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Moral Hazard and Operations of Shell Companies

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In 2012, Jason Sharman presented a paper on "Financial Secrecy, society and vested interest" in Norway. The paper discussed whether the FATF laws to counter the anonymity issue of the shell companies effective? 

Fundamentals of Quantitative Modelling

This Wharton's course teaches about the fundamentals of quantitative modelling. It is beneficial because these fundamental blocks could be added to form a more complex model at a later stage to solve various business issues.

Securing Investment returns in the long-run

Academicians from the University of Geneva and professionals from UBS discuss the famous dichotomy between active and passive investing, how to measure and analyze investment performance and the future trends in the investment management industry.

Portfolio and Risk Management

Academicians from the University of Geneva and professionals from UBS aids us to gain an understanding of the theory underlying optimal portfolio construction, the different ways portfolios are actually built in practice and how to measure and manage the risk of portfolios.

Financial derivatives: Forwards and Futures

A derivative instrument is a contract which specifies the conditions under which a transaction will take place in the future. The price of the derivative depends on the price of another asset called as the underlying asset.

Financial derivatives: Options

These financial instruments are not just interesting for traders and to deepen pockets but even from economics and research point of view, these instruments are fascinating.

Understanding Financials of a firm

 As we know, the share price of a firm, at least theoretically, are the discounted values of expected future cash flows. This method to value stock price, as discussed in the article, understanding financial markets, is called the discounted cash flow method.