Wednesday, April 3, 2013

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The Financial Analysis of Islamic Financial Institutions

Posted: 03 Apr 2013 02:42 AM PDT

The module provides students with the knowledge required to analyse financial information on Islamic banks and insurance undertakings. Students will develop the skills enabling them to make judgements regarding the financial position and performance of Islamic banks and insurance companies. Outline content: The financial statements of Islamic banks and insurance undertakings The differences...

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: The Fifth Clearing & Settlement Plenary Meeting

Posted: 03 Apr 2013 12:52 AM PDT

We had our fifth plenary meeting of the Clearing & Settlement Working Group (CAS-WG) in March.read more...

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Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: The Education of an Investment Risk Manager, Part V

Posted: 03 Apr 2013 12:02 AM PDT

One thing that came out of our “employee empowerment project” was a need to improve our equity and bond fund offerings.  At the same time, a fund manager manager [FMM] came out of the woodwork and suggested to us that we could do multiple manager funds.  They had analyzed many managers and had found some that they thought were great.read more...

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Published / Preprint: Premiums And Reserves, Adjusted By Distortions. (arXiv:1304.0490v1 [q-fin.RM])

Posted: 02 Apr 2013 05:36 PM PDT

The net-premium principle is considered to be the most genuine and fair premium principle in actuarial applications. However, an insurance company, applying the net-premium principle, goes bankrupt with probability one in the long run, even if the company covers its entire costs by collecting the respective fees from its customers. It is therefore an intrinsic necessity for the insurance industry...

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Published / Preprint: A Peer-based Model of Fat-tailed Outcomes. (arXiv:1304.0718v1 [q-fin.TR])

Posted: 02 Apr 2013 05:36 PM PDT

It is well known that the distribution of returns from various financial instruments are leptokurtic, meaning that the distributions have "fatter tails" than a Normal distribution, and have skew toward zero. This paper presents a graceful micro-level explanation for such fat-tailed outcomes, using agents whose private valuations have Normally-distributed errors, but whose utility function...

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Blog Post: iMFdirect: Scenes From A Central Bank: A Turkish Tale in Two Acts

Posted: 02 Apr 2013 06:52 AM PDT

By Robert Tchaidze and Heiko Hesse read more...

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