Thursday, July 18, 2013

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MoneyScience News


Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: Holiday Humour #9: Entrepreneurialism

Posted: 18 Jul 2013 02:40 AM PDT

A wealthy businessman gave a very emotional speech about his rise to glory.read more...

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Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: The Problem of Small Accounts

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 09:59 PM PDT

We all want financial advice.  Good advice.  And we want it for free.  That’s why we come to the Aleph Blog, where advice is regularly dispensed, and at no cost.read more...

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Published / Preprint: Utility indifference valuation for non-smooth payoffs with an application to power derivatives. (arXiv:1307.4591v1 [q-fin.PR])

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 05:37 PM PDT

We consider the problem of exponential utility indifference valuation under the simplified framework where traded and nontraded assets are uncorrelated but where the claim to be priced possibly depends on both. Traded asset prices follow a multivariate Black and Scholes model, while nontraded asset prices evolve as generalized Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes. We provide a BSDE characterization of...

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Published / Preprint: Predicting financial markets with Google Trends and not so random keywords. (arXiv:1307.4643v1 [q-fin.ST])

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 05:37 PM PDT

We check the claims that data from Google Trends contain enough data to predict future financial index returns. We first discuss the many subtle (and less subtle) biases that may affect the backtest of a trading strategy, particularly when based on such data. Expectedly, the choice of keywords is crucial: by using an industry-grade backtesting system, we verify that random finance-related...

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Published / Preprint: Testing power-law cross-correlations: Rescaled covariance test. (arXiv:1307.4727v1 [q-fin.ST])

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 05:37 PM PDT

We introduce a new test for detection of power-law cross-correlations among a pair of time series - the rescaled covariance test. The test is based on a power-law divergence of the covariance of the partial sums of the long-range cross-correlated processes. Utilizing a heteroskedasticity and auto-correlation robust estimator of the long-term covariance, we develop a test with...

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Blog Post: iMFdirect: Fixing the Financial Sector: A Change the UK must Bank On

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 10:16 AM PDT

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Vendor News: July 17, 2013 - SS&C PORTIA Outsourcing Clients Migrate to SS&Câs Global Data Center

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 06:07 AM PDT