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Quant Insights Conference: Factor Investing and the Road to Diversified Serfdom
In May 2022, the Quant Insights Conference held by the CQF Institute featured a panel discussion entitled, “Factor Investing and the Road to Diversified Serfdom.”
Mon 15 Aug 2022
Calibration problems – An inverse problems view
In this article, Heniz W. Engl discusses the model parameters from market prices of liquid instruments.
Thu 21 Apr 2022
Software Frameworks in Quantitative Finance, Part I Fundamental Principles and Applications to Monte Carlo Methods
In this Wilmott article, Daniel J. Duffy and Joerg Kienitz discuss a number of ongoing efforts when developing customizable software systems and frameworks for problems in Quantitative Finance.
Tue 1 Feb 2022
Monte Carlo in Esperanto
This article shows how a simple parser environment in Excel/VBA could be used to perform single and multi-dimensional Monte Carlo.
Thu 4 Nov 2021
Finformatics: How to Measure Really Small Things
The orthodoxy has tendency to ignore drift which leaves opportunity for finformaticians the market over…
Wed 15 Sep 2021
Life Settlements and Viaticals
Life settlements and viaticals are contracts associated with death. Life settlements are a secondary market for the life insurance policies held by individuals. These individuals may, typically later in life, want to sell their policy. The policy is usually worth a lot more than its surrender value. Many of these life insurance policies are then usually packaged together and sold as one product. To the quant, the question is how to model and price, and hedge, individual policies and portfolios of policies.
Thu 5 Aug 2021
Poker as a Lottery
Doyle Brunson, two-time winner of the World Series of Poker main event, has likened a poker tournament to a lottery in which more skilled players (like himself) hold more tickets than less skilled players. This article works out the details of this analogy and provides some very general and very important results for anyone hoping to be a winning poker player.
Thu 8 Jul 2021
Scenarios IV: Planning for Disasters and then Dealing with them
In the aftermath of Katrina, Bill Ziemba discusses planning for the economic and financial effects of natural disasters.
Tue 22 Jun 2021
Monte Carlo Methods in Quantitative Finance Generic and Efficient MC Solver in C++
This paper describes how the authors have designed and implemented a software architecture in C++ to model one-factor and multifactor option pricing problems.
Tue 22 Jun 2021
Not-so-Complex Logarithms in the Heston Model
In Heston’s stochastic volatility framework [Heston 1993], semi-analytical formulæ for plain vanilla option prices can be derived. Unfortunately, these formulæ require the evaluation of logarithms with complex arguments during the involved inverse Fourier integration step. In this article, a new approach is proposed to solve this problem which enables the use of Heston’s analytics for practically all levels of parameters and even maturities of many decades.
Fri 5 Mar 2021
