Fund management in general

One of the things I'd most like to happen in finance is for a science mindset to take hold. Perhaps this would happen more if society as a whole [...]

What would happen if I jumped the turnstile at my local tube station?  Well okay, duck under in my case. Best case: people glare at me like I'm scum.  [...]

All About Alpha has a post called Insider traders: rogues or whistleblowers? It is a pleasantly disturbing look at insider trading in that it challenges the reflex reaction that [...]

There are two types of technology: Good (does exactly as wanted, with no hassle) Primitive (all the rest) This classification has been instilled into me by my wife. The [...]

The game ARORA (A random or real array) is a website that gives you two time series at a time. Your job is to guess which series is real [...]

We'll get to "antisocial" via a look at a chapter in The Future of Finance from the London School of Economics. The chapter in question is "Why are financial [...]

This arrives via Marginal Revolution. But note that there is a check mark missing: Psychic fund management.

Your happiness probably lies outside this book. Fund management If you think this topic remote from fund management, I think you're wrong. Suppose that we deliver a lot of [...]

There's a hole in the bucket of traditional economics. Homo socialus seems to be on the rise, and homo economicus is getting harder to find. Vulcanism has become evident [...]

Finance textbooks say that more volatile assets should have higher returns. The volatility puzzle is that that doesn't always hold true.  You should be getting used to textbooks not [...]