SP Jain EMBA Entrepreneurship Course – Dubai 2014

Teaching Entrepreneurship in Dubai – February 2014 So after an absence of 8 months I finally managed to make it back to the SP Jain campus in Dubai. Occasion? The entrepreneurship course for the Executive MBA batch at the Dubai Campus.   In my absence the campus has gone through a round of renovations and the bright yellow [...]

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Models at Work – The new text book on risk management. Now available in Karachi

Our first batch of 30 copies for Models at Work, the new text book on risk management arrived earlier this week. Copies are available at Rs. 6,500 plus delivery charges while stock lasts. Order yours now.  

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The Market Risk reading list for new hires.

Market Risk Management – Reading List Here my reading list for new members of our risk team at work. The book list covers market risk tools, metrics, philosophy and two books that provide a great review of the financial crisis. Market Risk – Do it yourself Guides Beyond Value at Risk: The New Science of Risk Management (Frontiers [...]

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The ten things you should not do as a startup.

The startup failure cheat sheet. The ten things you should not do as a startup. Once upon a time in a different life I wrote a book on failure. It was a summarized edition of everything that went wrong at the three start up I founded that failed. It was my not-to-do list. Here is a [...]

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Now a QAS Sponsor for NASBA National CPE self study program registry. Finance Track

Now a QAS Sponsor for NASBA National CPE self study program registry. We are very proud and happy to announce our recent status change as an approved NASBA National QAS Sponsor for the CPE self study program registry. It was a year long process that helped us rework with our learning interface and our delivery [...]

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Buy Models at Work now at 50% off before 31st December 2013.

Risk Text book, Models at work, available at 50% off. Palgrave Macmillan is running a special year end and launch promotion for Models at Work. For orders placed before 31st December 2013, directly at the Palgrave Macmillan website, Models at Work is available at a special price of GBP 22.5. At 50% off the 650+ page [...]

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Karen County Lodges. The Kenya you wanted to see, but didn’t.

My first trip to Nairobi was interesting. I had heard a great deal about Africa and imagined a hotel room with wide open space and lush green background. The trip was work related so it wasn’t too much of a disappointment when I had to settle for a heated pool, a gym, a view [...]

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Rayong, Laem Mae Phim Beach – Thailand.

For those of you who know me well, I am a sucker for beaches and old friends. When I get an opportunity to combine both, which now increasingly tends to happen in and around the Asia Pacific ICT Awards, I jump at it. Somkiat at Wealth Managment is a friend that Fawzia, Jehan and I [...]

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Models at Work – now available for sale on Amazon.com

Models at Work – Now available for sale on Amazon.com Models at work, the new text book for practical risk management is now available for sale on Amazon.com. The book’s electronic edition will hit the store on 13th December 2013, just two weeks before yearend. The print edition will be available in stores on 8th [...]

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Is the world today more volatile? Measuring volatility across markets.

Measuring volatility across markets and asset classes. Pick the right method Here are questions that I recently asked in a workshop that I ran on trading volatility. Was 2004 as a year, more volatile than 2008? Was 2012 a good year for volatility? For a trader in volatility is Brent a better trade than [...]

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