Tuesday, March 11, 2014

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: Things worth reading: 11th March 2014

Posted: 11 Mar 2014 01:28 AM PDT

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Published / Preprint: Introduction to Risk Parity and Budgeting. (arXiv:1403.1889v1 [q-fin.PM])

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 05:38 PM PDT

Although portfolio management didn't change much during the 40 years after the seminal works of Markowitz and Sharpe, the development of risk budgeting techniques marked an important milestone in the deepening of the relationship between risk and asset management. Risk parity then became a popular financial model of investment after the global financial crisis in 2008. Today, pension funds and...

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Published / Preprint: Partial Mutual Information Analysis of Financial Networks. (arXiv:1403.2050v1 [q-fin.ST])

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 05:38 PM PDT

The econophysics approach to socio-economic systems is based on the assumption of their complexity. Such assumption inevitably lead to another assumption, namely that underlying interconnections within socio-economic systems, particularly financial markets, are nonlinear, which is shown to be true even in mainstream economic literature. Thus it is surprising to see that network analysis of...

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Published / Preprint: A reinforcement learning extension to the Almgren-Chriss model for optimal trade execution. (arXiv:1403.2229v1 [q-fin.TR])

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 05:37 PM PDT

Reinforcement learning is explored as a candidate machine learning technique to enhance existing analytical solutions for optimal trade execution with elements from the market microstructure. Given a volume-to-trade, fixed time horizon and discrete trading periods, the aim is to adapt a given volume trajectory such that it is dynamic with respect to favourable/unfavourable conditions during...

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Blog Post: iMFdirect: Financial Crises: Taking Stock

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 07:46 AM PDT

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