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• Senior executives with more than 30 years' experience in the European securities industry.
• Tuesday Jun 23, 14:07PM
• The models behind the financial crisis
• FP Comment's 11th Annual Junk Science Week begins with the announcement of the creation of our first annual Rubber Duck Awards for achievement in the field of junk science.
• Monday Jun 22, 9:52AM
• Why Michael Moore may jump the shark with his upcoming movie
• If his Cannes statements are representative of the film, "the wealthy," as Moore calls them, will face the brunt of his criticism...
• Thursday Jun 18, 16:38PM
• Regulating Bankers' Pay
• By Lucian A. Bebchuk and Holger Spamann
  Harvard University - Harvard Law School.
• Monday Jun 15, 9:28AM
• There is a journalism training crisis behind the financial reporting crisis
• A lack of specialist financial training led to bad reporting of the economic crisis, claims Matthew Fraser, research fellow at the INSEAD business school and adjunct professor at the American University of Paris.
• Friday Jun 12, 16:34PM
• SSRN - Papers in Derivatives - May 2009
• Derivatives research posted to the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) Pre-print Server.
• Friday Jun 12, 16:02PM
• Warning - Big Financial Firms May Be Riskier Than They Appear
• Large financial institutions have failed with much higher frequency than is generally perceived, says Andrew Kuritzkes, a partner at Oliver Wyman and head of the management consulting firm's public policy practice in North America.
• Friday Jun 12, 13:45PM
• Peter L. Bernstein, author of 'Against the Gods' died age 90, June 5th, 2009
• Peter L. Bernstein, an economic historian and a widely read popularizer of the efficient market theory, which changed trading behaviour on Wall Street, died on Friday at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell hospital. He was 90 and lived in Manhattan.
• Thursday Jun 11, 14:16PM
• Lost Robustness - financial markets and the theory of complex systems
• The key question guiding the authors' analysis here is: what properties make the financial system robust, and therefore stable?
• Wednesday Jun 10, 14:46PM
• Tools to draw your own conclusions - Morgan Stanley Matrix
• Morgan Stanley a new trading Web application for institutional clients that allows rich, real-time collaboration through chat, video, sharing of trade ideas and charts, as well as execution and trade allocation.
• Wednesday Jun 10, 10:43AM
• Help us build a demographic picture of the MoneyScience userbase
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• Tuesday Jun 09, 17:33PM
• Podcast - Riccardo Rebonato on Risk Management and the Crisis
• Riccardo Rebonato of the Royal Bank of Scotland and author of Plight of the Fortune Tellers talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the challenges of measuring risk and making decisions and creating regulation in the face of risk and uncertainty.
• Tuesday Jun 09, 15:22PM
• Slapped in the Face by the Invisible Hand - Banking and the Panic of 2007
• Gary B. Gorton writes: "The 'shadow banking system' at the heart of the current credit crisis is, in fact, a real banking system – and is vulnerable to a banking panic..."
• Monday Jun 08, 12:19PM
• Recent Papers in Quantitative Finance from arXiv - April-May 2009
• 80 papers uploaded to the Quant Finance section of the arXiv Preprint server in April and May.
• Friday Jun 05, 13:50PM
• The Gray Swan - Leo Melamed
• The text of a speech by Leo Melamed given at Peking University, Beijing, China, April, 12, 2009.
• Thursday Jun 04, 10:43AM
• The insider's guide to family offices
• At the top of Europe's Wealth Pyramid sit the family office that advise the Super-Rich. Their approach is based on independence, transparency and savvy asset allocation, and there are lessons for investors of any size.
• Monday Jun 01, 17:03PM
• Hedge Fund Focus 01-06-09
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• Monday Jun 01, 15:43PM
• Profile - Paul Wilmott in Newsweek
• "He's the only one who truly understands what's going on ... the only quant who uses his own head and has any sense of ethics..." - Nassim Taleb.
• Monday Jun 01, 10:51AM
• Reforming the Ratings Agencies - Will the US follow Europe
• "After proposing some radical and promising reforms of the regulation of the ratings industry, the SEC settled in December on the two least consequential and least controversial proposals..."
• Thursday May 28, 14:34PM
• Betas used by Professors - a survey with 2,500 answers
• Pablo Fernandez recently sent a short email to about 8,000 finance and economic professors and asking about the Beta that "we, professors, use to calculate the required return to equity". He also asked how the number was justified.
• Wednesday May 27, 15:01PM

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