Thursday, May 8th, 2008
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 digit is 1 almost one third of the time, and larger ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
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 the financial markets, as Alexander, Eatwell and Dhumale have suggested.
Instead what ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
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 better description in Hulls book which also outlines the differences to ...
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