Thursday, August 1, 2013

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Vendor News: Fidessa opens up the world of post-trade processing

Posted: 01 Aug 2013 01:09 AM PDT

Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: Redacted Version of the July 2013 FOMC Statement

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 11:47 PM PDT

June 2013July 2013CommentsInformation received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in May suggests that economic activity has been expanding at a moderate pace.Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in June suggests that economic activity expanded at a modest pace during the first half of the year.Shades their view of past GDP down.Labor market conditions have...

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: Things worth reading: 1st August 2013

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 10:19 PM PDT

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Published / Preprint: Liability-driven investment in longevity risk management. (arXiv:1307.8261v1 [q-fin.RM])

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 05:39 PM PDT

This paper studies optimal investment from the point of view of an investor with longevity-linked liabilities. The relevant optimization problems rarely are analytically tractable, but we are able to show numerically that liability driven investment can significantly outperform common strategies that do not take the liabilities into account. In problems without liabilities the advantage...

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Published / Preprint: Is it possible to predict long-term success with k-NN? Case Study of four market indices (FTSE100, DAX, HANGSENG, NASDAQ). (arXiv:1307.8308v1 [q-fin.ST])

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 05:39 PM PDT

This case study tests the possibility of prediction for "success" (or "winner") components of four stock & shares market indices in a time period of three years from 02-Jul-2009 to 29-Jun-2012.We compare their performance ain two time frames: initial frame three months at the beginning (02/06/2009-30/09/2009) and the final three month frame (02/04/2012-29/06/2012). To label the components,...

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Blog Post: rob_daly: SEFs Pending HFT Pains

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 01:56 PM PDT

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Event: Helsinki Finance Summit 2013

Posted: 16 Jul 2013 11:49 AM PDT

Location: Hotel Kämp, Pohjoisesplanadi 29, Helsinki; Date: August 26th, 2013; The objective of this small conference is to present state-of-the-art academic research on topics related to investor behavior. Empirical, theoretical, and experimental papers are all welcome. There will be one track of presentations over the course of one and a half days. The relatively small scale of the conference...

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Vendor News: NAG announces support for IBM BlueGene/Q supercomputers

Posted: 13 Nov 2012 03:01 AM PST

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