Wednesday, August 13, 2014

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Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: The Shadows of the Bond Market's Past, Part II

Posted: 13 Aug 2014 04:09 AM PDT

This is the continuation of The Shadows of the Bond Market’s Past, Part I.  If you haven’t read part I, you will need to read it.  Before I start, there is one more thing I want to add regarding 1994-5: the FOMC used signals from the bond markets to give themselves estimates of expected inflation.  Because of that, the FOMC overdid policy, because the dominant seller of Treasuries...

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: EXCLUSIVE: London broker caught up in Snoras Bank and Vladimir Antonov

Posted: 13 Aug 2014 02:51 AM PDT

Afer yesterday's blog about sanctions against Russia, I thought it time to give an update regarding Vladimir Antonov and the Russian mafia.read more...

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Vendor News: August 13, 2014 - SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index: July performance -0.37%; Capital Movement Index: August net flows advance 0.62%

Posted: 13 Aug 2014 01:07 AM PDT

Vendor News: Hong Kong brokers line up for China Connect with Fidessa

Posted: 13 Aug 2014 12:57 AM PDT

Fields Medal mathematics prize won by woman for first time in its history

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 11:47 PM PDT

Fields Medal mathematics prize won by woman for first time in its history http://t.co/8ksa87HdHI — moneyscience (@moneyscience) August 13, 2014

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Published / Preprint: Sector-Based Factor Models for Asset Returns. (arXiv:1408.2794v1 [q-fin.ST])

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 05:39 PM PDT

Factor analysis is a statistical technique employed to evaluate how observed variables correlate through common factors and unique variables. While it is often used to analyze price movement in the unstable stock market, it does not always yield easily interpretable results. In this study, we develop improved factor models by explicitly incorporating sector information on our studied stocks. We...

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Published / Preprint: Accelerated Portfolio Optimization with Conditional Value-at-Risk Constraints using a Cutting-Plane Method. (arXiv:1408.2805v1 [math.OC])

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 05:39 PM PDT

Financial portfolios are often optimized for maximum profit while subject to a constraint formulated in terms of the Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR). This amounts to solving a linear problem. However, in its original formulation this linear problem has a very large number of linear constraints, too many to be enforced in practice. In the literature this is addressed by a reformulation of the...

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Biotech Firm Goes Public And Then Goes Un-Public In A Never-Before-Seen IPO Fail

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 08:20 AM PDT

WTF! Never seen anything like this. Biotech firm goes public and then un-public in unprecedented IPO fail http://t.co/4HCFDSR0bn — Joseph Weisenthal…

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