by Jason Apollo Voss | 16 07 2012 | Best of the Blog, Blog
We have myopically come to believe that “survival of the fittest” is synonymous with competition and is the highest expression of our nature. Yet survival of the fittest also includes those creatures, including humans, who successfully and continuously...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 12 07 2012 | Blog
The scandal surrounding LIBOR, the London Interbank Offered Rate, continues to sweep through global finance — so much information, so little time for investment professionals to assess the facts. Lost in the scandal discussion the last several years are the invisible...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 11 07 2012 | News & Events
Hi! Many of you over the years have asked me to teach the material in my award winning book The Intuitive Investor: A Radical Guide for Manifesting Wealth. I am therefore very pleased to announce my forthcoming course Intuitive Investor Simple Basics and Power...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 19 06 2012 | Blog
MODELERS OF ALL MARKETS, UNITE! You have nothing to lose but your illusions. –Dr. Emanuel Derman Nobody personifies a “quant” like Emanuel Derman. First, there is his educational pedigree: After earning a PhD in theoretical particle physics from Columbia...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 11 06 2012 | Blog
Fixed-income markets are awash in news of the increasing number of sovereign debt issues coming to market with negative nominal yields. The question is how low can yields go? In order to help answer the question we created a spreadsheet that helps to demonstrate and...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 30 05 2012 | Blog
In part one of “Holes in Some of Finance’s Critical Assumptions,” Kevin Harney of the hedge fund Massif Partners discussed some of the market distortions arising from critical finance assumptions like Brownian motion and normal distributions used in options pricing....
