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November 2009 ( 97 Entries )

11-28: Using Twitter @Replys and Direct Messages (2)
11-28: Top 10 Financial Reasons Blessings This Year (0)
11-23: 8 Investing Lessons From John Paulson (1)
11-19: US President Obama visits China (Pictures) (2)
11-19: Metallgesellschaft’s Case (2)
11-19: Bank Fees You Don’t Know You’re Paying (0)
11-19: conversion factor (0)
11-19: Core Reading Versus AIMS (0)
11-19: Regression (0)
11-19: FRM L1 exam format (0)
11-19: Why is small actual volatitlity profitable for a long call option? (1)
11-18: Black & Scholes Formula Changue for different instruments (3)
11-18: ABX protection buyer (0)
11-18: PRM Exam Question-Need help (1)
11-18: Are Chinese exports good for U.S. economy? (0)
11-18: Basel II and Insurance Companies (0)
11-18: Regression (0)
11-18: FRM 2007 q115 – Asset and liability duration (1)
11-18: Warren Buffett investments: businessman extraordinaire (0)
11-18: LDA bottom-up approach not forward looking (0)
11-18: Suspected Mistake in FRM Practice question – Credit Spread Put Option (0)
11-17: Full Practice FRM 2009 – Question 22 (0)
11-17: Bond VaR question (0)
11-17: calculate credit VaR with PD (0)
11-17: Annotated Full Exam II (Practice) Q19 (0)
11-17: Inverse floater’s VAR (0)
11-17: Annotate Full Exam II (Practice) Questions 15a and 15c (0)
11-17: Portfolio Management Question (0)
11-17: US President Obama in Forbidden City (2)
11-17: US President Barack Obama Visits China (Photograph) (2)
11-17: Lower Bound of Euopean Currency Put (0)
11-17: What is Risk Adjusted Performance (RAP) ? (0)
11-17: Some Quick Clarification needed on percentile VAR and Uniform VAR (0)
11-16: Stress Testing Vs Scenario Analysis Vs Backtesting (0)
11-16: relationship between CF and maturity/coupon? (0)
11-16: 6 Simple Steps to $1 Million (0)
11-16: Relationship between Haircut and Leverage (0)
11-16: Inconsistency Noticed – Surplus VAR (0)
11-16: FRM 2002 q78 – Reducing Credit Risk (0)
11-16: Currency Var – How to solve (0)
11-16: Very quick Clarification Needed on bond duration formula (2)
11-16: Suspected Mistake in Level I Annotated Boot Camp (0)
11-15: A very quick point to clarify about Stock Process (0)
11-15: A very quick point to clarify about Stock Process (0)
11-15: Presentation 7d OpRisk Error? (0)
11-15: Practice Questions for Level II by Topic? (0)
11-15: FRM 2002 q26 – FX Swap (0)
11-15: Spreadsheet 6f2 Total Firm Value < Total debt??? (0)
11-15: Performance analysis (0)
11-15: FRM 2002 q4 – VaR question (1)
11-15: Growing Annuity – Time value question (1)
11-15: Question (0)
11-15: sticky rules (0)
11-15: A simple question about capital arbitrage (1)
11-15: Something basic about Expected Shortfall (ES) (0)
11-15: Some basic relationship between economic capital & regulatory capital (2)
11-15: Doubts over practice question – arbitrage trade and risk hedge (0)
11-15: Credit Spread Derivatives and Credit Default Hedging (0)
11-15: Suspected Mistake in Level II Annotated (0)
11-15: Confusion over your answer to P&L impacts ranking for a MBS (0)
11-15: Suspected Mistake in Level I Annotated Boot Camp (0)
11-15: Confusion over relationship between Information Ratio and Beta (0)
11-15: Important Difference in Information Ratio Formula (0)
11-15: Differences between Stop-loss strategy and dynamic hedging (0)
11-15: Heavy Tail and Changing Volatility (0)
11-15: Confusions over OLS (0)
11-15: Probability of a X event (0)
11-15: Normal Distribution (0)
11-15: Variance and Covariance (0)
11-15: Distribution and Std Deviation (0)
11-14: NASA finds water on the moon (0)
11-14: 15,000 Registration for FRM Exam 2009 (0)
11-13: 2012 (Columbia Pictures) (2009) (0)
11-12: Review session and Quick Sheet (0)
11-11: the big snowstorm attacked six provinces in China (0)
11-11: Important FRM Exam Prep Information – Schweser.com (2)
11-11: FRM Program Going to Two Levels – Schweser.com (0)
11-11: 2008 FRM Exam Results (0)
11-10: Modern Warfare 2, the biggest video game of the year, debuts (1)
11-10: Is Warren Buffett’s Railway Buy a Billion Dollar Bet on Big Coal? (0)
11-08: An Introduction to Stock Options (2)
11-08: Chinese premier pledges funds, aid to Africa (0)
11-06: Is the creation blind your eyes? (0)
11-06: Details emerge about Fort Hood suspect’s history (0)
11-06: Oil prices tumble after US unemployment report (0)
11-06: FRM vs PRM (0)
11-06: Monte Carlo and GBM (0)
11-06: Windows 7 upgrade version: The dos and don’ts (0)
11-05: Financial Risk Manager Handbook (Wiley Finance) (Paperback) (1)
11-03: Donald L Kohn: International perspective on the crisis and response (0)
11-03: Financial reforms: what are the common lessons for prudential supervisors? (5)
11-03: Space Hotel Slated to Open in 2012 (0)
11-02: Heng Swee Keat: The next stage – policy challenges in Asia (0)
11-02: China in a Bubble? (4)
11-02: NEW!!! HQ! Call of duty modern warfare 2: Fight against grenade spam (0)
11-02: Understanding Liquidity and Modern Market Volatility (1)
11-01: The first snow this year comes to Beijing. (0)

October 2009 ( 25 Entries )

10-29: The Movie Trailer of Men Who Stare at Goats (0)
10-29: Happy 80th anniversary 1929 stock crash (0)
10-28: Michael Jackson’s THIS IS IT in theaters October 28. (0)
10-28: NASA Launches Ares I-X Rocket HQ Pictures (3)
10-28: Humor time, laugh out loudly now. (6) (0)
10-28: Humor time, laugh out loudly now. (5) (0)
10-28: Humor time, laugh out loudly now. (4) (0)
10-28: Humor time, laugh out loudly now. (3) (0)
10-27: Humor time, laugh out loudly now. (2) (0)
10-27: Humor time, laugh out loudly now. (1) (0)
10-25: What’s a P/E? (And 9 other ‘dumb’ questions) (2)
10-25: 5 steps to losing your money (0)
10-25: 10 investing basics from Buffett (0)
10-25: 8 costly mistakes investors make (4)
10-25: Astro Boy (0)
10-25: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (0)
10-25: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2)
10-24: FRM 2008 Practice PIII question 31 – Foreign Bonds (0)
10-23: Hull.19.11 (GARCH forecast; difficult) (0)
10-22: duration of IO (0)
10-21: Hull.19.05 (0)
10-18: FRM 2008 Practice PII question 7 – pfol insurance using index futures (0)
10-18: FRM 2008 Practice PI question 30 – One large vs. many small exposures (0)
10-18: FRM 2008 Practice PI question 27 – Asset vs. Equity volatility (0)
10-13: Hull.18.01 (0)

September 2009 ( 5 Entries )

09-30: FRA mapping (0)
09-22: Government shareholding in banks: discontinue the medication, or complete the course? (0)
09-08: Changes to the Disclosure of Corporate Risk Management Governance Practices (0)
09-03: Limit Order versus Stop Order (0)
09-03: Stress-Testing (0)

August 2009 ( 6 Entries )

08-20: Hull.22.17 (0)
08-14: To VaR or not to VaR (0)
08-13: Hull.13.08 (0)
08-12: Whither Risk Management? (0)
08-07: CFTC Takes Aim at Energy Speculation (0)
08-06: The CRO of Tomorrow: Empowered, Equipped, and Engaged (0)

July 2009 ( 19 Entries )

07-30: “Risk Governance: let us start with the Board of Directors” (0)
07-27: Compensation (0)
07-22: Some thoughts on the Walker Review (continued) (0)
07-22: Hull.07.05 (0)
07-22: Hull.07.03 (0)
07-21: Some thoughts on the Walker Review (continued) (0)
07-20: Some thoughts on the Walker Review (0)
07-20: Here are my recommendations for key elements to the solutions. (0)
07-19: Hull.06.02 (0)
07-16: Here are my thoughts on the 4 big challenges to derivatives regulation: (0)
07-14: Derivative regulation: want a rock or a hard place? (0)
07-09: Question 39: Liquidy-adjusted VaR (0)
07-09: Question 24: Bank Alpha (0)
07-09: Question 20: Operational Risks (0)
07-09: Question 11: KMV Model (0)
07-09: Question 9: Credit Basket Swap (0)
07-09: Question 4: Beta Bank (0)
07-09: Question 1: S&P Futures Contract (0)
07-02: Merton model for credit risk (Question 8) (0)

June 2009 ( 1 Entries )

06-29: Question 1 (portfolio var) (0)

May 2009 ( 2 Entries )

05-28: Question 15 (DV01 of Treasury Bond) (0)
05-10: FRM Exam 2009 (0)

March 2009 ( 1 Entries )

03-08: FRM Vs CFA for Quant Job/ Risk management (0)

February 2009 ( 3 Entries )

02-22: CFA along with FRM (0)
02-18: Bond Potpourri (0)
02-07: Which companies would recruit you if you are FRM? (0)

January 2009 ( 1 Entries )

01-26: Introduction (0)

November 2008 ( 1 Entries )

11-12: contango and backwardation of commodity (0)