Wednesday, November 19, 2014

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MoneyScience News


Vendor News: Infosys collaborates with Stanford Graduate School of Business to Develop World-class Education and Training

Posted: 19 Nov 2014 02:24 AM PST

Infosys announces that it will collaborate with Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) to create a comprehensive strategic leadership development program for Stanford’s executives, clients, and partners.

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Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: The No-Lose Line

Posted: 19 Nov 2014 02:04 AM PST

How long can you hold a Treasury Note or Bond, and not suffer a loss in total return terms, if yields rise from where they are today?  Maybe the answer will surprise you, and maybe not — it depends on how fixed-income literate you are.read more...

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: 50 shades of grey ... hair

Posted: 19 Nov 2014 12:01 AM PST

I was talking about the component-based model and how it was now moving into component-based regulation, when someone challenged this notion.read more...

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Published / Preprint: Diversification versus specialization -- lessons from a noise driven linear dynamical system. (arXiv:1411.4756v1 [physics.soc-ph])

Posted: 18 Nov 2014 05:37 PM PST

Specialization and diversification are two major strategies that complex systems might exploit. Given a fixed amount of resources, the question is whether to invest this in elements that respond in a correlated manner to external perturbations, or to build a diversified system with groups of elements that respond in a not necessarily correlated manner. This general dilemma is investigated here...

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Published / Preprint: Dynamic Defaultable Term Structure Modelling beyond the Intensity Paradigm. (arXiv:1411.4851v1 [q-fin.MF])

Posted: 18 Nov 2014 05:37 PM PST

The two main approaches in credit risk are the structural approach pioneered in Merton (1974) and the reduced-form framework proposed in Jarrow & Turnbull (1995) and in Artzner & Delbaen (1995). The goal of this article is to provide a unified view on both approaches. This is achieved by studying reduced-form approaches under weak assumptions. In particular we do not assume the...

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Published / Preprint: Modelling of dependence in high-dimensional financial time series by cluster-derived canonical vines. (arXiv:1411.4970v1 [q-fin.ST])

Posted: 18 Nov 2014 05:37 PM PST

We extend existing models in the financial literature by introducing a cluster-derived canonical vine (CDCV) copula model for capturing high dimensional dependence between financial time series. This model utilises a simplified market-sector vine copula framework similar to those introduced by Heinen and Valdesogo (2008) and Brechmann and Czado (2013), which can be applied by conditioning asset...

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Blog Post: WealthandCapitalMarketsBlog: Price Pressure Weighs on Automated Investment Advisors

Posted: 18 Nov 2014 09:10 AM PST

Signs of a price war are troubling for an industry known for its door-buster fees. Charles Schwab’s forthcoming launch of its zero cost Intelligent Portfolios platform is another round in what quickly could become a life or death battle for many of today’s automated investment start-ups.read more...

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Vendor News: November 18, 2014 - SS&C Technologies to Present at Jefferies Internet and Software Summit

Posted: 18 Nov 2014 06:08 AM PST