As climate change progresses over the coming decades, a widening rangeof sectors will experience climate change-related damages. Climate outcomes, however, are subject to a high degree of uncertainty due to not only the socio-economic dynamics […]
CoCo (Contingent Convertible) or AT1 (Additional Tier 1) Bonds have been receiving some attention recently due to a confluence of factors. In no particular order these include the fact that $40bn worth of contracts are […]
Vola Dynamics provides analytics for options trading and risk management,as well as portfolio, PnL, and scenario analysis. Since its founding in New York in 2016, it has quickly established itself as the only third-party vendor […]
Depending on context, the word “fix” can mean “set” or “determine,” “manipulate” or “rig,” as well as “repair” or “correct.” “In a fix” means to be in difficulty. In colloquial use, a “fix” is a […]
Anybody who writes exams or performs job interviews knows the value of questions. If they are based on true stories or statements, even better. To my delight this showed up in my Twitter timeline: (Let […]
You’re at a fund that doesn’t want to burn headcount hiring their own data, storage, and sysadmin team, and you’re not alone. Financial institutions of all sizes realize that it is expensive to meet the […]
In this article we present a new approach for automatic adjoint differentiation (AAD) with a special focus on computations where derivatives ∂F(X)/∂X are required for multiple instances of vectors X. In practice, the presented approach […]
Financial decision making is typically concerned with the amount of investment capital to allocate to various assets or asset classes in various financial markets. The opportunity set can be very complex, with sets of […]
In the following, I will say what the smile problem is, and I am not sure everyone will follow me. This is how deeply and how long I’ve been thinking about the smile problem. I’ve […]
The 1977 science fiction movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind was written and directed by Steven Spielberg. The title is derived from the classification by Hynek for close encounters with aliens, in which the […]
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