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Paper [free access] by Kevin Dowd, David Blake, Andrew J. G. Cairns and Paul Dawson
A survivor swap is an agreement to exchange cash flows in the future based on the outcome of at least one survivor index. This article discusses the possible uses of survivor swaps as instruments for managing, hedging, and trading mortality-dependent risks….
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3 December, 2007| Economy | Comments (0) @ 22:49

Google and the Mind

Paper [$] Google and the Mind: Predicting Fluency With PageRank by Thomas L. Griffiths, Mark Steyvers and Alana Firl
Abstract:
Human memory and Internet search engines face a shared computational problem, needing to retrieve stored pieces of information in response to a query. We explored whether they employ similar solutions, testing whether we could predict human performance on a fluency task using PageRank, a component of the Google search engine. In this task, people were shown a letter of the alphabet and asked to name the first word beginning with that letter that came to mind. W…
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3 December, 2007| Economy | Comments (0) @ 22:34

Fundamental analysis failed.

There is a one specialty ETF from issuer Wisdomtree with ticker EZY. The fund comprise large value caps with low P/E valuation. As you can see on picture it is not even following performance of S&P500 (which has the worst YTD performance among major US broad market indices). How so?T…
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3 December, 2007| Economy | Comments (0) @ 20:58

RSS Readers: Do you copy?

Do you read Accrued Interest over RSS? If so, please visit the site and vote in the poll I just put up on the RSS subject. If I get a strong user response, I won’t change anything. If no one seems to care, I’m going to set the RSS to only show the first few lines of my posts.

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3 December, 2007| Economy | Comments (0) @ 16:44

“The Bank (of England) Look Like Fools”

The sterling interbank market has collapsed at the fastest rate in modern history.
Office for National Statistics data sourced to the Bank of England shows the volume of market loans in the banking system plunged from £640bn at the onset of the credit crunch in August to £249bn by the end of September, suggesting British lenders have been hit even harder than US banks in relative terms. Total sterling assets dropped from £3,244bn to £2,876bn.
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3 December, 2007| Economy | Comments (0) @ 11:26

Official Google Enterprise Blog: The past, present and future of email with Google Apps

some nice new features from GMail. with IMAP, their great spam filtering and this migration tool it’s finally time for me to route all my email through GOOG…
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3 December, 2007| Economy | Comments (0) @ 7:04

Remember the days when $1.25 trillion was a lot of money?

Recent estimates of the size of the hedge fund industry are all over the board. A lack of reporting standards is part of the problem. But a cultural bias toward overestimation may also be involved….
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3 December, 2007| Economy | Comments (0) @ 1:00

Edhec hedge fund replication research now online

Regular readers may recall this story we did on a research study by Edhec, the French business school, last spring. The study contained a comprehensive analysis of various so-called hedge fund replication strategies. At the time we directed you to Edhec if you wanted to buy the whole report since it wasn’t available to the […]…
Original Source: allaboutalpha.com

3 December, 2007| Economy | Comments (0) @ 0:59

Public Service Announcement: Our monthly email was sent out last week (Nov. 27)

A few of the over 2,000 subscribers to our monthly email update have commented that they aren’t receiving this regular list of most popular postings. For those who want to talk to their IT departments about this problem, here’s a heads-up that a monthly “Alpha Mail” was sent out at mid-day Eastern Time (US) on […]…
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3 December, 2007| Economy | Comments (0) @ 0:58

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