financial models
Validation of Risk Management Models for Financial Institutions, through a set of thoughtful articles, describes how effective structuring and testing of the modeling techniques used in risk management can support better financial decision making.
Registration is open for the 70th CFA Institute Annual Conference, held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 21–24 May 2017.
Jason Voss, CFA, provides his picks for this week's edition of Weekend Reads. This post-US presidential election pick-me-up features principles of non-violent communication, the dangers of p-values, time crystals, and more.
Investment professionals recognize that the markets are messy places, filled with less than rational participants. From their perspective, this can obviate any further discussion about the value of academic finance and its models. But this puts too high a threshold on the measure of academia.
“Many people who are lower- and middle-income really are taking a big risk if they do not annuitize to some extent — a risk of basically running out of money,” he tells the FT‘s John Authers.
A trio of entrepreneurs explain how their startup companies are harnessing the power of social media and online collaboration to enhance investment research.
Thinknum is an open architecture, distributed computing site for aggregating financial data and financial models. Here is an interview with their founders, Justin Zhen and Gregory Ugwi.
In these Financial Analysts Journal articles, Cliff Asness discusses quantitative research — the force behind his firm’s dramatic growth to manage US$80 billion in assets.
At the 67th CFA Institute Annual Conference, statistician and author Nate Silver will discuss how to avoid turning big data into mangled data.
Today retirees face five perils: inflation, investment, longevity, withdrawal, and healthcare risk. Providend CEO Christopher Tan says retirees need a plan not only to cope with these risks but also to provide reliable income.