Thursday, March 29, 2012

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: Things worth reading: 29th March 2012

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 04:11 AM PDT

Things we're reading today include ...read more...

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Blog Post: RobertPestonBlog: Is the UK's nuclear future in jeopardy?

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 03:46 AM PDT

The energy minister Charles Hendry admits that the withdrawal of the German energy giants E.ON and RWE from a big nuclear power project in Anglesey is "clearly very disappointing".read more...

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Blog Post: HighFrequencyTradingReview: Quantitative Trading, Adversity To Alpha

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 03:36 AM PDT

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Published / Preprint: Derivatives pricing with marked point processes using tick-by-tick data

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 02:39 AM PDT

Quantitative Finance, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page 1-13, Ahead of Print.

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Published / Preprint: The payoff distribution model: an application to dynamic portfolio insurance

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 02:39 AM PDT

Quantitative Finance, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page 1-14, Ahead of Print.

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Published / Preprint: On the role of risk in the Morningstar rating for mutual funds

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 02:39 AM PDT

Quantitative Finance, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page 1-10, Ahead of Print.

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Published / Preprint: Risk premiums in a simple market model for implied volatility

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 02:39 AM PDT

Quantitative Finance, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page 1-10, Ahead of Print.

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Published / Preprint: Predicting abnormal returns from news using text classification

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 02:39 AM PDT

Quantitative Finance, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page 1-14, Ahead of Print.

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Published / Preprint: Skewed exchange-rate forecasts

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 02:34 AM PDT

The European Journal of Finance, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page 1-15, Ahead of Print.

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Blog Post: PatrickBurns: Maximum weight of the low vol cohorts

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 01:34 AM PDT

Maximum weight was constrained to 4% at the start of 2007, how does that grow when unhindered?read more...

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Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: Why Auditors Should be Rotated

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 01:16 AM PDT

There is a proposal afoot to mandate auditor rotation every fiver years or so.  Some don’t like it.  I think it is a great idea, with large benefits relative to the costs.read more...

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

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 12:41 AM PDT

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

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Here's an unexpected narrative: "Women executives in banks prone to more risk taking, says study" http://t.co/0kH2IWev #tcm

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 11:02 PM PDT

moneyscience: Here's an unexpected narrative: "Women executives in banks prone to more risk taking, says study" http://t.co/0kH2IWev #tcm

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UK Financial institutions received more than 12,000 complaints a day in the second half of 2011 http://t.co/XGUydU3q #tcm

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 11:02 PM PDT

moneyscience: UK Financial institutions received more than 12,000 complaints a day in the second half of 2011 http://t.co/XGUydU3q #tcm

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There is a strong case for keeping RBS in public hands and directing it to regenerate the UK economy http://t.co/kpvHcVX1 #tcm

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 11:02 PM PDT

moneyscience: There is a strong case for keeping RBS in public hands and directing it to regenerate the UK economy http://t.co/kpvHcVX1 #tcm

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"There is disaster risk almost everywhere." - http://t.co/wTrw72cF The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issues a new report #tcm

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 11:02 PM PDT

moneyscience: "There is disaster risk almost everywhere." - http://t.co/wTrw72cF The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issues a new report #tcm

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Research Library: How to Prevent Other Financial Crises

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 10:37 PM PDT

Nassim Nicholas Taleb NYU-Poly George A. Martin affiliation not provided to SSRN School of Advanced International Studies Review, Forthcoming Abstract Policy recommendations to avoid additional crises, focused on "less is more" simple rule of "captain goes down with ship." These aim at eliminating the combination of statistical moral hazard and scientism-misuse of probabilistic methods that...

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Blog Post: TheMonetaryFuture: Bitcoin Doesn't Need a Dongle

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 09:23 PM PDT

By Jon Matonis Forbes Saturday, March 24, 2012 http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/03/24/bitcoin-doesnt-need-a-dongle/ There's a lot of talk about dongles recently. Square has always relied on a dongle and now PayPal is sporting a fancy triangle-shaped dongle, nicknamed the 'Blue Dorito'. Both of these dongles equip your mobile phone to accept and process credit cards securely by...

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Blog Post: TalesfromaTradingDesk: EC2 Trading Platforms: Quantopian

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 08:13 PM PDT

Ernie’s 2011 posting on “Trading platform and EC2 revisited” offers thoughts on Quantopian cloud platform:read more...

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Published / Preprint: Eigenvector dynamics: general theory and some applications. (arXiv:1203.6228v1 [cond-mat.stat-mech])

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 05:33 PM PDT

We propose a general framework to study the stability of the subspace spanned by $P$ consecutive eigenvectors of a generic symmetric matrix ${\bf H}_0$, when a small perturbation is added. This problem is relevant in various contexts, including quantum dissipation (${\bf H}_0$ is then the Hamiltonian) and financial risk control (in which case ${\bf H}_0$ is the assets...

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Blog Post: AllAboutAlpha: U.S. Rejoins the Globe, Say Consultants

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 05:08 PM PDT

Consultants expect that managers' need to generate steady income in a low interest rate environment will drive a lot of portfolio turnover in 2012, inclusive of the movement of alternatives into core positions within portfolios, and it will drive one-time U.S. focused investors and managers to look abroad. Meanwhile, pensions are retreating toward passive mandates.

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Blog Post: TheReformedBroker: Pics from the Book Party

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 04:19 PM PDT

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Blog Post: FINalternatives: Gupta Loses Wiretap Bid, Will Get SEC Notes

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 09:59 AM PDT

Like every insider-trading defendant before him ensnared in the Justice Department's current crackdown, Rajat Gupta has failed to have wiretap evidence thrown out of his fraud case.read more...

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RT @graeme_burnett: Bittware's Anemone104 64 core coprocessor for #fpga #hft http://t.co/hRDAgIgV it's like #nsfw for hardware fetishists

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 07:21 AM PDT

fin_tech: RT @graeme_burnett: Bittware's Anemone104 64 core coprocessor for #fpga #hft http://t.co/hRDAgIgV it's like #nsfw for hardware fetishists

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Blog Post: iMFdirect: Disappearing Deficits

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 07:12 AM PDT

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Financial Technology News Report is out! http://t.co/Jdseecpa : Top stories today via @dorothyfriedman @wallstreettech @informaticacorp

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 05:58 AM PDT

fin_tech: Financial Technology News Report is out! http://t.co/Jdseecpa â–¸ Top stories today via @dorothyfriedman @wallstreettech @informaticacorp

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