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- Blog Post: FINalternatives: RBC Hedge 250 Index Adds 0.36% In March
- Blog Post: TheReformedBroker: Generic Paragraph You Will See Every Morning this Spring
- Blog Post: mathfinance: Free Historical Intra-Daily Data
- Blog Post: TalesfromaTradingDesk: Software AG Acquires my-Channels for Universal Messaging Technology
- Blog Post: HighFrequencyTradingReview: CA Cheuvreux launches equities platform [Financial Times]
- RT @MadameButcher: On eFinancialCareers: Insights into what it's like to work in equity research at Goldman Sachs http://t.co/bGCLZqh8
- RT @_FinancialWorld: How we will stop derivatives magnifying future crises - http://t.co/UnciQdCL - Opinion http://t.co/YJjzmusd
- Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: Barclays Bank: innovators do win more business
- Blog Post: WealthandCapitalMarketsBlog: A politically correct new Equity MTF
- Blog Post: RobertPestonBlog: More than 70% of high earners paid 50% tax rate
- Published / Preprint: 16Apr/New standards for financial market infrastructures issued by CPSS-IOSCO
- Blog Post: TheMonetaryFuture: Virtual Currency Exchange First Meta Closes $466,000 Funding Round
- The Financial Education Daily is out! http://t.co/TYlzia3F
- Blog Post: ThreeToedSloth: Graphical Causal Models (Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View)
- Blog Post: AllAboutAlpha: EDHEC: SWFs and Their Implicit Liabilities
- Blog Post: Falkenblog: Is Intelligence Good?
- Blog Post: EconometricsBeat: The Popularity of Statistical Packages
- No surprises here: Meme proliferation on #Twitter is arbitrary http://t.co/ZNTVyTHT #tcm
- RT @chaosnet3: Singularly Complex. The Catch with Hybrid Finance http://t.co/UwxIMPu7 via @bigthink
- RT @ProfSteveKeen: My talk at #inetberlin: Minskian perspective on financial market instability http://t.co/0F7BVFPg
- Blog Post: Debtwatch: INET Presentation: Minskian Perspective on Instability in Financial Markets
- Blog Post: ThePracticalQuant: Private Equity 30-year performance: Buyout and Venture Capital
- Blog Post: QuantPythonista: The need for an embedded array expression compiler for NumPy
- Not a great article: "Public No More: Why the B-School Model Works" http://t.co/QZ8XiVk8
- Harvard #MBA startup to sell classmates' admissions essays http://t.co/9oyu2qI2
- Business Skills and Buddhist Mindfulness: Some Exec-Education Profs teach Students to calm minds, increase focus http://t.co/SV9cJZEZ
- A new dean named to oversee Penn State's Smeal College of Business http://t.co/TU19EXWh
- Business School Architecture and Design: Design principles directed towards a tangible value proposition http://t.co/JsWqu8Ky
- An #MBA will take a lot out of you - and not just financially. So before you apply, make sure itâs what you really want http://t.co/qmYRzTLW
- Business schools are encouraging students to start early and be active on Linkedin - http://t.co/MSRzV13U
- The way B-schools are teaching has changed, hence the need for changing the GMAT format - http://t.co/FLVdRqCA
- More than 20% of U.S. undergraduates are business majors - http://t.co/a5YFF3Ig
- Pundits and young professionals alike are wondering if grad school is still worth the hefty investment - http://t.co/pQWx9rmC
- A New Twist in B-School Recruiting - http://t.co/rZLikYHM
- Bloomberg - Businessweek plans new series of #MBA Journals. Further Info: http://t.co/bhJFYl7b
- Financial Technology News Report is out! http://t.co/Jdseecpa : Top stories today via @claradan @nanexllc @louislovas
- Event: Structured Financial Data in the Age of Complexity: Exploring XBRL use and application Today and into the Future
- Event: Capital Allocation
| Blog Post: FINalternatives: RBC Hedge 250 Index Adds 0.36% In March Posted: 16 Apr 2012 05:06 AM PDT RBC Capital Markets says its hedge fund indexâ€"the RBC Hedge 250 Indexâ€"had an estimated net return of 0.36% in March, bringing its year-to-date return to 3.35%.read more... Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.      |
| Blog Post: TheReformedBroker: Generic Paragraph You Will See Every Morning this Spring Posted: 16 Apr 2012 04:00 AM PDT What's happening with the market? The same thing every day to varying degrees - a three-way tug o' war between the triumvirate of pressing issues [...] Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| Blog Post: mathfinance: Free Historical Intra-Daily Data Posted: 16 Apr 2012 03:33 AM PDT The last decade we have seen a significant increase in the demand for high frequency data. This is explained for a large part by an increased attention of the academic world in algoritmic trading. Moreover, as lot of papers suggest, the profitability has been shifted to an intra-daily format. In this segment, speed is what counts. For instance, Scholtus and Van Dijk (2012) state that strategies... Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| Posted: 16 Apr 2012 03:28 AM PDT Read all about it here.read more... Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| Blog Post: HighFrequencyTradingReview: CA Cheuvreux launches equities platform [Financial Times] Posted: 16 Apr 2012 03:04 AM PDT By Philip Staffordread more... Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| Posted: 16 Apr 2012 02:22 AM PDT moneyscience: RT @MadameButcher: On eFinancialCareers: Insights into what it’s like to work in equity research at Goldman Sachs http://t.co/bGCLZqh8 Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| Posted: 16 Apr 2012 02:22 AM PDT moneyscience: RT @_FinancialWorld: How we will stop derivatives magnifying future crises - http://t.co/UnciQdCL - Opinion http://t.co/YJjzmusd Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: Barclays Bank: innovators do win more business Posted: 16 Apr 2012 02:03 AM PDT We seemingly spend all of our time bashing banks these days, me included. read more... Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| Blog Post: WealthandCapitalMarketsBlog: A politically correct new Equity MTF Posted: 16 Apr 2012 01:27 AM PDT CA Cheuvreux, the agency broker owned by Crédit Agricole, will this week relaunch Blink, its broker-crossing network, as a multilateral trading facility (MTF) aimed at institutional investors and retail. The Blink-MTF will trade 1,700 stocks across 14 European markets, after receiving approval from UK authorities.read more... Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| Blog Post: RobertPestonBlog: More than 70% of high earners paid 50% tax rate Posted: 16 Apr 2012 01:26 AM PDT When Labour was in power, it was a nightmare trying to obtain reliable data on the real tax burden for those on very high incomes (there's a big chunk of the last book wot I wrote about whether the super-rich pay their fair share: the word "blood" and "stone" come to mind).read more... Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| Published / Preprint: 16Apr/New standards for financial market infrastructures issued by CPSS-IOSCO Posted: 16 Apr 2012 01:06 AM PDT Press release about CPSS and IOSCO publishing new standards for financial market infrastructures (BIS Press Release 16 April 2012) Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| Blog Post: TheMonetaryFuture: Virtual Currency Exchange First Meta Closes $466,000 Funding Round Posted: 16 Apr 2012 12:45 AM PDT By Jon Matonis Forbes Tuesday, April 10, 2012 http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/04/10/virtual-currency-exchange-first-meta-closes-466000-funding-round/ In a little-discussed announcement, First Meta took in nearly half-a-million dollars for the expansion of its multi-world virtual currency exchange. Singapore-based First Meta is unique in that they have consistently provided a... Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| The Financial Education Daily is out! http://t.co/TYlzia3F Posted: 16 Apr 2012 12:25 AM PDT BusinessSchools: The Financial Education Daily is out! http://t.co/TYlzia3F Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| Posted: 15 Apr 2012 05:46 PM PDT Probabilistic prediction is about passively selecting a sub-ensemble, leaving all the mechanisms in place, and seeing what turns up after applying that filter. Causal prediction is about actively producing a new ensemble, and seeing what would happen if something were to change ("counterfactuals"). Graphical causal models are a way of reasoning about causal prediction; their algebraic... Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| Blog Post: AllAboutAlpha: EDHEC: SWFs and Their Implicit Liabilities Posted: 15 Apr 2012 05:17 PM PDT SWFs are distinct from pension funds at least in this sense, there are broadly speaking no explicit liabilities. There is no ongoing schedule of payments an SWF is responsible for making, for example. Nonetheless, there are clearly implicit liabilities. On this the point nearly all (92 percent) of survey respondents concurred, saying that implicit liabilities, arising from the objectives of the... Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| Blog Post: Falkenblog: Is Intelligence Good? Posted: 15 Apr 2012 01:43 PM PDT Intelligence, as measured by IQ tests, is at least 50% heritable and positively correlated with better socioeconomic outcomes in education, income, health, and crime. It may seem obvious that you want your kids to be smarter. Satoshi Kanazawa makes an intriguing point in his book The Intelligence Paradox that it is not so simple:Yes, intelligent people make better physicians, astronauts, better... Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| Blog Post: EconometricsBeat: The Popularity of Statistical Packages Posted: 15 Apr 2012 12:49 PM PDT No matter what your favourite statistical package is, you'll find this post by Robert Muenchen highly informative. Robert concludes that: "By most of the measures discussed here, R is competing well with the commercial software vendors. However, I advise not over generalizing from this data. SAS and SPSS continue to dominate the corporate world and Stata is doing quite well in the scholarly... Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| No surprises here: Meme proliferation on #Twitter is arbitrary http://t.co/ZNTVyTHT #tcm Posted: 15 Apr 2012 09:49 AM PDT moneyscience: No surprises here: Meme proliferation on #Twitter is arbitrary http://t.co/ZNTVyTHT #tcm Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| RT @chaosnet3: Singularly Complex. The Catch with Hybrid Finance http://t.co/UwxIMPu7 via @bigthink Posted: 15 Apr 2012 09:49 AM PDT moneyscience: RT @chaosnet3: Singularly Complex. The Catch with Hybrid Finance http://t.co/UwxIMPu7 via @bigthink Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| Posted: 15 Apr 2012 09:49 AM PDT moneyscience: RT @ProfSteveKeen: My talk at #inetberlin: Minskian perspective on financial market instability http://t.co/0F7BVFPg Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| Blog Post: Debtwatch: INET Presentation: Minskian Perspective on Instability in Financial Markets Posted: 15 Apr 2012 09:35 AM PDT Below is the video of my talk at INET’s Berlin 2012 conference. The other videos for the conference are available from INET’s website: Day 1; Day 2; Day 3. Bearing in mind that I didn’t see all presentations,  my favourite talks (in delivery order) were those by: George Soros; Gerd Gigerenzer; Axel Leijonhufvud; Michael Hudson; Yanis Varoufakis; Dirk Bezemer; and […]... Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| Blog Post: ThePracticalQuant: Private Equity 30-year performance: Buyout and Venture Capital Posted: 15 Apr 2012 09:34 AM PDT A recent paper inspired me to put together a series of charts that detail the market-adjusted and absolute performance of private equity (both buyout and venture capital). I have to say the performance numbers for Venture Capital were unimpressive: most of the gains over the last three decades were from late 1990's vintage funds. The average VC underperformed the S&P 500 in 16 of 29 years covered... Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| Blog Post: QuantPythonista: The need for an embedded array expression compiler for NumPy Posted: 15 Apr 2012 08:52 AM PDT Yesterday I found myself adding some additional Cython methods for doing fast grouped aggregations in pandas. To my disappointment, I found myself duplicating a lot of code and not having much alternative beyond cooking up some kind of ad hoc …Read more » Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| Not a great article: "Public No More: Why the B-School Model Works" http://t.co/QZ8XiVk8 Posted: 15 Apr 2012 06:46 AM PDT BusinessSchools: Not a great article: "Public No More: Why the B-School Model Works" http://t.co/QZ8XiVk8 Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| Harvard #MBA startup to sell classmates' admissions essays http://t.co/9oyu2qI2 Posted: 15 Apr 2012 06:46 AM PDT BusinessSchools: Harvard #MBA startup to sell classmates' admissions essays http://t.co/9oyu2qI2 Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| Posted: 15 Apr 2012 06:46 AM PDT BusinessSchools: Business Skills and Buddhist Mindfulness: Some Exec-Education Profs teach Students to calm minds, increase focus http://t.co/SV9cJZEZ Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| A new dean named to oversee Penn State's Smeal College of Business http://t.co/TU19EXWh Posted: 15 Apr 2012 06:46 AM PDT BusinessSchools: A new dean named to oversee Penn State's Smeal College of Business http://t.co/TU19EXWh Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| Posted: 15 Apr 2012 06:46 AM PDT BusinessSchools: Business School Architecture and Design: Design principles directed towards a tangible value proposition http://t.co/JsWqu8Ky Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| Posted: 15 Apr 2012 06:46 AM PDT BusinessSchools: An #MBA will take a lot out of you - and not just financially. So before you apply, make sure it’s what you really want http://t.co/qmYRzTLW Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| Posted: 15 Apr 2012 06:46 AM PDT BusinessSchools: Business schools are encouraging students to start early and be active on Linkedin - http://t.co/MSRzV13U Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| Posted: 15 Apr 2012 06:46 AM PDT BusinessSchools: The way B-schools are teaching has changed, hence the need for changing the GMAT format - http://t.co/FLVdRqCA Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| More than 20% of U.S. undergraduates are business majors - http://t.co/a5YFF3Ig Posted: 15 Apr 2012 06:46 AM PDT BusinessSchools: More than 20% of U.S. undergraduates are business majors - http://t.co/a5YFF3Ig Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| Posted: 15 Apr 2012 06:46 AM PDT BusinessSchools: Pundits and young professionals alike are wondering if grad school is still worth the hefty investment - http://t.co/pQWx9rmC Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| A New Twist in B-School Recruiting - http://t.co/rZLikYHM Posted: 15 Apr 2012 06:00 AM PDT BusinessSchools: A New Twist in B-School Recruiting - http://t.co/rZLikYHM Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| Bloomberg - Businessweek plans new series of #MBA Journals. Further Info: http://t.co/bhJFYl7b Posted: 15 Apr 2012 06:00 AM PDT BusinessSchools: Bloomberg - Businessweek plans new series of #MBA Journals. Further Info: http://t.co/bhJFYl7b Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| Posted: 15 Apr 2012 05:55 AM PDT fin_tech: Financial Technology News Report is out! http://t.co/Jdseecpa â–¸ Top stories today via @claradan @nanexllc @louislovas Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| Posted: 29 Mar 2012 11:01 PM PDT Location: Boston, MA, USA; Date: April 30th, 2012; Suffolk University, Sargent Hall, 120 Tremont Street, Bostonread more... Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| Posted: 29 Mar 2012 09:29 AM PDT Location: New York, NY; Date: April 18th, 2012; 6:00 pm - 9:00 pmread more... Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
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