Friday, February 14, 2014

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MoneyScience News


Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: It may be Valentine's Day, but is he or she worth it? (Infographic)

Posted: 14 Feb 2014 02:29 AM PST

It’s Valentines day and Goldman Sachs is talking about bringing back the love into banking.read more...

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Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: Book Review: 'The Up Side of Downâ

Posted: 13 Feb 2014 09:50 PM PST

Failure. We’ve all experienced it. Can we benefit from it?  The answer is maybe, depending on the costs of failure.read more...

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Published / Preprint: Information ratio analysis of momentum strategies. (arXiv:1402.3030v1 [q-fin.ST])

Posted: 13 Feb 2014 05:40 PM PST

In the past 20 years, momentum or trend following strategies have become an established part of the investor toolbox. We introduce a new way of analyzing momentum strategies by looking at the information ratio (IR, average return divided by standard deviation). We calculate the theoretical IR of a momentum strategy and show that if momentum is mainly due to the positive autocorrelation in...

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Vendor News: February 13, 2014 - SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index: January performance 1.39%; Capital Movement Index: February net flows advance 0.94%

Posted: 13 Feb 2014 05:03 AM PST