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Hedge Funds and Benfords Law
Glyn Holton wrote an article about how to detect fraud in the reports by Hedge Funds: using Benford’s Law. Benford’s law, also called the first-digit law, states that in lists of numbers from many real-life sources of data, the leading … Continue reading
Intergovernmentalism in Financial Regulation
Puzzling Complexity The global financial architecture is very complex. Despite increasing liberalization of financial markets, increased system risk and integration of the economies through the financial markets in the last 30 years, there is no single World Financial Authority regulating … Continue reading
What is a Hedge Fund (or how do they differ from mutual funds)?
Anthony Clake, who is working at Marshall Wace had to give a definition of what Hedge Funds are at the London School of Economics Alternative Investment Conference. He referred to the Wikipedia-Entry on Hedge Funds, but I found an even … Continue reading