Friday, April 20, 2012

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Millionaire leaves his company to benefit the community http://t.co/urEWG9G8 #tcm

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 03:38 AM PDT

moneyscience: Millionaire leaves his company to benefit the community http://t.co/urEWG9G8 #tcm

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Fiscal austerity and policy credibility - http://t.co/HSzcsEuL #tcm

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 03:38 AM PDT

moneyscience: Fiscal austerity and policy credibility - http://t.co/HSzcsEuL #tcm

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Rethinking the Business Major - http://t.co/k1XsV9LR

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 03:26 AM PDT

BusinessSchools: Rethinking the Business Major - http://t.co/k1XsV9LR

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RT @carlcarrie: Paper on limit order book dynamics (e.g. price formation, duration) #LOM #LOB #HFT http://t.co/ij7SNxDW

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 02:55 AM PDT

moneyscience: RT @carlcarrie: Paper on limit order book dynamics (e.g. price formation, duration) #LOM #LOB #HFT http://t.co/ij7SNxDW

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Research Library: Towards Real-Time Summarization of Scheduled Events from Twitter Streams

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 02:53 AM PDT

Arkaitz Zubiaga, Damiano Spina, Enrique Amigó, Julio Gonzalo   Abstract This paper explores the real-time summarization of scheduled events such as soccer games from torrential flows of Twitter streams. We propose and evaluate an approach that substantially shrinks the stream of tweets in real-time, and consists of two steps: (i) sub-event detection, which determines if...

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Blog Post: mathfinance: Top Hedge Fund in London Week in Review

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 02:28 AM PDT

A Generalized Measure of Riskiness: a generalized options’ implied measure of riskiness based on the risk neutral return distribution of financial securities is able to provide asset allocation implications and successfully predict the cross section of 1-, 3-, 6-, and 12-month ahead risk-adjusted returns of individual stocks. Identifying financial crises in real time: we develop a new measure...

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Video - Andrew Haldane: Creating a Socially Useful Financial System

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 02:27 AM PDT

Andrew Haldane, Executive Director for Financial Stability, Bank of England, speaking at the breakout panel entitled "How Can We Create a Financial System That Is Socially Useful?" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's (INET) Paradigm Lost Conference in Berlin. April 14, 2012.read more...

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: Of all the world's banks, UK banks must be the most anti-social

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 02:07 AM PDT

I was asked to talk about the role of social media in banking this week, and was a little irritated by the question.read more...

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Blog Post: RobertPestonBlog: Barclays 'fails to win over pay critics'

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 01:42 AM PDT

Big British pension funds and insurance companies are still planning to vote against Barclays' remuneration policy and the re-election of the chair of the remuneration committee, in spite of pay reforms offered yesterday by the bank.read more...

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Blog Post: HighFrequencyTradingReview: Into the cloud - the new evolution in trading [FTSE Global Markets]

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 01:32 AM PDT

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

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 12:43 AM PDT

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

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Blog Post: FINalternatives: RenTech Rolls Out $3.5 Billion Fund, First In Five Years

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 11:43 PM PDT

Renaissance Technologies' first new hedge fund in five years is up and running, with $3.5 billion in initial assets.read more...

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Blog Post: Debtwatch: Demand Side Economics

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 11:34 PM PDT

A new book called Demand Side Economics, by Alan Harvey, has been released. It dealing with some of the visionary thinkers behind changing conventional economic theory for the better. Alan introduces the book saying: ‘The purpose of this book is to lay out an economics that makes sense of history, including the revolutionary history of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

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Hacker Posts Details of 3 Million Iranian Bank Accounts - http://t.co/W9Gia5xR #tcm

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 11:19 PM PDT

fin_tech: Hacker Posts Details of 3 Million Iranian Bank Accounts - http://t.co/W9Gia5xR #tcm

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Published / Preprint: Scaling and multiscaling in financial series: a simple model. (arXiv:1006.0155v2 [q-fin.ST] UPDATED)

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 05:33 PM PDT

We propose a simple stochastic volatility model which is analytically tractable, very easy to simulate and which captures some relevant stylized facts of financial assets, including scaling properties. In particular, the model displays a crossover in the log-return distribution from power-law tails (small time) to a Gaussian behavior (large time), slow decay in the volatility autocorrelation and...

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Blog Post: AllAboutAlpha: Finding Alpha in Israel's Emerging Market

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 05:16 PM PDT

Israel is now second only to the United States in terms of venture capital funds, with the highest rate of start-up businesses per capita and also the highest ratio of university degrees to population anywhere in the world.

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Blog Post: MoneyManagersLive: Market In Rally Mode

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 03:58 PM PDT

Stock markets around the world rallied strongly during the first quarter of 2012. After the extreme volatility last year, many investors abandoned ship and headed for the hills...just in time to miss this entire rally. The irony is that selling to "protect" actually cost them dearly. This rally has confounded many. Market experts have called for a selloff ever since last November. In the face...

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Blog Post: EconometricsBeat: Extremes, the Generalized Pareto Distribution, and MLE

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 03:27 PM PDT

In a recent post I discussed some of my work relating to modelling extreme values in various economic data-sets. The work that my colleagues and I have been undertaking focuses on the use of the Generalized Pareto distribution (GPD). The estimation of the parameters of this model facilitates estimates of Value at Risk (VaR) and Expected Shortfall (ES). There are various ways of estimating...

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Blog Post: FinanceClippings: Correlation is not causation

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 03:00 PM PDT

Here's a listing of the 15 strong and spurious market correlations.  For example GM stock has a 0.97 correlation coefficient with stocks that purify water.   The point - even a virtual 1:1 correlation doesn't imply causation.

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Blog Post: TheReformedBroker: Secret to Life Venn Diagram

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 12:24 PM PDT

Chart.

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Vendor News: Portfolio Probe version 1.04 released

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 12:21 PM PDT

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Blog Post: QFINANCE: QFINANCE: News Briefing (April 13' 19, 2012)

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 09:48 AM PDT

Blog Post: TimingLogic: Supreme Court Rules Corporations Are Not People In Terms Of Torture Liabilities, Only In Terms Of Torture Rights

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 07:45 AM PDT

The Supreme Court is clearly as nonsensical as is the legislative and executive branch in its interpretation of its rights & laws and its abuse of power.  I’m very curious about how this health care debacle will play out. “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their JUST powers from the consent of the governed, â€" That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive...

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Value for money in public-private partnerships yet to be proven

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 07:43 AM PDT

Blog Post: BCMstrategy: Validation

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 06:04 AM PDT

Six months ago, clients and subscribers to The Risk Telescope were alerted to building centrifugal forces placing pressure on global and euro area economic integration that took generations to build.  Six months ago as well, clients and subscribers to The Risk Telescope were alerted to looming supply and demand pressures in the high-rated sovereign bond sector.  At the end of the year, The Risk...

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Financial Technology News Report is out! http://t.co/Jdseecpa : Top stories today via @matlab @cebtowergroup @streambase @alyssa4ar

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 05:54 AM PDT

fin_tech: Financial Technology News Report is out! http://t.co/Jdseecpa â–¸ Top stories today via @matlab @cebtowergroup @streambase @alyssa4ar

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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)

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Published / Preprint: Rollover Risk and Credit Risk

Posted: 14 Apr 2012 03:33 AM PDT

ABSTRACTOur model shows that deterioration in debt market liquidity leads to an increase in not only the liquidity premium of corporate bonds but also credit risk. The latter effect originates from firms’ debt rollover. When liquidity deterioration causes a firm to suffer losses in rolling over its maturing debt, equity holders bear the losses while maturing debt holders are paid in full. This...

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Published / Preprint: Are Stocks Really Less Volatile in the Long Run?

Posted: 14 Apr 2012 03:33 AM PDT

ABSTRACTAccording to conventional wisdom, annualized volatility of stock returns is lower over long horizons than over short horizons, due to mean reversion induced by return predictability. In contrast, we find that stocks are substantially more volatile over long horizons from an investor’s perspective. This perspective recognizes that parameters are uncertain, even with two centuries of...

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Published / Preprint: The Secondary Market for Hedge Funds and the Closed Hedge Fund Premium

Posted: 14 Apr 2012 03:33 AM PDT

ABSTRACTRational theories of the closed‐end fund premium puzzle highlight fund share and asset illiquidity, managerial ability, and fees as important determinants of the premium. Several of these attributes are difficult to measure for mutual funds, and easier to measure for hedge funds. This paper employs new data from a secondary market for hedge funds, discovers a closed‐hedge fund premium...

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