Monday, December 2, 2013

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Published / Preprint: Risk- and ambiguity-averse portfolio optimization with quasiconcave utility functionals. (arXiv:1311.7419v1 [q-fin.PM])

Posted: 01 Dec 2013 05:37 PM PST

Motivated by recent axiomatic developments, we study the risk- and ambiguity-averse investment problem where trading takes place over a fixed finite horizon and terminal payoffs are evaluated according to a criterion defined in terms of a quasiconcave utility functional. We extend to the present setting certain existence and duality results established for the so-called variational preferences by...

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Blog Post: ThePracticalQuant: Data Scientists and Data Engineers like Python and Scala

Posted: 01 Dec 2013 10:36 AM PST

[A version of this post appears on the O'Reilly Strata blog.]In exchange for getting personalized recommendations many Meetup members declare1 topics that they're interested in. I recently looked at the topics listed by members of a few local, data Meetups that I've frequented. These Meetups vary in size from 600 to 2,000 total (and 400 to 1,100 active2) members.I was particularly interested in...

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Blog Post: PatrickBurns: US market portrait 2013 week 48

Posted: 01 Dec 2013 04:26 AM PST

US large cap market returns.read more...

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