Teaching computational finance to ordinary mortals. Time sure flies when you are having fun. It’s been 7 years and change since we first started this project as an experiment. An initial dump of class notes for my students that over time grew into eleven hundred

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Teaching computational finance to ordinary mortals. Time sure flies when you are having fun. It’s been 7 years and change since we first started this project as an experiment. An initial dump of class notes for my students that over time grew into eleven hundred

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The positive correlation stress test When it comes to stress testing market portfolios one idea has been finding increasing traction with risk management teams.  The 100% positive correlation stress test. The concept is simple. We opt for a diversified portfolio because we want to reduce

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The positive correlation stress test When it comes to stress testing market portfolios one idea has been finding increasing traction with risk management teams.  The 100% positive correlation stress test. The concept is simple. We opt for a diversified portfolio because we want to reduce

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Portfolio Management final exam We have now run three batches of portfolio management students at two different executive MBA program. The next batch will most likely be at the SP Jain Dubai campus in early July, 2017. Here is a second sample for portfolio management final

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Synthetic CDO – The Goldman Mike Burry Big Short Trade Before the 2008 financial crisis the incentive for investors to buy mortgage backed securities was simple. For roughly the same implied credit risk as US sovereign risk you had the option to earn excess returns.

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