Thursday, January 24, 2013

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: Capitalism is dead, long live capitalism

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 04:28 AM PST

Following on from my previous two polemics:read more...

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Research Library: High-Frequency Trading and the Execution Costs of Institutional Investors (pdf)

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 04:21 AM PST

H/T @CarlCarrie on Twitter Jonathan Brogaard, Terrence Hendershott, Stefan Hunt, Torben Latza, Lucas Pedace, Carla Ysusi FSA OCCASIONAL PAPERS IN FINANCIAL REGULATION While some institutional investors are concerned that high frequency trading increases the cost of investing, others suggest that high frequency trading has been beneficial, for example by creating more accurate and faster...

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Blog Post: Falkenblog: Don't Innovate Too Much

Posted: 23 Jan 2013 08:25 PM PST

Dick Thaler gives out some advice to econ students: My advice for young researchers at the start of their career is… Work on your own ideas, not your advisor’s ideas (or at least in addition to her ideas). I think this is bad advice.  Kids love to think that they can do it all themselves in an Ayn Rand fantasy, independent of others.  Yet, to succeed is to succeed socially, because...

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Published / Preprint: DVA for Assets. (arXiv:1301.5425v1 [q-fin.PR])

Posted: 23 Jan 2013 05:44 PM PST

The effect of self-default on the valuation of liabilities and derivatives (DVA) has been widely discussed but the effect on assets has not received similar attention. Any asset whose value depends on the status, or existence, of the firm will have a DVA. We extend (Burgard and Kjaer 2011) to provide a hedging strategy for such assets and provide an in-depth example from the balance sheet...

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Published / Preprint: Model-independent no-arbitrage conditions on American put options. (arXiv:1301.5467v1 [q-fin.PR])

Posted: 23 Jan 2013 05:44 PM PST

We consider the pricing of American put options in a model-independent setting: that is, we do not assume that asset prices behave according to a given model, but aim to draw conclusions that hold in any model. We incorporate market information by supposing that the prices of European options are known. read more...

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Published / Preprint: Cash Flow Entropy. (arXiv:1301.5504v1 [q-fin.GN])

Posted: 23 Jan 2013 05:43 PM PST

In this paper we aim to find a measure for the diversity of cash flows between agents in an economy. We argue that cash flows can be linked to probabilities of finding a currency unit in a given cash flow. We then use the information entropy as a natural measure of diversity. This leads to a hirarchical inequality measure, which includes the well-known Theil index as a special case, and a...

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Published / Preprint: A model-free version of the fundamental theorem of asset pricing and the super-replication theorem. (arXiv:1301.5568v1 [math.PR])

Posted: 23 Jan 2013 05:43 PM PST

We propose a Fundamental Theorem of Asset Pricing and a Super-Replication Theorem in a model-independent framework. We prove these theorems in the setting of finite, discrete time and a market consisting of a risky asset S as well as options written on this risky asset. As a technical condition, we assume the existence of a traded option with a super-linearly growing payoff-function, e.g., a...

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Blog Post: iMFdirect: We May Have Avoided the Cliffs, But We Still Face High Mountains

Posted: 23 Jan 2013 01:49 PM PST

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Blog Post: WealthandCapitalMarketsBlog: IOSCO vs. SEC: one-all, ball in the centre

Posted: 23 Jan 2013 09:57 AM PST

Yesterday the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a public statement concerning the publication by the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) of the Final Report on “Suitability Requirements with respect to the Distribution of Complex Financial Products”, to underline they did not approve the final report and that they objected its...

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Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: On Insurance Investing, Part 1

Posted: 23 Jan 2013 06:46 AM PST

Shrinking the Share Countread more...

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SEC-mandated XBRL data at risk of being irrelevant to investors and analysts

Posted: 23 Jan 2013 06:42 AM PST

In 2009, the Securities and Exchange Commission mandated that public companies submit portions of annual (10-K) and quarterly (10-Q) reports—in a digitized format known as eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL). The goal of this type of data was to provide more relevant, timely, and reliable "interactive" data to investors and analysts. The XBRL-formatted data is meant to allow users...

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Vendor News: SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator

Posted: 23 Jan 2013 06:00 AM PST