Monday, June 18, 2012

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ICMA Centre ranked in the world top 25 by the Financial Times

Posted: 18 Jun 2012 03:28 AM PDT

The Financial Times Global Masters in Finance 2012 has ranked Henley Business School’s ICMA Centre in the top 25 in the world. The Centre and its flagship MSc International Securities, Investment and Banking programme (ISIB) sits amongst the top finance schools and programmes in the world for the second year in a row. The FT ranking evaluates alumni career progressContinue reading

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Vendor News: Fidessa explores new reality facing sell-side firms today

Posted: 18 Jun 2012 01:37 AM PDT

The Financial Education Daily is out! http://t.co/TYluKzUv

Posted: 18 Jun 2012 12:39 AM PDT

BusinessSchools: The Financial Education Daily is out! http://t.co/TYluKzUv

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: Things worth reading: 18th June 2012

Posted: 17 Jun 2012 11:44 PM PDT

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Blog Post: Falkenblog: Is Spitznagel an Apostate?

Posted: 17 Jun 2012 06:19 PM PDT

Mark Spitznagel, former employee of Nassim Taleb, has run the Universa Hedge fund for a while and seems to be doing quite well for himself (he bought Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony's old home in Bel Air). What his returns have been I don't know, but they are always reported second-hand when vol spikes (as usual regulation is the opposite of helpful here, discouraging hedge fund reporting that...

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Published / Preprint: International trade of flowers. Tendencies and policies. (arXiv:1206.3384v1 [q-fin.GN])

Posted: 17 Jun 2012 05:32 PM PDT

There are few papers about the international trade of flowers, so it is believed that this paper, with this topic, could be an important contribution to the international scientific community. It is intended to analyze if the international trade flowers tendencies and policies are adapted to the actual world global context. For that it was used data about the import and export of flowers, in...

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Published / Preprint: International trade of fruits between Portugal and the world. (arXiv:1206.3385v1 [q-fin.GN])

Posted: 17 Jun 2012 05:32 PM PDT

For Portugal there are few or none works about the international trade of fruits between Portugal and the other countries. In this work it aims to analyze the more recent data for the Portuguese international trade of fruits. They were used data for the years from 2006 to 2010, available by the INE (Statistics Portugal), gently given by the AICEP (Trade & Investment Agency). To complement...

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Published / Preprint: Import and export of horticultural products in Portugal. (arXiv:1206.3387v1 [q-fin.GN])

Posted: 17 Jun 2012 05:32 PM PDT

With this work it is analyzed the import and export of horticultural products between Portugal and the other world countries. It is used data about Portuguese international trade of vegetables from 2006 to 2010. The data were obtained from the INE (Statistics Portugal), gently given by the AICEP (Trade & Investment Agency). It is did some estimations taking into account the models from the...

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Published / Preprint: State-independent importance sampling for regularly varying random walks. (arXiv:1206.3390v1 [math.PR])

Posted: 17 Jun 2012 05:32 PM PDT

Efficient simulation of rare events involving sums of heavy-tailed random variables has been an active research area in applied probability in the last fifteen years.These rare events arise in many applications including telecommunications, computer and communication networks, insurance and finance. These problems are viewed as challenging, since large deviations theory inspired and exponential...

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MoneyScience Daily is out! http://t.co/yz3uYqFU : Top stories today via @tomforemski @actuary21c @ATabarrok

Posted: 17 Jun 2012 07:51 AM PDT

moneyscience: MoneyScience Daily is out! http://t.co/yz3uYqFU â–¸ Top stories today via @tomforemski @actuary21c @ATabarrok

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Financial Technology News Report is out! http://t.co/Jds9GCg0 : Top stories today via @Equinix @moneyscience @fincad

Posted: 17 Jun 2012 05:49 AM PDT

fin_tech: Financial Technology News Report is out! http://t.co/Jds9GCg0 â–¸ Top stories today via @Equinix @moneyscience @fincad

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Blog Post: iMFdirect: Latin America: Riding the Global Financial Waves

Posted: 17 Jun 2012 05:06 AM PDT

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