Friday, January 31, 2014

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: Data is at the heart of everything today, especially cyberattacks

Posted: 31 Jan 2014 02:00 AM PST

Another dimension of discussion at the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery conference was the whole area of hacktivism and cyberattacks.read more...

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Published / Preprint: A Stochastic Volatility Model for Crude Oil Futures Curves and the Pricing of Calendar Spread Options. (arXiv:1401.7913v1 [q-fin.PR])

Posted: 31 Jan 2014 01:59 AM PST

We introduce a multi-factor stochastic volatility model based on the CIR/Heston stochastic volatility process. In order to capture the Samuelson effect displayed by commodity futures contracts, we add expiry-dependent exponential damping factors to their volatility coefficients. The pricing of single underlying European options on futures contracts is straightforward and can incorporate the...

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Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: On HCI Group

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 11:58 PM PST

It is not often that I get asked to opine on a domestic insurer that I have never heard of.  Thus tonight’s article on HCI Group.  Here’s the request:read more...

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Blog Post: iMFdirect: The Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean in 2014

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 09:07 AM PST

By Alejandro Wernerread more...

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