Alexandre Antonov, Alexander Lipton and Marcos Lopez de Prado compare and contrast two portfolio allocation methods: the classical Markowitz approach and the hierarchical risk parity (HRP) approach.
What do housing price changes and heat hold in common? Both tend to spread across space and time in a similar manner, according to new research from Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, head of $10 billion ...
A senior Bank of England policymaker has identified a cyber attack with system-wide consequences as a category of risk that “keeps me up at night”. Responding to a question at an event on geopolitical ...
Regions Bank boosted its held-to-maturity (HTM) securities portfolio to $4.4 billion, marking a 58.8% rise from the previous quarter and reaching its highest level in at least a decade. The strategic ...
In an influential 2011 paper, Christoph Burgard and Mats Kjaer showed how a bank can hedge its funding risk by dynamically shorting its own bonds. As this is technically unfeasible, most banks ...
Societe Generale has been synonymous with equity derivatives for more than three decades, building a global markets franchise around its long-standing exotics and structuring prowess.