https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2015/02/negative-interest-rates-are-here-to-stay.html
UnRisk Insight: Negative Interest Rates Are Here To Stay
wrote Frances Coppola at Piera a few days ago. In short, QE (and interest rate cuts) of major economic players force smaller countries to c...
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2011/07/25-financial-institutions-in-austria.html
UnRisk Insight: 2^5 Financial Institutions in Austria Selected UnRisk
With the order of an UnRisk FACTORY and VaR Universe by a capital management firm UnRisk customers grew to 32 in Austria alone this week. ...
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2010/09/how-much-wood-would-woodchuck-chuck-if.html
UnRisk Insight: How Much Wood Would A Woodchuck Chuck If A Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood?
From "Strategic Humor" in HBR Sep-10 . We, lumberjacks, could if we should - To Tree Or Not To Tree ;) This has a serious background, b...
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2013/11/negative-eigenvalues-in-practical.html
UnRisk Insight: Negative Eigenvalues in Practical Finance
Last Wednesday, I tried to focus on possible numerical difficulties when one uses a matrix that is not positive semidefinite as a correlatio...
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2014/03/industrial-mathematics-and-europe.html
UnRisk Insight: Industrial Mathematics and Europe
Some weeks ago, I attended the meeting of the ECMI council in Limerick. I will represent Linz for the next 4 years in this council. (It wa...
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2013/10/apple-rolled-out-new-things-you-may-buy.html
UnRisk Insight: Apple Rolled Out New Things You May Buy?
First up: we make UnRisk cross platform and platform agnostic. But we also recognize that there are events, where virtually incremental impr...
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2012/11/agenda-2013-accelerate.html
UnRisk Insight: Agenda 2013 - Accelerate
2012 we have released UnRisk 6 and UnRisk FACTORY 4 . It was the year of new customer segments and uses of our FACTORY based solutions as w...
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2010/09/
UnRisk Insight: 09/01/2010 - 10/01/2010
The UnRisk Options for Quant Finance
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2013/10/portfolio-optimization-and-correlation.html
UnRisk Insight: Portfolio Optimization and Correlation
As frequent readers of our blog may have noticed 'Physics Friday' has more or less become a 'Physics Weekend' post - hope despite this som...
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2011/
UnRisk Insight: 2011
The UnRisk Options for Quant Finance
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2013/01/create-more-value-than-you-can-capture.html
UnRisk Insight: Create More Value Than You Can Capture
suggests Tim O'Reilly the media CEO and web visionary who has often spotted the future coming before the rest of us. We are a comparativel...
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2014/09/switzerland-antifragile.html
UnRisk Insight: Switzerland - The Antifragile
Feb-2008 I reviewed an innovation project under the sixth framework program of the European Commission. Three days at the Research Institut...
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2012/09/
UnRisk Insight: 09/01/2012 - 10/01/2012
The UnRisk Options for Quant Finance
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2014/04/we-celebrate-555-posts.html
UnRisk Insight: We Celebrate 555 Posts
About 5 years ago the first post in UnRisk Insight was first set free into the world: the introduction of the UnRiskverse and the evolution...
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2014/04/a-little-about-food-webs-and-debt-webs.html
UnRisk Insight: A Little About Food Webs and Debt Webs
Andreas' mathematical puzzle Goats, Wolves and Lions reminded me on a general discussion, motivated by the complexity economy thinkers...
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-cloud-and-grass.html
UnRisk Insight: The Cloud and the Grass
You know that I think virtualization and cloud computing is one of the things risk managers should be thankful for in 2013 .
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2015/03/why-new-regulation-will-hit-companies.html
UnRisk Insight: Why New Regulation Will Hit Companies Hard...
explains this post at RBS Insight. Corporates need to think carefully about how the long list of new rules will affect them, their bankin...
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2013/10/streamlines-impossibility-of.html
UnRisk Insight: Streamlines, the Impossibility of Skateboarding and Model Calibration
We continue to calculate the amount of water (per second) during the 2013 flooding. To get an impression of the water level during the 2013 ...
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2012/10/utope.html
UnRisk Insight: UTOPE
U nfortunate cos T O f P attern r E cognition. This is the cover story of the Wilmott Magazine, Jul-12 issue. Apophenia is the technical na...
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-worst-kind-of-pricer.html
UnRisk Insight: The Worst Kind of Pricer
What is the use of a financial instrument pricer that calculates significant wrong prices? Randomly over- or underprice? If we knew how much...
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2014/12/quantitative-analysis-assures.html
UnRisk Insight: Quantitative Analysis Assures
I really like Diana's post of yesterday . It delves into a field where phantasies, biases, speculations bloom... I've always known it. It'...
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2013/11/magic-squares-and-algorithms-for-finance.html
UnRisk Insight: Magic Squares and Algorithms for Finance
In my recent post Equation Solving for Kids , I introduced magic squares and reported the number of magic squares of the order 4 to be 880. ...
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2013/12/unrisk-financial-language-var-scenario.html
UnRisk Insight: UnRisk Financial Language - A VaR Scenario
Recently we have written about the UnRisk Financial Language (UFL), our asset enabling quants to program in "their language". Up to now we d...
insightfinanciallanguagevarscenario
https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2014/01/we-valuate-swap-on-february-5.html
UnRisk Insight: We valuate THE swap on February 5.
Among Austrian market participants, the so-called "Swap 4175" between "the city" and "the bank" has attracted some attention. It was entere...
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2014/09/sports-noise-amplification.html
UnRisk Insight: Sports Noise Amplification
Last week, I gave a talk at the Wolfram Data Summit . Since I am a physicist without any formal education in the way of data science, it has...
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-new-unrisk-academy-event-blog.html
UnRisk Insight: The New UnRisk Academy Event Blog
A common cold has killed today's mathematics wednesday post. This is to inform you that the UnRisk Academy launched a Blog to present ...
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2014/05/math-wednesday-at-european-wolfram.html
UnRisk Insight: Math Wednesday at the European Wolfram Technology Conference 2014
Today, a short one: I am attending the final day of the EWTC 2014. I gave a talk on the City Swap in the early morning. Tom-Wickham Jones...
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2011/03/multi-strategy-and-multi-method.html
UnRisk Insight: Multi-Strategy and Multi-Method
Some time ago, I read Aaron Brown's article in Wilmott magazine Jan-11, The Education of a Quant . Locked into a single risk model? Better...
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2011/12/agenda-2012-all-new-unrisk.html
UnRisk Insight: Agenda 2012 - The All-New UnRisk
We achieved our objectives described in the Agenda 2011 . We made the box blazingly fast and even whiter. And we continuously unleashed ou...
the allinsightagendanew
https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2011/12/
UnRisk Insight: 12/01/2011 - 01/01/2012
The UnRisk Options for Quant Finance
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2013/11/with-unrisk-financial-language-quants.html
UnRisk Insight: With UnRisk Financial Language Quants Get Something Really Big
I am heading to the airport (to London), not able to write a post by the next wednesday. So I add one today - motivated by Stephen Wolfram's...
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2010/02/skyline-of-portfolio-and-risk.html
UnRisk Insight: A Risky Skyline of a Portfolio?
I like modern architecture and look frequently into Hayes Davidson . They run now a project that explores visual perception: How would you ...
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-first-workout-in-computational.html
UnRisk Insight: The First Workout in Computational Finance in London
Join us for a one days workout - 30-Jan-14 at BBA's Pinners Hall in London.
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2014/
UnRisk Insight: 2014
The UnRisk Options for Quant Finance
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2010/06/
UnRisk Insight: 06/01/2010 - 07/01/2010
The UnRisk Options for Quant Finance
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2014/03/one-reason-why-we-serve-competition.html
UnRisk Insight: One Reason Why We Serve Competition
It began 1997 with a workshop for a London based trading desk of a large American bank. The problem: they did not find an adequate pric...
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2015/02/electrons-crystals-and-attoseconds.html
UnRisk Insight: Electrons, Crystals and Attoseconds
How long does an electron need for its way through a crystal grid ? Austrian and German physicists now answered this question with an sophis...
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2014/03/fourier-cosine-expansion.html
UnRisk Insight: Fourier Cosine Expansion
The key insight of this method lies in the close relation of the characteristic function with the series coefficients of the Fourier-cosine ...
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2009/11/if-unrisk-was-bike.html
UnRisk Insight: If UnRisk was a Bike
it was most probably a YikeBike . It is rated one of the best 50 inventions of the year 2009 in Time magazine. YikeBike says: YikeBike is...
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2011/02/blazing-business-amazing-local-power.html
UnRisk Insight: Blazing Business - Amazing Local Power
UnRisk-Q . Striving for the best performance we have achieved another quite remarkable result: the calibration of a Heston model, that requi...
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2014/09/a-very-singaporean-road-sign.html
UnRisk Insight: A Very Singaporean Road Sign
This summer, I went to an opera event at the Salzburg Festival. Driving into Salzburg we came into a really heavy rain and hailstorm. I even...
insightsingaporeanroadsign
https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2015/
UnRisk Insight: 2015
The UnRisk Options for Quant Finance
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2012/09/stay-creative.html
UnRisk Insight: Stay Creative
Cover story, Wired UK Edition, Oct-12 . Ferran Adria, world-famous chef, at the cover of a magazine about the innovators building a better w...
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2013/01/finance-is-not-medicine.html
UnRisk Insight: Finance Is Not Medicine.
I frequently read Mark Buchanan's Blog The Physics of Finance and I enjoy reading it and being interested in complex systems (complex econo...
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2013/10/novel-fever-economics-prize-nod-in.html
UnRisk Insight: Nobel Fever - The Economics Prize A Nod In Opposite Directions?
No Nobel fever has been broken out here at UnRisk. How should it, there are so many comments from economists ..... Concentrating on Eugene...
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2012/06/risk-management-and-innocence-of-banana.html
UnRisk Insight: Risk Management and the Innocence of the Banana Peel
In risk-management-illustrated articles, you often find the banana peel. This shall suggest that it is dangerous, if you don't see it on the...
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2012/11/unleashing.html
UnRisk Insight: Unleashing .....
We have unleashed the programming power behind UnRisk.
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2013/10/all-random-with-this-matrix.html
UnRisk Insight: All Random with this Matrix
On our way from billiards to quantitative finance we stopped at quantum chaos in last "Physics Friday" blog post. Without going to deep into...
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-freedom-of-financial-language.html
UnRisk Insight: The Freedom of a Financial Language
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2014/11/unrisk-goes-to-tampere.html
UnRisk Insight: UnRisk goes to Tampere
I have been invited as a speaker to the CMMP AUTUMN SCHOOL: BASICS OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE CALCULATIONS TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY,...
insightgoestampere
https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2014/10/no-chief-executive-quant-on-board.html
UnRisk Insight: No Chief Executive Quant on Board?
RBS has an excellent quant team. They introduce(d) innovative solutions, explain(ed) how they work at conferences, open workshops...and desc...
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2013/01/11-years-of-unrisk-event-inside-summary.html
UnRisk Insight: 11 Years of UnRisk Event - an Inside Summary
In Do I Remember? I summarized remarkable experiences of 2012 of which our event celebrating 11years of UnRisk were one of the most insight...
insightyearseventinsidesummary
https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2013/01/model-testosterone-skews.html
UnRisk Insight: Model Testosterone Skews?
The article in the UK issue of Wired, Jan-13 titled "Why Men Risk It All" refers to John Coates' research on psychology and risk taking. Jo...
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2009/12/step-across-border.html
UnRisk Insight: Step Across the Border
is the title of an experimental-music film and CD from the music professor Fred Frith ( I mentioned it in Nowhere to Run ). The following...
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https://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2013/06/
UnRisk Insight: 06/01/2013 - 07/01/2013
The UnRisk Options for Quant Finance
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