Sunday, January 25, 2015

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Blog Post: PatrickBurns: US market portrait 2015 week 4

Posted: 24 Jan 2015 11:06 AM PST

US large cap market returns. read more...

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Vendor News: January 23, 2015 - SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator: January notifications 2.49%

Posted: 23 Jan 2015 06:56 AM PST

Published / Preprint: 23Jan/Second progress report on banks' adoption of risk data aggregation principles issued by the Basel Committee

Posted: 23 Jan 2015 03:25 AM PST

Press release about the Basel Committee issuing the second progress report on banks' adoption of risk data aggregation (23 January 2015).

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: Convincing management to renew core systems

Posted: 22 Jan 2015 10:37 PM PST

I’m often asked what I mean by a digital core and how to convince management to buy into it.read more...

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Blog Post: WealthandCapitalMarketsBlog: Managed Account Marketing vs. Reality

Posted: 22 Jan 2015 05:57 PM PST

In my last post I discussed some of the limitations of the unified managed household account or UMH, in which the investments of a household are managed within a single account.read more...

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Published / Preprint: Combining Alphas via Bounded Regression. (arXiv:1501.05381v1 [q-fin.PM])

Posted: 22 Jan 2015 05:37 PM PST

We give an explicit algorithm and source code for combining alpha streams via bounded regression. In practical applications typically there is insufficient history to compute a sample covariance matrix (SCM) for a large number of alphas. To compute alpha allocation weights, one then resorts to (weighted) regression over SCM principal components. Regression often produces alpha weights with...

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Published / Preprint: Cascades in multiplex financial networks with debts of different seniority. (arXiv:1501.05400v1 [q-fin.GN])

Posted: 22 Jan 2015 05:37 PM PST

The seniority of debt, which determines the order in which a bankrupt institution repays its debts, is an important and sometimes contentious feature of financial crises, yet its impact on system-wide stability is not well understood. We capture seniority of debt in a multiplex network, a graph of nodes connected by multiple types of edges. Here, an edge between banks denotes a debt contract of a...

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Blog Post: iMFdirect: Learning to Live with Cheaper Oil in the Middle East

Posted: 22 Jan 2015 02:07 PM PST

By Masood Ahmedread more...

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Blog Post: ThePracticalQuant: Building and deploying large-scale machine learning pipelines

Posted: 22 Jan 2015 07:49 AM PST

[A version of this post appears on the O'Reilly Radar blog.]There are many algorithms with implementations that scale to large data sets (this list includes matrix factorization, SVM, logistic regression, LASSO, and many others). In fact, machine learning experts are fond of pointing out: if you can pose your problem as a simple optimization problem then you’re almost done.Of course, in...

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