Friday, June 21, 2013

MoneyScience News

MoneyScience News


Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: The customer is ... not always right

Posted: 21 Jun 2013 02:41 AM PDT

I just found a great website called Not Always Right that tells the staff side of humorous or challenging customer experiences in the USA.read more...

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Vendor News: June 21, 2013 - SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator: June notifications 3.88%

Posted: 21 Jun 2013 01:08 AM PDT

Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: Efficient Markets versus Ben Bernanke

Posted: 20 Jun 2013 11:29 PM PDT

I’ve looked around for a transcript for Bernanke’s press conference, and I can’t find one.  Here’s my gripe, and I mentioned briefly at the end of last night’s article.read more...

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Published / Preprint: Valuation and hedging of OTC contracts with funding costs, collateralization and counterparty credit risk: Part 1. (arXiv:1306.4733v1 [q-fin.PR])

Posted: 20 Jun 2013 05:38 PM PDT

The research presented in this work is motivated by some recent papers regarding hedging and valuation of financial securities subject to funding costs, collateralization and counterparty credit risk. Our goal is to provide a sound theoretical underpinning for some results presented in these papers by developing a unified martingale framework for the non-linear approach to hedging and pricing of...

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Published / Preprint: Evolution of correlation structure of industrial indices of US equity markets. (arXiv:1306.4769v1 [q-fin.ST])

Posted: 20 Jun 2013 05:38 PM PDT

We investigate the dynamics of correlations present between pairs of industry indices of US stocks traded in US markets by studying correlation based networks and spectral properties of the correlation matrix. The study is performed by using 49 industry index time series computed by K. French and E. Fama during the time period from July 1969 to December 2011 that is spanning more than 40 years....

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Published / Preprint: Hedging and Leveraging: Principal Portfolios of the Capital Asset Pricing Model. (arXiv:1306.4958v1 [q-fin.PM])

Posted: 20 Jun 2013 05:38 PM PDT

The principal portfolios of the standard Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) are analyzed and found to have remarkable hedging and leveraging properties. Principal portfolios implement a recasting of any correlated asset set of N risky securities into an equivalent but uncorrelated set when short sales are allowed. While a determination of principal portfolios in general requires a detailed...

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Published / Preprint: A Stochastic Feedback Model for Volatility. (arXiv:1306.4975v1 [q-fin.ST])

Posted: 20 Jun 2013 05:38 PM PDT

Financial time series exhibit a number of interesting properties that are difficult to explain with simple models. These properties include fat-tails in the distribution of price fluctuations (or returns) that are slowly removed at longer timescales, strong autocorrelations in absolute returns but zero autocorrelation in returns themselves, and multifractal scaling. Although the underlying cause...

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Published / Preprint: On the time spent in the red by a refracted L\'evy risk process. (arXiv:1306.4619v1 [math.PR] CROSS LISTED)

Posted: 20 Jun 2013 05:38 PM PDT

In this paper, we introduce an insurance ruin model with adaptive premium rate, thereafter refered to as restructuring/refraction, in which classical ruin and bankruptcy are distinguished. In this model, the premium rate is increased as soon as the wealth process falls into the red zone and is brought back to its regular level when the process recovers. The analysis is mainly focused on the time...

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Blog Post: rob_daly: SIFMA Tech Dispatches: Post Mortem

Posted: 20 Jun 2013 11:09 AM PDT

SIFMA Tech Dispatches: Post Mortemread more...

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Vendor News: Infosys is now a contributing member of Open Data Center Alliance

Posted: 20 Jun 2013 05:05 AM PDT

Infosys will provide expertise in cloud and big data to support the Alliance’s mission â€" that of developing a unified vision around the cloud and big data requirements of enterprises.

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