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Capturing Animal Spirits in Financial Markets

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:21:24 -0800

Magda Roszczynska Andrzej Nowak University of Warsaw - Institute for Social Studies Daniel Kamieniarz Sorin Solomon Racah Institute of Physics Jorgen Vitting Andersen Institut Non Linaire de Nice Abstract The current crisis in world finances clearly shows the failure of formal models of financial markets. Many experts believe that the failure of these models to capture crashes and bubbles is due t

Hedge Fund Focus - 04-11-09

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:54:30 -0800

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MoneyScience Twitter Review - November 2009

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:28:43 -0800

The Financial Bubble Experiment: advanced diagnostics and forecasts of bubble terminations (pdf) http://bit.ly/aokXS The 16th Annual Workshop on Derivative Securities and Risk Management - Columbia University, New York - Nov 20th. http://bit.ly/1QTJMb 20 Finance Blogs You Might Not Know - http://bit.ly/1XymQF Many Thanks to The Reformed Broker for including MoneyScience on his excellent Periodic T

Quants face lack of understanding of their role by managers

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:12:16 -0800

A significant gap in understanding between quants and their supervisors has been revealed in a survey of almost 400 active quants and risk professionals. The majority (86.3%) of quant and risk management supervisors do not fully understand the work that their teams do, according to the survey conducted by Certificate in Quantitative Finance (CQF). The survey asked respondents about the relationshi

Podcast - BBC Radio 4 - File on 4 on High Frequency Trading

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:39:10 -0800

Companies could become the "playthings" of speculators because of super-fast automatic share trading, Treasury minister Lord Myners has warns. In a world where shares can change hands in micro seconds, thanks to automated trading, Michael Robinson reveals reveal how this kind of trading can give big banks an advantage over the rest of us. And he asks what chance regulators have of controlling casi

Finance Professor Hoje Jo Named Moskowitz Prize Winner

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:39:52 -0800

Hoje Jo, associate professor of finance at Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business, has won the 2009 Moskowitz Prize from the Center for Responsible Business at UC Berkeley. The award honors Professor Jo’s paper, "The Economics and Politics of Corporate Social Performance," ( David P. Baron, Maretno A. Harjoto, co-authors ), which found evidence that consumer companies benefit from

The Reformed Broker presents the Periodic Table of Financial Bloggers

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:22:36 -0800

Huge thanks and much Kudos to Joshua M. Brown over at The Reformed Broker for including MoneyScience on his excellent Periodic Table of Finance Bloggers. You can read all about it here or click on the image below for a bigger version. MoneyScience aggregates a big collection of bloggers and news sources here or you might be interested in this article: 20 Finance Blogs You Might Not Know. [External

Behavioural Finance and Equity Investment Strategies - 8-9 December 2009

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:12:56 -0800

London Financial Studies Profile at MoneyScience More information about this course. Modern finance portrays investment decision-making as rational choice. However, pure rationality does not describe how many decisions are truly made. This course examines (1) the behavioural strategies that amateur and expert investors rely upon to make decisions, (2) the structure and speculative dynamics of retu

The Financial Crisis as a Symbol of the Failure of Academic Finance - A Methodological Digression

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:54:03 -0800

Hans J. Blommestein Tilburg University - Center and Faculty of Economics and Business Administration; Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) Abstract The failure of academic finance can be considered one of the symbols of the financial crisis. Two important underlying reasons why academic finance models systematically fail to account for real-world phenomena fo

Lords of Finance - Liaquat Ahamed wins the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2009

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:33:37 -0700

Liaquat Ahamed today won the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2009 for Lords of Finance: 1929, The Great Depression, and the Bankers Who Broke the World, published by William Heinemann. The Award was presented today at a gala dinner at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London by Lionel Barber, editor, Financial Times, and Lloyd C. Blankfein, Chairman and Chief Ex

Call for Papers - Special Issue on Computational Methods in Financial Engineering

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:07:14 -0700

The International Journal of Financial Markets and Derivatives (Inderscience Pub), is organising a special issue on the use of Computational Methods in Financial Engineering. It is an attempt to explore and bring together practical, state-of-the-art applications of computational techniques in financial problems, including risk analysis, asset pricing and portfolio management. Topics of interest in

Cass Talks - Tim Harford on the best 'Dear Undercover Economist' letters

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:50:08 -0700

Cass Business School Profile at MoneyScience. The Undercover Economist, Tim Harford, highlights the most intriguing letters published in his new book, Dear Undercover Economist, by using his rigorous and entertaining technique of applying the fundamental principles of economics to the every day dilemmas of his readers. More Cass Talks: Episode 1 - Alistair Milne on Barclays and Toxic Assets Episod

The market for MBAs is defying the economic gloom

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:40:30 -0700

Business schools have been widely accused of fashioning the wrecking balls and training many of the demolition crews that have wreaked such havoc in the economy over the past two years. And the crisis, whether it was forged in business schools or not, is undoubtedly making it harder for students to afford their fees, or to get jobs when they graduate: in America only half the class of 2009 had bee

Video - GLC's Steven Bell introducing Hedge Funds

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:44:05 -0700

Steven Bell joined GLC Ltd at the beginning of 2006 and runs their Macro Hedge Fund Programme. Before that he spent 20 years at Deutsche Bank and predecessor companies. For the last five years he was Deutsche Asset Management's Global Chief Economist where he was responsible for asset allocation. This involved determining the overall amount UK pension fund clients invested in commercial property v

Common Errors in the Interpretation of the Ideas of The Black Swan and Associated Papers

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:49:00 -0700

Nassim Nicholas Taleb NYU-Poly Institute Abstract The point of The Black Swan is that both empirical knowledge (i.e. extrapolating statistics) and a priori theories fail in the tails and it is vital to "robustify" against it using the concepts of "the fourth quadrant". The point has been garbled by members of the economics establishment that claim mistakenly "we know that" and

Risk Management Research Report - Issue 3 - Autumn 2009

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:20:47 -0700

Issue 3 Who Gambles in the Stock Market? Alok Kumar Opaque Financial Reports, R2, and Crash Risk Amy P. Hutton, Alan J. Marcus, and Hassan Tehranian Strong Boards, CEO Power and Bank Risk Taking Shams Pathan Determinants of Contract Terms for Professional Services Carsten Homburg and Peter Stebel The Price of Sin: The Effects of Social Norms on Markets Harrison Hong and Marcin Kacperczyk Differenc

Innovation and the Future Proof Bank - A Practical Guide to Doing Different Business-as-Usual

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:05:34 -0700

Read more at Wiley Finance Read Excerpt: Chapter (PDF) Read Excerpt: Table of Contents (PDF) ISBN: 978-0-470-71419-5 - 334 pages - Hardcover - August 2009 Wiley Finance Profile at MoneyScience Innovation, the conversion of the new to business as usual, is a very special business process. It is the business process able to reprogram all others. Creating the practices that make this process w

The Shorter, Faster, Cheaper MBA

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:14:15 -0700

Logan Snyder decided halfway through law school that he wanted to get his MBA degree. But after four years as an undergraduate business major, three years as a law student, and several years of work experience in between, spending two more years in business school was not an appealing prospect. Says Snyder: "It seemed like it would be a waste of time and money." Fortunately for Snyder, his busines

Financial Tradeware signs Altus for ViaNova connectivity to the Pensions industry

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:28:45 -0700

Financial Tradeware are pleased to announce that Altus, have signed to integrate its new Hosted Instruction Gateway through Financial Tradeware for ViaNova messaging. Financial Tradeware (through its sister company Européenne de Gestion Privée), provides the infrastructure for ViaNova messaging standardisation and SWIFT connectivity. Altus provides the Altus Instruction Gateway appli

Hedge Fund Focus 20-10-09

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:49:18 -0700

Financial Mathematics and Computation Cluster launches in Ireland

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:56:20 -0700

The Irish Government has announced an investment of more than €4 million in the establishment of a new Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Strategic Research Cluster designed to create a centre of financial research excellence. The Financial Mathematics and Computation Cluster (FMC2) will bring together complementary expertise in financial mathematics, financial economics and computer science. R

Computational Complexity and Information Asymmetry in Financial Products

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:17:08 -0700

By Sanjeev Arora, Boaz Barak, Markus Brunnermeier, and Rong Ge Abstract Traditional economics argues that financial derivatives, like CDOs and CDSs, ameliorate the negative costs imposed by asymmetric information. This is because securitization via derivatives allows the informed party to end buyers for less information-sensitive part of the cash flow stream of an asset (e.g.,

Advanced C plus plus for Computational Finance with Daniel Duffy

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:54:12 -0700

st 5 delegates 9 - 11 December, 2009 London, UK The goal of this three-day intensive hands-on course is to learn those advanced features in C++ that are of direct relevance to writing and extending applications for quantitative and computational finance. The course uses the object-oriented and generic (templates) programming models (OOP, GP) in combination with design patterns and the STL and boos

Pricing exotic interest rate derivatives - The LIBOR Market Model in QuantLib with Mark Joshi - June 2010

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:25:09 -0700

June 2 - 5, 2010 London, UK This three-day course will be led by an international expert who played a large role in the coding of the LIBOR market model in the QuantLib C++ open-source project. He will examine the practical problems that arise when implementing the LIBOR market model to price exotic interest rate derivatives. Each issue will be discussed at theoretical, practical and coding levels

MBA Diary - The First 2 Weeks at Cass Business School

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:00:31 -0700

Scott Addison exchanged New York for London when he decided to study for an MBA. His first two weeks at school have been a shock to the system. Since starting my MBA at Cass Business School in London just a few weeks ago, a consistent theme has arisen across nearly everything I have done and experienced. The focus is transition: transition from one career to another, from one skill set to a better

An investment vehicle that tries to model future earnings is seeking to revolutionise the way students fund their MBA degrees

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:52:34 -0700

The "community education bond", unveiled by French business school Insead in conjunction with British company Prodigy Finance, circumvents the traditional bank-based method of MBA finance by allowing alumni to invest in a fund that will be used to provide loans to students. Investors pledge money to the company, which then matches investors with prospective students and pays their tuition fees dir

The Mark 22 Release of the multipurpose NAG TOOLBOX FOR MATLAB.

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:59:28 -0700

Financial analysts seeking a broad range of mathematical and statistical functionality important to financial product development and portfolio analysis without the considerable expense and bother of sourcing multiple MATLAB toolboxes, can now access 1,415 rigorously tested numerical routines in the Mark 22 Release of the multipurpose NAG TOOLBOX FOR MATLAB. This one-stop solution for the finance

Book Review - The Myth of the Rational Market - A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:20:33 -0700

Cosma Shalizi reviews Justin Fox's book over at American Scientist in this article titled: Twilight of the Efficient Markets. The Myth of the Rational Market, by Justin Fox, is an account - popular but thorough - of the roots, rise, triumph and ongoing fall of the theory of efficient markets in finance. This school of thought is an exemplary specimen of a type of social science that flourished aft

Those Who Do, Teach

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:27:36 -0700

Forget The Ivory Tower Imagery. And Drop The Old Cliche That 'Those Who Can't Do, Teach.' From Entrepreneurship To Venture Funding, Even Research And Curriculum, Today's Business Schools Are Players In The Real Economy. There was a time, not so long ago, when business schools -- and in particular MBA programs -- were considered vital to the health of corporations, and by extension economies. Stude

QFINANCE - The Ultimate Resource for finance professionals, academia and business writers

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:10:30 -0700

The events of the last two years have shown that financial systems are not infallible and when they do fail, they do so on a global scale. Financial professionals around the world are now being asked to question their practices and thinking, and it is crucial that lessons are learned and best practice is adopted. Fresh ideas need to be shared globally. Knowledge and education are key and for the f

Upcoming Training from New York Institute of Finance Oct - Dec 2009

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:51:06 -0700

October Corporate Governance in an Era of Financial Crisis - 1 - 2 October 2009 Equity Derivatives - 5 - 6 October 2009 Credit Risk Analysis - 5 - 9 October 2009 Valuation and Use of Equity Options - 6 - 22 October 2009 Advanced Financial Modeling, Enhancements and Segment Build-up - 10 - 24 October 2009, New York, USA Convertible Bonds - 12 - 13 October 2009, New York, USA Es

Upcoming Training from London Financial Studies - Oct - Dec 2009

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:10:46 -0700

October 2009 Modern Credit Derivatives - 5 - 7 October 2009 Structured Products - Design - Pricing and Implementation - 7 - 9 October 2009 Asset Allocation and the Business Cycle - 12 - 13 October 2009 Quantitative Techniques for Credit Derivatives - 19 - 20 October 2009 Property Derivatives - 19 - 20 October 2009 Equity Derivatives - Valuation and Management - 21 - 23 October 2009 Collateral and

Lecturer - Senior Lecturer - Associate Professor - Stochastic and Statistical Modelling

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:48:37 -0700

The University of Technology Sydney Department of Mathematical Sciences is a leader in statistical and stochastic modelling and members of the department contribute to modelling in a diverse range of areas, including discrete choice modelling and quantitative risk management (including quantitative finance and stochastic numerical methods). We are looking to extend our involvement in modelling by

Financial Careers Global Survey 2009

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:00:40 -0700

MoneyScience has teamed with eFinancialCareers and would like to invite you to participate in the world's largest online study of careers in finance. In today's economic climate, the job market can be tough and unpredictable. We have joined together with international partners to bring you this survey to hear the views of all those connected with, or interested in, jobs in finance. We will be talk

Eugene Stanley on Econophysics and the Current Economic Turmoil

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:22:02 -0700

Almost every physicist by now has heard of the fast-growing subdiscipline of "econophysics", a field characterized by collaborations between physicists and economists and focused on asking if new insights or even laws could emerge if the concepts and approaches of statistical physics were brought to bear on questions that originate in economics. And almost everyone, physicist or nonphysicist, has

The Fribourg Symposium

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:22:22 -0700

Notice Posted at Econophysics Forum: Dear Colleagues, Last November we had an exciting gathering of many people who are/were physicists or other natural scientists but are working in finance, insurance and related sectors — an occasion built upon the so-called econophysics community that brought together both academics and practitioners in an intimate encounter. We would like to host

World Bank Economic Review

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:38:30 -0700

Journal Homepage About this journal Browse the Archive View Editorial board World Bank Economic Review RSS The World Bank Economic Review is one of the most widely read scholarly economic journals in the world. It is the only journal of its kind that specializes in quantitative development policy analysis. Subject to strict refereeing, articles examine policy choices and therefore emphasize policy

Quant-Press - Quantitative Finance Library

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:07:12 -0700

Quant-Press Latest Papers The aim of Quant-Press.com is to build an online library of freely available papers and articles in quantitative finance, as well as offering an interface between the financial academic and practitioner communities. [Externalrss-quantpress-titles-rss100-20-30]

Hedge Funds - Raising Capital and Internet Offers

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 04:24:33 -0800

[Externalrss-HedgeFundNews-titles-rss100-2-30] Hedge Fund Tutorials Focus Home Page Hedge Fund Services Providers Hedge Fund Books: US Hedge Fund Books: UK Introductions & Guides Papers & Research People & Profiles Research Centres Private Funds What Creates Illegal Offers? Internet Marketing Internet Offers U.S. Private Funds Private Investment Advisers Hedge Fund Databases Procedures for Interne

Hedge Fund Performance Fees

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:56:47 -0700

[Externalrss-HedgeFundNews-titles-rss100-2-30] Hedge Fund Tutorials Focus Home Page Hedge Fund Services Providers Hedge Fund Books: US Hedge Fund Books: UK Introductions & Guides Papers & Research People & Profiles Research Centres Paying Hedge Fund Management Best Practices Charging Fees Management Fees Performance Fees (Incentive/Performance Allocations) Qualified Purch

Fad or Reality - Algorithmic Trading in FX

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:27:11 -0700

A new report from Aite Group, LLC examines the use of algorithmic trading in the foreign exchange (FX) markets. The report looks at the changing market reality of the FX market, assesses the potential for growth in the adoption of FX algorithmic trading, and identifies possible pitfalls. Aite Group interviewed 12 actively trading asset managers, hedge funds, and proprietary trading firms to glean

Global Foreign Exchange Trading - The Era Of Free Liquidity

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:59:12 -0700

Dramatic growth in trading volumes and a seemingly bottomless well of liquidity are transforming global foreign exchange markets. Worldwide forex trading volume surged 36% from 2006 to 2007 among accounts interviewed by Greenwich Associates for its 2008 Global Foreign Exchange Research Study, continuing a steady run of double-digit annual growth. Banks and investment managers are increasing t

November Papers in Derivatives: SSRN

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:45:30 -0800

eDocument is available from the SSRN eLibrary for free eDocument is available, fee may apply if you or your institution do not subscribe to the publisher's journal/series Credit Derivatives and Risk Management FEDS Working Paper No. 2007-47 Michael S. Gibson Federal Reserve Board Date Posted: November 29, 2007 Joint Modeling of Call and Put Implied Volatility Katja Ahoniemi and Markk

Event:- Volatility and Correlation

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:00:00 -0800

Location: Geneva, Switzerland. Date:2009-11-09 00:00:00. Professor Tim Bollerslev The past year has seen some unprecedented changes in day-to-day asset prices within and across most financial markets, clearly highlighting the need for accurate and reliable volatility and correlation measurement, modeling, and forecasting procedures. This course surveys the most prominent volatility and correlation

Event:- Statistical Programming in R for Finance with Patrick Burns

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:00:00 -0800

Location: London, UK. Date:2009-11-09 00:00:00. The primary purpose of the course is to develop or increase skills in using R as a programming language. The exercises will be focused on statistical resampling methods and stochastic optimisation. Data examples will generally be from finance. REQUEST A BROCHURE Visit our new training site for further details. 10% Early Bird Discount before October 1

Event:- Forum on News Analytics applied to Trading and Risk Control

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:00:00 -0800

Location: Canary Wharf, London. Date:2009-11-09 16:00:00. It is widely recognised news plays a key role in financial markets. Traders and other market participants digest news rapidly and update their asset positions accordingly. The sources and volumes of news continue to grow and there is alpha generating potential in those technologies that aid intelligent and efficient processing of news. New

Event:- Central Clearing and Counterparty Credit Risk with Jon Gregory

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:00:00 -0800

Location: London, UK. Date:2009-11-16 00:00:00. What have previous delegates said about previous Counterparty Credit Courses? "Great course on everything I wanted to know about counterparty risk" - VP, KeyBank "Really extensive, practical and fun course on counterparty credit risk, great lecturer" - Managing director, CIBC world markets REQUEST A BROCHURE 10% Early Bird Discount Before October 1st

Event:- EURACE Workshop and Winter School - Agent-based Modelling and Technologies for Economic Policy Design

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:00:00 -0800

Location: School of Engineering, University of Genoa, Italy. Date:2009-11-18 00:00:00. The School lectures are focused on the design of a fully-fledged agent-based computational model and on its use for macroeconomic policy design and analysis. A successful macroeconomic policy design requires the coordinated application of economic policy measures, e.g. fiscal and monetary strategies, knowledge e

Event:- The 16th Annual Workshop on Derivative Securities and Risk Management

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:00:00 -0800

Location: Columbia University, New York City. Date:2009-11-20 00:00:00. Hosted by: The Center for Financial Engineering and The Center for Applied Probability (CAP) at Columbia University Friday, November 20th, 2009, Columbia University, New York City 9AM-6PM Location: URIS HALL, Room 142 Speakers: Michael Gordy (Federal Reserve) "Constant Proportion Debt Obligations: A Post-Mortem Analysis of Rat

Event:- Financial Crises: Causes, Characteristics, and Effects

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:00:00 -0800

Location: Perth, Australia. Date:2009-11-23 00:00:00. A three day international conference featuring research papers related to the central theme of financial crises: causes, consequences and effects. Potential topics include but are not limited to: - Crisis topology – asset pricing bubbles, mispricing, contagion, counterparty risk, transparency. - Prediction of crises, indicators, risk meas

Event:- Modern Credit Derivatives

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:00:00 -0800

Location: London, UK. Date:2009-11-30 00:00:00. The credit derivative market has changed substantially in the last two years and an understanding of these instruments is integral to making sense of today's financial markets. This three-day course provides a comprehensive view of how modern credit derivatives are used for risk management, to create profitable opportunities through trading and arbit

Event:- Factor Models In Economics and Finance

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:00:00 -0800

Location: Cass Business School, London, UK. Date:2009-12-04 00:00:00. This is the first announcement and call for papers for the international conference on "Factor Models in Economics and Finance", to be held at Cass Business School on Friday and Saturday, 4 and 5 December 2009. Recent years have seen an increasing use in economics and finance of models employing large datasets, involving the est

Event:- Mathematical Finance and Partial Differential Equations Conference

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:00:00 -0800

Location: New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. Date:2009-12-04 00:00:00. The themes of the conference are mathematical finance, computational finance, and partial differential equations. Invited Speakers Tomasz Bielecki, Illinois Institute of Technology Rene Carmona, Princeton University John Chadam, University of Pittsburgh Rama Cont, Columbia University Bruno Dupire, Bloomberg, LP Elton Hsu, Northwes

Education Tweet: Exeter BSchool News: Exeter Academic Launches Influential Report in Finland http://bit.ly/UlNH

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:32:15 -0800

Lifestyle, Luxury and Wealth Tweet: MoneyScience Lifestyle and Luxury Directory: http://bit.ly/29Znmj

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:12:27 -0800

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Hedge Fund Tweet: Citigroup is poised to relaunch the unit containing its troubled hedge fund operations - http://bit.ly/2EyTTE

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:06:50 -0800

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MoneyScience tweet: Quote: "I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often."

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:00:24 -0800

MoneyScience tweet: Bachelier Finance Society - Membership 2010: http://bit.ly/2jt503

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:10:55 -0800

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Hedge Fund Tweet: @SSRN Smart Money or Smart about Money? Evidence from Hedge Funds - http://bit.ly/38ieBs

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:23:37 -0800

hedgefundfocus: @SSRN Smart Money or Smart about Money? Evidence from Hedge Funds - http://bit.ly/38ieBs

Hedge Fund Tweet: @SSRN - Do Hedge Fund Managers Identify and Share Profitable Ideas? http://bit.ly/2qGQTG

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:23:10 -0800

hedgefundfocus: @SSRN - Do Hedge Fund Managers Identify and Share Profitable Ideas? http://bit.ly/2qGQTG

MoneyScience tweet: @SSRN - Capturing Animal Spirits in Financial Markets - http://bit.ly/2uvkxl

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:22:45 -0800

moneyscience: @SSRN - Capturing Animal Spirits in Financial Markets - http://bit.ly/2uvkxl

MoneyScience tweet: We are reaching the endgame for quantitative easing, experts declare - http://bit.ly/M1lOH

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:01:46 -0800

moneyscience: We are reaching the endgame for quantitative easing, experts declare - http://bit.ly/M1lOH

MoneyScience tweet: #FollowFriday: @FINSider, @PrakashSapkota, @tomohirotsuruga, @jimmahar, @mebfaber, @palafo, @andrewsross, @TimHarford

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:59:20 -0800

MoneyScience tweet: @mebfaber - Mebane Faber's Top Books on Investment Bubbles and Stock Distributions - http://bit.ly/mY3BS

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:51:28 -0800

moneyscience: @mebfaber - Mebane Faber's Top Books on Investment Bubbles and Stock Distributions - http://bit.ly/mY3BS

Education Tweet: Asian B-Schools Give U.S. Programs Run for Their Money - http://bit.ly/1Jd2dY

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:42:20 -0800

BusinessSchools: Asian B-Schools Give U.S. Programs Run for Their Money - http://bit.ly/1Jd2dY

Risk Management Tweet: Gillian Tett - The clearing house rules: http://bit.ly/1t38bF

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:48:06 -0800

Risk_Mgmt: Gillian Tett - The clearing house rules: http://bit.ly/1t38bF

Education Tweet: ESCP Europe News: ESCP Europe alumni dream of battling climate change http://bit.ly/2NeD1B

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:17:53 -0800

BusinessSchools: ESCP Europe News: ESCP Europe alumni dream of battling climate change http://bit.ly/2NeD1B

Lifestyle, Luxury and Wealth Tweet: The number of property millionaires in Britain has shrink almost in half since the beginning of the credit crisis. http://bit.ly/21fkw7

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:27:24 -0800

msluxury: The number of property millionaires in Britain has shrink almost in half since the beginning of the credit crisis. http://bit.ly/21fkw7

Lifestyle, Luxury and Wealth Tweet: Bonus boom will buoy luxury property market - http://bit.ly/3XdcAd

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:27:05 -0800

msluxury: Bonus boom will buoy luxury property market - http://bit.ly/3XdcAd

Risk Management Tweet: Zero Hedge: Quant Jobs So Convoluted And Opaque, Even Supervisors Have Given Up On Understanding What Is Going On http://bit.ly/3iZW9Y

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:41:06 -0800

Risk_Mgmt: Zero Hedge: Quant Jobs So Convoluted And Opaque, Even Supervisors Have Given Up On Understanding What Is Going On http://bit.ly/3iZW9Y

Risk Management Tweet: A bumper issue of Hedge Fund Focus this week - http://bit.ly/1FKaZD

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:57:42 -0800

Risk_Mgmt: A bumper issue of Hedge Fund Focus this week - http://bit.ly/1FKaZD

Link Library:- Presentation - Python and R for quantitative finance

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:52:08 -0800

Link Library:- Hedge Fund Letters

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:18:54 -0800

Link Library:- Harvard Lectures on the Emergence of Modern Economic Growth - A Comparative and Historical Analysis

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:30:21 -0700

This course is an overview and analysis of comparative economic development during the last half millennia. It examines the emergence of modern economic growth in Europe after 1500, and the forces that led to the great divergence in prosperity in the nineteenth century.

Link Library:- 101 Linkedin Groups for Financial Professionals

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:17:26 -0700

In this extensive collection we bring together more than 100 Linkedin Groups under the categories: General Finance, Risk Management, Credit Risk, Quantitative Finance, Hedge Funds, Technology and Trading.

Link Library:- A Quick, Painless Tutorial and Reference on the R Statistical Package

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:56:05 -0700

Link Library:- Financial engineering source center

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:08:11 -0700

Sci-Tech-Business Shorts - March 2009

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:29:55 -0700

Get the Sci-Tech-Business RSS Feed or Subscribe by Mail. A new search engine coming up: Wolfram Alpha. The Twitter Shorty Awards. - Twitter Etiquette. Robots!, Robots! Robots! Despite a sombre atmosphere at the World Economic Forum in Davos, young entrepreneurs are coming to the fore as Nobel prize winner Kofi Annan launches a group to give the young leaders of tomorrow a voice on global issues Wi