Monday, February 2, 2015

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Inheritance: how Britain’s wealthy still keep it in the family

Posted: 02 Feb 2015 03:22 AM PST

The "elasticity" of intergenerational wealth is a remarkably stable http://t.co/QIgMSoWfgI — Risk Management (@Risk_Mgmt) February 2, 2015

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The Storrs Lectures: Behavioral Economics and Paternalism by Cass R. Sunstein :: SSRN

Posted: 02 Feb 2015 02:14 AM PST

Behavioral economics and paternalism (with reference to Mill and Hayek). http://t.co/zRsF4ryXqk — Cass Sunstein (@CassSunstein) February 1, 2015

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Vendor News: Infosys and Cornell Universityâs Center of Hospitality Research collaborate to design industry research

Posted: 02 Feb 2015 12:36 AM PST

Infosys has announced a research agreement with Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration. As part of this one-year partnership, Infosys will join the School of Hotel Administration’s Center for Hospitality Research (CHR) advisory board. Infosys will play a significant role in shaping high quality research by using its deep domain knowledge and understanding of the problems that...

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: In strategic change programs, don't assume anything

Posted: 02 Feb 2015 12:28 AM PST

I was running a workshop for a bank the other day and asked the group: “what are the toxic assumptions in the bank that will stop it from succeeding to change?”read more...

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Published / Preprint: Foreign Exchange Market Microstructure and the WM/Reuters 4pm Fix. (arXiv:1501.07778v1 [q-fin.TR])

Posted: 01 Feb 2015 05:36 PM PST

A market fix serves as a benchmark for foreign exchange (FX) execution, and is employed by many institutional investors to establish an exact reference at which execution takes place. The currently most popular FX fix is the World Market Reuters (WM/R) 4pm fix. Execution at the WM/R 4pm fix is a service offered by FX brokers (normally banks), who deliver execution at the fix provided they obtain...

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