Category Archives: Events
Thalesians and other upcoming events
Real Soon Now Thalesians (London) 2012 May 16 Matthew Dixon “A Bayesian Approach to Discovering Private Companies for Private Equity Investments”. Details of the event. Thalesians (New York) 2012 May 17 Attilio Meucci “Liquidity-, Funding- and Market-Risk” Details of the event. Other new events Thalesians (San Francisco) 2012 May 30 Jeremy Evnine “Accidental Quant”. I … Continue reading
Posted in Events
Leave a comment
London Quant Group and other upcoming events
London Quant Group Monday 2012 January 30 starting at 6.30pm, to be held at the offices of BlackRock, 12 Throgmorton Avenue, London. Jason MacQueen speaking on “The Structure of Equity Risk Models”. Abstract:There are a number of different ways to build equity risk models, and some are demonstrably better than others. This talk will first … Continue reading
Posted in Events
Leave a comment
Upcoming events
New events QWAFAFEW-NYC 2011 November 29 5:30PM Midtown: Barry Feldman on “Stability – A New Dimension of Equity Style” and Dan diBartolomeo on “Five Easy Steps to Fixing the Credit Ratings Agencies” Abstract: Russell’s new defensive and dynamic indexes identify a new dimension of equity style Russell calls Stability. Russell has just launched global Stability … Continue reading
Posted in Events
Leave a comment
News Analytics Workshop and other events
Some upcoming events. News Analytics Applied to Trading, Fund Management and Risk Control News interacts with markets. This workshop will explore news feeds and models that are used to try to understand that interaction. Researchers from CARISMA at Brunel University and their collaborators — including people from Thomson Reuters and Ravenpack — will be the … Continue reading
Posted in Events
Leave a comment
14-10 and other upcoming London events
This week 14-10 2011 October 06 (7:30PM start) at the Royal Institution the inaugural event of the 14-10 club will take place. Speakers will be David Harding, Alex Lipton and Chris Bishop. Membership is £350 per year, and places are limited. There is also a trial membership that is £35 per month. To apply for … Continue reading
Posted in Events
Leave a comment
Don’t stop believing
The document is “Don’t stop believing: The state and future of UK occupational pensions” by Con Keating. Overview It seems to me that pensions are hard. Me, I just do easy things like write genetic algorithms for the fast, efficient generation of random portfolios and the optimization of portfolios. But Con gives pensions a go, … Continue reading
Registration closing for UseR! 2011
Friday July 22 is the last day on which you can register for UseR! 2011 at the University of Warwick. The conference will be 2011 August 16-18. You can peruse the book of abstracts and view the draft schedule. I am scheduled to give a talk on “Random input testing with R”. The abstract is: … Continue reading
MoneyScience is reborn
The MoneyScience website has recently had a dramatic change. It now has a social infrastructure, and the resources are better organized. Here I report on the discoveries I’ve made so far in the bit of time that I’ve been poking about on the site. Events There is a calendar of events that is organized by … Continue reading
Talking The R Journal latest release
Volume 3/1 of The R Journal has been released. It of course has articles about using R. In addition it has a feature that I highly support. In preparation for the UseR! Conference 2011 August 16-18 in Coventry there are two Help Desk articles on making a good technical presentation. Technical presentation Rob Hyndman writes … Continue reading
Upcoming Events
2011 March 08, 8:00 AM, London EDHEC Risk Institute presents: Raman Uppal How to (or how not to) manage money New approaches for portfolio construction. Admission is free, but registration (soon) is required. More details in the brochure (pdf) 2011 March 08 6PM, London The LondonR meeting. Details at http://www.londonr.org/ 2011 March 09 6:30, New … Continue reading
