality and hierarchical structure in complex networks

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 05:13 AM PDT

We introduce the concept of control centrality to quantify the ability of a single node to control a directed weighted network. We calculate the distribution of control centrality for several real networks and find that it is mainly determined by the network's degree distribution. We rigorously prove that in a directed network without loops the control centrality of a node is uniquely determined...

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Published / Preprint: Universality, limits and predictability of winners' performances at the Olympic Games

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 05:13 AM PDT

Inspired by the legendary Games held in ancient Greece, modern Olympics represent the world's largest page 9a7 ant of athletic skill and competitive spirit. Athletes' performances at the Olympic Games mirror, since more than a century, human potentialities in sports, and thus provide an optimal source of information for studying the evolution of sport achievements and predicting the limits that...

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RT @LenCosta3rd: @CFAInstitute Take 15 Video Podcast: Trends in Algorithmic #Trading and Developments in #Asia http://t.co/NTifHiDP #quant

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 01:13 PM PDT

fin_tech: RT @LenCosta3rd: @CFAInstitute Take 15 Video Podcast: Trends in Algorithmic #Trading and Developments in #Asia http://t.co/NTifHiDP #quant

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