Thursday, February 12, 2015

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: In the age of the internet, is it the poor who will be poorer?

Posted: 12 Feb 2015 01:06 AM PST

Here’s a good question for you: if cars self-drive, what happens to motor insurance?read more...

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Published / Preprint: Editorial

Posted: 12 Feb 2015 12:05 AM PST



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Published / Preprint: A simple scheme for allocating capital in a foreign exchange proprietary trading firm

Posted: 12 Feb 2015 12:05 AM PST



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Published / Preprint: Mean-reversion and optimization

Posted: 12 Feb 2015 12:05 AM PST



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Published / Preprint: Evaluating the hedging effectiveness in crude palm oil futures market during financial crises

Posted: 12 Feb 2015 12:05 AM PST



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Published / Preprint: The timing ability of hybrid-funds of funds

Posted: 12 Feb 2015 12:05 AM PST



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Published / Preprint: Diversification, protection of liability holders and regulatory arbitrage. (arXiv:1502.03252v1 [q-fin.RM])

Posted: 11 Feb 2015 05:38 PM PST

Any solvency regime for financial institutions should be aligned with the two fundamental objectives of regulation: protecting liability holders and securing the stability of the financial system. From these objectives we derive two normative requirements for capital adequacy tests, called surplus and num\'{e}raire invariance, respectively. We characterize capital adequacy tests that satisfy...

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Published / Preprint: Asymptotic indifference pricing in exponential L\'evy models. (arXiv:1502.03359v1 [q-fin.PR])

Posted: 11 Feb 2015 05:38 PM PST

Financial markets based on L\'evy processes are typically incomplete and option prices depend on risk preferences of individual agents. In this context, the notion of utility indifference price has gained popularity in the academic circles. Although theoretically very appealing, this pricing method remains difficult to apply in practice, due to the high computational cost of solving the...

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Blog Post: rob_daly: Brokers, Synchronize Your Watches

Posted: 11 Feb 2015 04:45 PM PST

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Vendor News: POSIT Alert Hits New International Trading Records

Posted: 11 Feb 2015 09:26 AM PST

January 2015 Record Value Traded in Europe, Asia Pacific, Canada, Latin America NEW YORK, Feb. 11, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ITG (NYSE:ITG) a leading execution and research broker, today announced that POSIT Alert® hit new records in January 2015 for value traded in Europe, Asia Pacific, Canada and Latin America. Global POSIT Alert crossed block equity trades with total notional value of...

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Blog Post: iMFdirect: How Can Egypt Achieve Economic Stability and Better Living Standards Together?

Posted: 11 Feb 2015 09:16 AM PST

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Vendor News: ICA Gruppen Partners with Infosys to Revitalize its IT Operations

Posted: 11 Feb 2015 01:36 AM PST

Infosys today announced that it has been selected by ICA Gruppen, Sweden’s leading retailer, to manage its IT operations.

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Published / Preprint: The pricing of lookback options and binomial approximation. (arXiv:1502.02819v1 [q-fin.MF])

Posted: 10 Feb 2015 05:36 PM PST

Refining a discrete model of Cheuk and Vorst we obtain a closed formula for the price of a European lookback option at any time between emission and maturity. We derive an asymptotic expansion of the price as the number of periods tends to infinity, thereby solving a problem posed by Lin and Palmer. We prove, in particular, that the price in the discrete model tends to the price in the continuous...

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Published / Preprint: Dark-Pool Perspective of Optimal Market Making. (arXiv:1502.02863v1 [q-fin.MF])

Posted: 10 Feb 2015 05:36 PM PST

We consider a finite-horizon market-making problem faced by a dark pool that executes incoming buy and sell orders. The arrival flow of such orders is assumed to be random and, for each transaction, the dark pool earns a per-share commission no greater than the half bid-ask spread. Throughout the entire period, the main concern is inventory risk, which increases as the number of held positions...

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Published / Preprint: Consistent Recalibration of Yield Curve Models. (arXiv:1502.02926v1 [q-fin.MF])

Posted: 10 Feb 2015 05:36 PM PST

The analytical tractability of affine (short rate) models, such as the Vasi\v{c}ek and the Cox-Ingersoll-Ross models, has made them a popular choice for modelling the dynamics of interest rates. However, in order to account properly for the dynamics of real data, these models need to exhibit time-dependent, or even stochastic, parameters. This in turn breaks their tractability, and modelling...

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Published / Preprint: An Analysis of the Heston Stochastic Volatility Model: Implementation and Calibration using Matlab. (arXiv:1502.02963v1 [q-fin.PR])

Posted: 10 Feb 2015 05:36 PM PST

This paper analyses the implementation and calibration of the Heston Stochastic Volatility Model. We first explain how characteristic functions can be used to estimate option prices. Then we consider the implementation of the Heston model, showing that relatively simple solutions can lead to fast and accurate vanilla option prices. We also perform several calibration tests, using both local and...

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Published / Preprint: Learning and Portfolio Decisions for HARA Investors. (arXiv:1502.02968v1 [q-fin.PM])

Posted: 10 Feb 2015 05:36 PM PST

We maximize the expected utility from terminal wealth for an HARA investor when the market price of risk is an unobservable random variable. We compute the optimal portfolio explicitly and explore the effects of learning by comparing it with the corresponding myopic policy. In particular, we show that, for a market price of risk constant in sign, the ratio between the portfolio under partial...

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Published / Preprint: Semi-Discrete method and stochastic volatility. (arXiv:1502.03018v1 [math.NA])

Posted: 10 Feb 2015 05:36 PM PST

In this paper we want to exploit further the semi-discrete method appeared in \cite{halidias_stamatiou:2014}. We are interested in the numerical solution of mean reverting CEV processes that appear in financial mathematics and are described as non negative solutions of certain stochastic differential equations with sub-linear diffusion coefficients of the form $(x_t)^q,$...

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Published / Preprint: Information and Trading Targets in a Dynamic Market Equilibrium. (arXiv:1502.02083v1 [q-fin.TR])

Posted: 09 Feb 2015 05:46 PM PST

This paper investigates the equilibrium interactions between trading targets and private information in a multi-period Kyle (1985) market. There are two investors who each follow dynamic trading strategies: A strategic portfolio rebalancer who engages in order splitting to reach a cumulative trading target and an unconstrained strategic insider who trades on long-lived information. We consider...

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Published / Preprint: Asymptotic Investment Behaviors under a Jump-Diffusion Risk Process. (arXiv:1502.02286v1 [q-fin.PM])

Posted: 09 Feb 2015 05:46 PM PST

We study an optimal investment control problem for an insurance company. The surplus process follows the Cramer-Lundberg process with perturbation of a Brownian motion. The company can invest its surplus into a risk free asset and a Black-Scholes risky asset. The optimization objective is to minimize the probability of ruin. We show by new operators that the minimal ruin probability function is a...

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Published / Preprint: Mergers and acquisitions transactions strategies in diffusion - type financial systems in highly volatile global capital markets with nonlinearities. (arXiv:1502.02537v1 [q-fin.GN])

Posted: 09 Feb 2015 05:46 PM PST

The M and A transactions represent a wide range of unique business optimization opportunities in the corporate transformation deals, which are usually characterized by the high level of total risk. The M and A transactions can be successfully implemented by taking to an account the size of investments, purchase price, direction of transaction, type of transaction, and using the modern comparable...

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Company history | HSBC Private Bank

Posted: 09 Feb 2015 02:22 AM PST

#hsbc acquires Rep NY Corp & Safra Rep Hldings '99;Name change to HSBC Private Bank '04; files cover period:'05-'07 http://t.co/nYaLfCrZCW — moneyscience…

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HSBC 'helped clients dodge tax'

Posted: 09 Feb 2015 02:22 AM PST

The #HSBC story is going to run (http://t.co/jp3ZYOmBUJ) and run (http://t.co/s7mrBbmibo) and run (http://t.co/eOQL6sdgTv) — moneyscience (@moneyscience)…

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Blog Post: Luigi.Ballabio: Odds and ends: global settings

Posted: 08 Feb 2015 10:05 PM PST

Blog Post: emotionalfinance: Interview on Share Radio

Posted: 07 Feb 2015 04:37 AM PST



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Blog Post: PatrickBurns: US market portrait 2015 week 6

Posted: 07 Feb 2015 04:16 AM PST

US large cap market returns. read more...

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World's biggest sovereign wealth fund dumps dozens of coal companies

Posted: 06 Feb 2015 12:38 AM PST

World's biggest sovereign wealth fund dumps dozens of coal companies http://t.co/gGsBqG1enu — moneyscience (@moneyscience) February 6, 2015

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