Understanding CMO, CDO and CDS The third part of the Big Short Case Study that traces the origin of the mortgaged backed CMO CDO CDS product sets referenced in the book and the film. The terms stand for Collateralize Mortgage Obligation (CMO), Collateralize Debt Obligation (CDO) and

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The community wins at the Nestio Startup Weekend, Karachi. If you need to feel the buzz in Karachi, the Nestio is a good bet to get an instant triple shot of positive vibe, optimism and hope. On any given evening the community tends to be

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Big Short Takeaways for investors and traders – II Part two of our three part series on The Big Short Case Study for value investors and fixed income traders. In our first post we reviewed the context of the book, characters and the Credit Default Swap

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The Big Short case study. For value investors and portfolio managers. For portfolio management and fixed income students the 2008 – 2009 financial crisis represents a terrific learning opportunity.  As I teach portfolio management to Executive MBA students I have started to use a class room

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The Big Short case study. For value investors and portfolio managers. For portfolio management and fixed income students the 2008 – 2009 financial crisis represents a terrific learning opportunity.  As I teach portfolio management to Executive MBA students I have started to use a class room

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The Big Short case study. For value investors and portfolio managers. For portfolio management and fixed income students the 2008 – 2009 financial crisis represents a terrific learning opportunity.  As I teach portfolio management to Executive MBA students I have started to use a class room

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Higher moment Portfolio models. Skewness preference. So far in the portfolio optimization course our focus has been on single dimension analytics. With both risk and performance we have only looked at one metric at a time. While our Solver models have worked with multiple constraints,

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Debunking Finance data science myths. An actuary and a computer scientist looks back in order to debunk finance data science myths. When I first started working with models, the phenomenon that fascinated me the most was changes in stock market prices.  This was in an

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Slower than the Flash. Bigger than a duck. The last twelve months have been a big mix of surprises and personal milestones. I have managed to live a year with reduced working hours, limiting office to just the first half of the day. I lost

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