Tuesday, September 30, 2014

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Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: AIG Was Broke

Posted: 30 Sep 2014 02:59 AM PDT

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Published / Preprint: Risk Premia: Asymmetric Tail Risks and Excess Returns. (arXiv:1409.7720v1 [q-fin.GN])

Posted: 29 Sep 2014 05:37 PM PDT

We present extensive evidence that "risk premium" is strongly correlated with tail-risk skewness but very little with volatility. We introduce a new, intuitive definition of skewness and elicit a linear relation between the Sharpe ratio of various risk premium strategies (Equity, Fama-French, FX Carry, Short Vol, Bonds, Credit) and their negative skewness. We find a clear exception to this rule:...

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Published / Preprint: Turnpike Property and Convergence Rate for an Investment Model with General Utility Functions. (arXiv:1409.7802v1 [q-fin.EC])

Posted: 29 Sep 2014 05:37 PM PDT

In this paper we aim to address two questions faced by a long-term investor with a power-type utility at high levels of wealth: one is whether the turnpike property still holds for a general utility that is not necessarily differentiable or strictly concave, the other is whether the error and the convergence rate of the turnpike property can be estimated. We give positive answers to both...

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Published / Preprint: Parametric Risk Parity. (arXiv:1409.7933v1 [q-fin.RM])

Posted: 29 Sep 2014 05:37 PM PDT

Any optimization algorithm based on the risk parity approach requires the formulation of portfolio total risk in terms of marginal contributions. In this paper we use the independence of the underlying factors in the market to derive the centered moments required in the risk decomposition process when the modified versions of Value at Risk and Expected Shortfall are considered. read more...

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Published / Preprint: Preventing endogenous extreme events in herding dominant agent-based financial market. (arXiv:1409.8024v1 [q-fin.ST])

Posted: 29 Sep 2014 05:37 PM PDT

A characteristic feature of complex systems in general is a tight coupling between their constituent parts. In complex socio-economic systems this kind of behavior leads to self-organization, which may be both desirable (e.g. social cooperation) and undesirable (e.g. mass panic, financial "bubbles" or "crashes"). Abundance of the empirical data as well as general insights into the trading...

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Published / Preprint: Multi-asset consumption-investment problems with infinite transaction costs. (arXiv:1409.8037v1 [q-fin.MF])

Posted: 29 Sep 2014 05:37 PM PDT

The subject of this paper is an optimal consumption/optimal portfolio problem with transaction costs and with multiple risky assets. read more...

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Published / Preprint: Fact Sheet Research on Bayesian Decision Theory. (arXiv:1409.8269v1 [q-fin.GN])

Posted: 29 Sep 2014 05:37 PM PDT

In this fact sheet we give some preliminary research results on the Bayesian Decision Theory. This theory has been under construction for the past two years. But what started as an intuitive enough idea, now seems to have the makings of something far more fundamental.

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GSB CMIS Download Document | Stanford Graduate School of Business

Posted: 29 Sep 2014 10:54 AM PDT

MT @mathbabedotorg: Chameleons: The Misuse of Theoretical Models in Finance and Econ - new paper by Paul Pfleiderer http://t.co/ytiAvBGinu — Risk Management…

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: Do you understand the blockchain? [#SIBOS #SIBOS2014 #Innotribe]

Posted: 29 Sep 2014 10:00 AM PDT

Sounds like something to do with a toilet that doesn't work: the blockchain ... but no, it's all about cryptocurrencies and the future of money, our first innotribe session.  It was a good meeting, with speakers including:read more...

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Incredible Images Of Wall Street Trading Before The Bloomberg Terminal

Posted: 29 Sep 2014 06:51 AM PDT

Incredible Images Of Wall Street Trading Before The Bloomberg Terminal http://t.co/fvPGSMqahM http://ift.tt/1nzkChT — Elena Holodny (@elenaholodny) September…

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Belief, bias and Bayes

Posted: 29 Sep 2014 06:51 AM PDT

Belief, bias and Bayes http://t.co/j6BrLonyqm — moneyscience (@moneyscience) September 29, 2014

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Vendor News: September 29, 2014 - SS&C Technologies to Present at Deutsche Bank Leveraged Finance Conference

Posted: 29 Sep 2014 06:08 AM PDT