17 March 2010 0 Comments

Forecasting Volatility in the Financial Markets, Third Edition (Quantitative Finance)

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Forecasting Volatility in the Financial Markets, Third Edition (Quantitative Finance) By Stephen Satchell, John Knight Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Number Of Pages: 432 Publication Date: 2007-04-06 ISBN-10 / ASIN: 075066942X ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780750669429 Product Description: This new edition of Forecasting Volatility in the Financial Markets assumes that the reader has a firm grounding in the key [...]

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13 March 2010 0 Comments

Financial Markets: Human Foibles, Fraud, Manipulation, and Regulation (Part 8)

Regulation of financial and securities markets is intended to protect investors while still enabling them to make personal investment decisions. Psychological phenomena, such as magical thinking, overconfidence, and representativeness heuristic can cause deviations from rational behavior and distort financial decision-making. However, regulation and regulatory bodies, such as the SEC, FDIC, and SIPC, most of which [...]

12 March 2010 1 Comment

The Housing Price Conundrum in Plain English – Mortgage-Backed Securities

Part I of the introduction to mortgage-backed securities Part II of the introduction to mortgage-backed securities More on mortgage-backed securities

12 March 2010 0 Comments

The Housing Price Conundrum in Plain English – Introduction

This is one of 14 different videos if you have a home, thinking of buying a home or had a home and is now wondering why your living in a box. this is a good explanation of whats going on. When I’ve tired to read books on the subject I just get all con-foozed. because [...]

11 March 2010 0 Comments

The 10 Books to Help You Understand the Crisis

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Citation: G, Cardiff, The 10 books to help you understand the crisis, Jun 2009, Available at: http://tinyurl.com/qsfdoz, Accessed 11 March 2010 Not surprisingly, the number of books about the causes and consequences of the financial crisis has proliferated in recent months. To help our readers keep up, Financial News has compiled the following list of 10 finance [...]

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