Every now and then, this lovely city of ours grabs me by the neck and pleasantly surprises me. This Saturday armed with a camera and a trusted partner in crime, I ventured through an unassuming door on Stadium Road for just such a surprise. For what I...
Finance Training Courses celebrates 1 million page views One point one million page views and just over eleven hundred orders. Doesn’t sound like much in this day and age till you factor in that the page views are on posts related to derivative pricing, risk limits, treasury operations, pre settlement risk and Monte Carlo simulations. [...]
Preface: Models at Work I am not a Quant. I always wanted to be one but it took a single meeting with Goldman’s Firmwide risk team in London to clear any delusions I may have harbored. All remaining reservations were removed in the one PhD elective in Finance that I took with Maria Vassalou at Columbia. Despite [...]
Every year we put together a short guide for the PASHA delegation participating at the Asia Pacific ICT Awards. Here is the 2013-2014 pre Awards preparation guide for teams presenting to judges at the Asia Pacific ICT Awards. Items (1) to (5) require access to YouTube. Google Spotflux if that is an issue for you. [...]
Monte Carlo Simulation – iBook teaches how to build financial simulations in Excel. Building Monte Carlo Simulation iBook, our latest iBook on Monte Carlo Simulators in Excel is now live on the Apple iBook store. With 136 pages, 8 video lectures and 5 review sessions the iBook reviews the process of building Monte Carlo Simulators in [...]
Download Reboot for iPad without an iBook store A number of followers and friends would love to read the new Reboot, 3rd Edition, iBook on their iPads. If you have iBook 3 on your iPad you can now download a slightly scaled down version of Reboot. The scaled down version doesn’t include the videos since they [...]
Google for Entrepreneurs Week Presentation slide deck For two consecutive Saturdays, I was invited by a group of close friends to speak about Startup Failure. Last Saturday the audience was primarily students and young professionals at IBA new auditorium. This Saturday, it was a mixed group of technology and start up professionals at the Marriot at the [...]
Saw Jobs, the movie this evening. Not sure if the review debate has really gotten out of hand. Here is the low down. Yes it is not perfect and it always possible to do a better job. Steve lived a complex life, it is difficult to do justice to it i...
Why did Yahoo buy Tumbler or Facebook buy Instagram or Google buy YouTube? For Jeff or any other technology company married to the conversion game it comes down to content and traffic. While we may disagree with the opinions and orientations of the Post, the Post still has an incredible following. If you look at the [...]
Getting Published. My road to a publishing contract. The short answer is that I was incredibly lucky. I wrote and shared something on Linkedin last November that caught the eye of an editor who wrote back. Two calls, eight emails and six months later I...