Thursday, February 5, 2015

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MoneyScience News


Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: The 50 most innovative FinTech firms, 2015

Posted: 30 Jan 2015 02:18 AM PST

So the FinTech50 were announced last night. These are the 50 most innovative fintech start-ups, as voted for by a panel that included yours truly.  read more...

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Vendor News: January 29, 2015 - Albert Fried & Company Selects SS&C to Support its Prime Brokerage Business

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:08 AM PST

Blog Post: WealthandCapitalMarketsBlog: Toward a New Definition of Discretionary

Posted: 28 Jan 2015 07:56 PM PST

The Unified Managed Account (UMA) has served since inception as a lightning rod for conflict between the sponsor firm and the advisor. Nowhere is the tension between customization and scale more acute. While the advisor may seek to customize a portfolio to justify his fee, the interests of the UMA sponsor typically are skewed towards scale.read more...

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Blog Post: iMFdirect: A Big Step Forward for Bolstering Financial Inclusion

Posted: 28 Jan 2015 06:07 AM PST

By David Marston, Era Dabla-Norris, and D. Filiz Unsalread more...

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Published / Preprint: 28Jan/Revised Pillar 3 requirements issued by the Basel Committee

Posted: 28 Jan 2015 03:37 AM PST

Press release about the Basel Committee issuing revised Pillar 3 requirements (28 January 2015).

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Computer Chess Created In 487 Bytes, Breaks 32-Year-Old Record - Slashdot

Posted: 28 Jan 2015 01:05 AM PST

"a fully-playable version of chess called BootChess in just 487 bytes" http://t.co/EKLvYmJJO0 — moneyscience (@moneyscience) January 28, 2015

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The new scientific revolution: Reproducibility at last

Posted: 28 Jan 2015 01:05 AM PST

"The new scientific revolution: Reproducibility at last" http://t.co/PoggKvSNaV by @JoelAchenbach — Arthur Charpentier (@freakonometrics) January 28, 2015

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Published / Preprint: Corporate governance reforms in emerging countries: A case study of Bangladesh

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 02:35 AM PST



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Published / Preprint: The effects of mandatory IFRS adoption: A review of evidence based on accounting standard setting criteria

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 02:35 AM PST



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Published / Preprint: Swedish and Dutch listed companiesâ compliance with IAS 36 paragraph 134

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 02:35 AM PST



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IBM denies plans to cut 26% of workforce

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 02:12 AM PST

IBM denies plans to cut 26% of workforce http://t.co/d0Iap6oHeT — moneyscience (@moneyscience) January 27, 2015

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Published / Preprint: Mandatory Portfolio Disclosure, Stock Liquidity, and Mutual Fund Performance

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 01:27 AM PST

We examine the impact of mandatory portfolio disclosure by mutual funds on stock liquidity and fund performance. We develop a model of informed trading with disclosure and test its predictions using the May 2004 SEC regulation requiring more frequent disclosure. Stocks with higher fund ownership, especially those held by more informed funds or subject to greater information asymmetry, experience...

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Published / Preprint: Learning about Consumption Dynamics

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 01:27 AM PST

This paper characterizes U.S. consumption dynamics from the perspective of a Bayesian agent facing realistic high-dimensional macroeconomic learning problems using standard Markov switching models. Joint parameter, model, and state learning generates substantially different subjective beliefs about consumption dynamics compared to the standard, full-information rational expectations benchmark...

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Published / Preprint: Dividend Dynamics and the Term Structure of Dividend Strips

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 01:27 AM PST

Many leading asset pricing models are specified so that the term structure of dividend volatility is either flat or upward sloping. Related, these models predict that the term structures of expected returns and volatilities on dividend strips (i.e., claims to dividends paid over a prespecified interval) are also upward sloping. However, the empirical evidence suggests otherwise. This discrepancy...

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