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Free Markets and the End of History

An interview with Milton Friedman.

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"The world is our laboratory": A Profile of Myron S. Scholes

Cosma Shalizi wrote this profile for the journal Quantitative Finance in its early days.

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A day in the life of Dr. Richard Olsen - founder of Oanda

Chairman and CEO of Olsen, Dr. Richard Olsen holds a Licentiate in Law from the University of Zurich (1979), a Masters in Economics from Oxford University (1980) and a Ph.D. from the University of Zurich (1981). He worked in banking as a researcher and foreign exchange dealer before founding Olsen in 1985 and becoming the firm’s Chief Executive Officer. He is also CEO of OANDA.

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A driving force behind physics and finance: A profile of Alex Lipton (pdf)

A Profile of Professor Alexander Lipton-Lifschitz, former New York head of foreign exchange product development, Deutsche Bank.

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Akash Bandyopadhyay: From Theoretical Physics to Finance

In this interview Akash Bandyopadhyay explains how he made the transition from Natural Science to Financial Economics and become a faculty member atone of the world's top business schools in a short span of only five years.

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AnalyticBridge

A social network for Analytic Professionals based on the popular ning platform.

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Christopher Hohn, the man in the middle

Everybody wanted to see and hear the man who, with just 8% of the equity, forced the Deutsche Bourse to abandon its takeover bid for its London rival and then sack its chief executive, Werner Seifert.

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CityFile

Cityfile.com is a guide to the most notable and influential New Yorkers, more than 2,100 people divided into 27 industry categories.

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Eugene Fama - My Life in Finance

Eugene Fama's professional autobiography for the Annual Review of Financial Economics.

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GuruFocus

GuruFocus tracks the Stock Picks and Portfolio Holdings of Warren Buffett, George Soros and other guru investors like Charles Brandes, Seth Klarman, T Boone Pickens, Kenneth Fisher, Richard Aster Jr, Brian Rogers, Ron Baron, Glenn Greenberg, Ian Cumming, Richard Pzena.

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Having the Edge on the Market

Ken Kurson profiles Ed Thorp.

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Interview with Dean LeBaron

Dean LeBaron was with an investment services firm when he became interested in cutting-edge economic theories about portfolio management. One insight that captured his imagination was that a kind of complexity science based on computer models could be applied to portfolios to spread risk across many stocks with particular characteristics. He launched Batterymarch to apply these concepts to real-world investing and was among the first to use computer models to manage investment portfolios.

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Nassim Taleb on the BBC

Taleb rails against prediction in this 6 minute clip from the BBC.

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Profile: David Einhorn, Greenlight Capital

As a hedge fund manager, David Einhorn might be expected to be a typical competitive poker player. Except that he doesn't play a lot of poker.

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Reflexivity In Social Systems - The Theories of George Soros (pdf)

By Stuart A. Umpleby, The George Washington University Washington, DC.

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Stock Market - Rare Events, A French Physicist in Finance (1999)

A short profile of Jean-Phillipe Bouchaud (CEA Saclay, Science & Finance)

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The Ultimate Investor: The People and Ideas that Make Modern Investment

By Dean LeBaron and Romesh Vaitilingam.

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Worldwide Directory of Finance Faculty

This directory, jointly sponsored by the Ohio State Department of Finance and the American Finance Association can help you locate phone numbers, addresses and home pages of finance faculty and finance professionals worldwide.

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