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The return of ABX?
On the heels of the “recap and release” of Fannie and Freddie, comes this story from Bloomberg on the continued revival of the mortgage backed securities market. Indexes based on mortgages are being...
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Random news bites.
The NYT (here) talks about items that traditional growth measures like GDP omit or mis-state. Created during the 1930’s, these tools are constantly being revamped to reflect changes in consumer tastes,...
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More on the Hound of Hounslow and Monte Paaschi
Navinder Singh Sarao, dubbed the Hound of Hounslow, is in jail for the flash crash, had Aspergers and himself got scammed (here). Shortly thereafter, there is another report by academics at Stanford...
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Fintech continues to chip away…
Technology outsmarts the human investor, MARCH 8, 2017 by: John Gapper To grasp why Standard Life agreed to buy Aberdeen Asset Management for £3.8bn this week, it helps to recall an experiment at the...
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Yours truly makes a speech at the fourth India Think-Edu conclave in March!
03-03-17-CHENNAI-EduConclave – IIM, Bangalore, Prof. S G Badrinath speaks at a session on `How can a Make in India’education be made aspirational ? IIM, Bangalore, Prof. S G Badrinath.
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Former students egg me on.
It has been that kind of week. Pierluigi writes from his job at Goldman UK, Cameron Izadi is promoted to VP at Wells Fargo, earlier Denise asks about a thesis project from Bocconi. And, I think where...
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Now copyright complaints kept me away!
A few months ago, I posted stuff about fintech, linking to pieces here and there like I usually do– web, media, materials that former students send me at fairly regular intervals. Somewhat surprised...
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Bears thinking about growling?
Tis the season yet again. As equity markets have been thrashing about, the chorus of bears permanent or otherwise is getting a little louder. Doug Kass at RMPro says he is underweight equities as much...
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Towards an equity culture in India
The enormity of the issues involved in creating greater equity market participation in India is illustrated in several of the following graphs. What are people aware of? What is owned.
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Welcome SDSU students. This website has been around for a long time, and has served as supplement to my classes both in California and in India. Some of the drop-down buttons do have content that, I...
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