[ad_1] Undiversified: The Big Gender Short in Investment Management. 2021. Ellen Carr and Katrina Dudley, CFA. Columbia University Press. Columbia Business School Publishing. The authors astutely grab their title from a core principle of investing — diversification. Readers immediately think of the consequences of undiversified investment portfolios and quickly get […]
Monthly Archives: June 2024
[ad_1] The possibilities of zkSNARKs are impressive, you can verify the correctness of computations without having to execute them and you will not even learn what was executed – just that it was done correctly. Unfortunately, most explanations of zkSNARKs resort to hand-waving at some point and thus they remain […]
[ad_1] Private markets’ meteoric growth since the Global Financial Crisis has attracted the attention of regulators around the world, some of whom have reacted with urgency. Interestingly, the US courts recently vacated sweeping and controversial rules for private fund advisers that were adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). […]
[ad_1] Vitalik suggested last week that I share my basic research and design philosophy in a blog post, I agreed but complained that it was still changing. My friend Jon West told me that everyone would really appreciate it if I told everyone about my Casper research, I mostly agreed. […]
[ad_1] My Value Creation Journey: An Autobiography of My Work. Bartley J. Madden. 2023. Bartley J. Madden Foundation. My Value Creation Journey, by Bartley J. Madden, is a unique book that consists of a memoir, a primer on systems thinking and knowledge creation, and a call to reform the medical […]
[ad_1] Dear Ethereum explorers, Announcements are coming one after another as we get closer to Devcon. Today we’re thrilled to announce the launch of a quadratic funding round for SEA communities by clr.fund! We see the excitement and grassroots energy in Southeast Asia growing and have witnessed the passion from […]
[ad_1] As the most followed CFA charterholder on LinkedIn, Eric Sim, CFA, has expertly leveraged social media to connect with other professionals, build his personal brand, and advance his career. In the How to Master Social Media series, adapted from his recent book Small Actions: Leading Your Career to Big Success, Sim shares […]
[ad_1] This chapter describes the game theory and economic security modelling we were doing in the Fall of 2014. It recounts how the “bribing attacker model” led our research directly to a radical solution to the long range attack problem. Chapter 2: The Bribing Attacker, Economic Security, and the Long […]
[ad_1] The relationship between capitalization rates (cap rates) and interest rates is more nuanced than first meets the eye. Understanding their interplay is a cornerstone of real estate investment analysis. In this blog post, we dissect historical data, discuss current opportunities, and forecast real estate valuations for the second half […]
[ad_1] With the long awaited geth 1.5 (“let there bee light”) release, Swarm made it into the official go-ethereum release as an experimental feature. The current version of the code is POC 0.2 RC5 — “embrace your daemons” (roadmap), which is the refactored and cleaner version of the codebase that […]