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The Quant Mystique
October 31, 2011 @ 08:20 AM | By Larry Tabb
Why is the mystique of software code more important than the surety of security?
continued...Ruth Madoff's Suicide Attempt
October 27, 2011 @ 10:58 AM | By Phil Albinus
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Pipeline’s Misuse of Client Information
October 25, 2011 @ 12:23 PM | By Ivy Schmerken
As a journalist who wrote about Pipeline many times over the past 7 years, I can’t believe the firm would deceive its clients about how and where it was executing trades.
continued...Who’s Afraid of Volatility?
October 25, 2011 @ 10:18 AM | By Ivy Schmerken
Todd Hurlbut of Everett Capital Management uses algorithms and dark pools to cope with volatility in equities and alternative asset classes. Find out what this buy side trader thinks of HFT.
continued...Proposed Taxes on High-Frequency Trading Won't Become Law
October 24, 2011 @ 11:30 AM | By Justin Grant
High-frequency trading has become quite the punching bag for overseas governing bodies in recent months, but for the time being it appears that those who rely on it may escape being taxed for it.
continued...Hedge Funds Wake Up to Transparency
October 19, 2011 @ 11:42 AM | By Ivy Schmerken
The veil of secrecy has caused a problem for hedge funds and led to Dodd Frank, says an AT Summit panelist.
continued...Algos Behaving Badly
October 19, 2011 @ 11:07 AM | By Phil Albinus
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Inside a Hands-On Quant Firm
October 18, 2011 @ 08:37 AM | By Phil Albinus
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A Quant Prof Shares Career Advice
October 15, 2011 @ 16:50 PM | By Phil Albinus
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Occupy Wall Street To Stay in Zuccotti Park For Now
October 14, 2011 @ 09:47 AM | By Phil Albinus
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Insider Raj Gets 'Light' 11-Year Sentence
October 13, 2011 @ 12:21 PM | By Justin Grant
Raj Rajaratnam, the former head of the Galleon Group hedge fund, was just hit with the longest sentence ever doled out for insider trading, but his penalty still pales in comparison to those of recent high-profile Wall Street criminals.
continued...Volatility Derailed Quant Funds in Q3 and Clouds Their Outlook
October 11, 2011 @ 11:21 AM | By Justin Grant
Beneath the cacophony of screaming headlines about the European debt crisis, Occupy Wall Street and the slumping U.S. economy lays the struggles that quantitative hedge funds have recently endured.
continued...Financiers Yawn As Occupy Wall Street Gains Momentum
October 06, 2011 @ 12:23 PM | By Justin Grant
The thousands of protesters who converged on New York's financial district Wednesday are a clear sign the Occupy Wall Street movement is gaining momentum, but folks within the industry are greeting the demonstrations with a collective yawn.
continued...The Steve Jobs Revolution
October 06, 2011 @ 11:57 AM | By Phil Albinus
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Exchanges Must Choose Between Domination or Irrelevance
October 06, 2011 @ 08:45 AM | By Larry Tabb
Exchanges face a stark choice: world domination or isolation. Meanwhile, local regulators must decide whether to allow their markets to play in a risky world.
continued...Quant: "Volatility? Bring It On!"
October 04, 2011 @ 13:52 PM | By Phil Albinus
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Michael Lewis’ Boomerang Sees Frightening Future for Global Finance
October 04, 2011 @ 11:49 AM | By Justin Grant
Lewis’ latest effort picks up where the global financial crisis of 2008 left off, with indebted governments facing their own days of reckoning after years of irresponsible borrowing and spending.
continued...Occupy Wall Street Gains Steam Without Clear Agenda
October 03, 2011 @ 13:13 PM | By Justin Grant
Although it remains unclear what the protesters are looking to gain from all of this, at the heart of the movement lays the widening gap between rich and poor, and the persistent joblessness that has played out since the crash of the global markets in 2008.
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