The Commonsense Capitalism of Chris James

Engine No. 1’s victory in a boardroom battle with ExxonMobil is taking ESG investing to the next level.

Why payment apps that thrive in India struggle to succeed in Mexico

One fintech veteran from India found out the hard way why “Mexicans love cash.”

The $2 Billion Mall Rats

The inside story of a black sheep hedge fund, a massive bet that shopping malls would crash, and how they proved Wall Street wrong.

How Intel Financialized and Lost Leadership in Semiconductor Fabrication |

Intel is the poster child of how stock buybacks come at the cost of technological innovation.

Let’s Build a Chip – With Math

Let’s Build a Chip – We lay out the costs of building a chip – with spreadsheets!

Quantra — a Python coding platform to learn quantitative finance

To be honest, the title of the article does quite a good job in describing what Quantra actually is. It’s a platform that helps potential students with their journey of learning about quantitative…

What is a store worth?

Retailers who want to measure the full value of their physical stores need to consider factors in addition to in-store sales.

Property Taxes by State in 2024

Greensill Capital: The Collapse of a Company Built on Debt

Greensill Capital promised a win-win for buyers and sellers, until it all fell apart, igniting concerns about opaque accounting practices.

Mark Carney: ‘I didn’t want the Bank of England job. But I was asked to fix something’

He earned a fortune at Goldman Sachs, but now the banker wants the financial sector to reassess its values and tackle the climate emergency

Respect the Base Rate – Of Dollars And Data

On making optimal decisions, when to expect the average outcome in life, and when not to.

How the Most Hyped U.S. Oil Merger in a Decade Went Bust

As CEO of Occidental Petroleum, Vicki Hollub made the biggest deal the oil business had seen in years. Will it also go down as the biggest failure?

How Do I Find a Stock's Number of Shorted Shares?

Most websites with a stock quotes service offer free short interest data. Learn more about what shorting information means and how to find it.

What I Believe Most · Collaborative Fund

Ten things that guide almost everything I think about in business and investing…

7 Crowdfunding Platforms You Can Use To Boost Your Ideas

Advice, insight, profiles and guides for established and aspiring entrepreneurs worldwide. Home of Entrepreneur magazine.

WTF is a SPAC?

In a SPAC IPO, a shell company goes public with a pledge to investors that it will eventually become a traditional company via acquisition.

Yield Curve

The Games People Play With Cash Flow - Commonplace - The Commoncog Blog

One way that first principles thinking fails is when you build your analysis up from a deficient set of base principles. Everything is correct and true, but you still end up mistaken. Here's how that looks like in practice.

Debt: the First 5000 Years

I recently read Debt: the First 5000 Years by David Graeber, and it has stuck on my mind for a while. It’s one of those “Everybody is wrong about X, here is what you’ve missed in plain sight” -type…

Insurance Risk Pricing — Tweedie Approach - Towards Data Science

An illustrative guide to estimate the pure premium using Tweedie models in GLMs and Machine Learning

Full Page Reload

Or, how we learned to stop worrying and embrace the abstraction

Azure GPUs with Riskfuel’s technology offer 20 million times faster valuation of derivatives | Microsoft Azure Blog

We recently collaborated with Riskfuel, a startup developing fast derivatives models based on AI, to measure the performance gained by running a Riskfuel-accelerated model on the Azure ND40rs_v2 Virtual Machine instance powered by NVIDIA GPUs against traditional CPU-driven…

Is Private Equity Having Its Minsky Moment?

Hi, Welcome to BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here. Or just read on…

Black–Scholes model - Wikipedia

The Black–Scholes /ˌblæk ˈʃoʊlz/[1] or Black–Scholes–Merton model is a mathematical model for the dynamics of a financial market containing derivative investment instruments. From the parabolic partial differential equation in the model, known as the Black–Scholes…

Getting to the root of the revenue multiple | TechCrunch

Valuation concerns are top of mind for many investors. For those in tech investing, this concern is perhaps most acute, given the generally high multiples assigned to the sector. There are good articles addressing how revenue multiples have moved over time or why this…

Show HN: Excel Sensitivity Analysis Tool

Build models better. Causal replaces spreadsheets with collaborative modeling in the browser.

How Renaissance’s Medallion Fund Became Finance’s Blackest Box

The Medallion Fund, an employees-only offering for the quants at Renaissance Technologies, is the blackest box in all of finance.

Collection of Jupyter notebooks for quantitative finance

Collection of notebooks about quantitative finance, with interactive python code. - cantaro86/Financial-Models-Numerical-Methods

How VCs Make Money

Digging into "Two and Twenty" & VC compensation

Bank of the Underworld - The Atlantic

Liberty Reserve was like PayPal for the unbanked. Was it also a global money-laundering operation?

I Worked at Capital One for Five Years. This Is How We Justified Piling Debt on Poor Customers.

The subprime lending giant is a textbook case in creating a corporate culture of denial.

How to avoid losses and prune projects proactively

It’s common for companies to hang on for too long to projects or parts of the business that are underperforming. Two effective techniques can help executives make project investment decisions on when to hold on to an asset and when to let it go.

The Black-Scholes formula, explained

505 votes, 61 comments. 2M subscribers in the finance community. Welcome to r/Finance! No Personal Finance, Homework, Personal blogs, or…

The real Goldfinger: the London banker who broke the world

The true story of how the City of London invented offshore banking – and set the rich free

How America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Engineering Mystery (Published 2019)

When a secretive private equity firm bought Remington, sales were strong and the future bright. A decade later, the company couldn’t escape its debts.

The Periodic Table of Commodity Returns

The Triple Jeopardy of a Chinese Math Prodigy

A secretive hedge fund used the British court system to punish an IP thief‚ even though he was already in jail.

Sector Heatmaps

Stock market rotation has been a pretty big theme this year but you wouldn't necessarily know it from our sector performance heatmap.

Lessons from Robert Smith of Vista Equity Partners

Robert Smith is the Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Vista Equity Partners. A March 2018 Forbes profile described Vista’s performance: “Since the firm’s inception in 2000, Vi…

Business and Investing Lessons from Caddyshack

There are certainly some people who don’t know that Caddyshack is a 1980 comedy movie directed by Harold Ramis and written by Brian Doyle-Murray, Douglas Kenney and the director Ramis.…

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Justifying Investments with the Capital Budgeting Process

The capital budgeting process involves applying the time value of money concepts to business investment decision making. It is critical towards ensuring that capital is invested into the right projects.

The many twists and turns of hardware

I don’t think anyone would disagree that building a successful hardware business has quite literally many more moving parts than software.

Inside the 20-year decline of Toys R Us

Cost cuts, stressed employees, intercompany rivalries, dirty floors, dusty rafters, glitchy IT, fudged metrics: The people who ran the failed toy retailer's stores know what went wrong.

Python For Finance: Algorithmic Trading

Originally published at https://www.datacamp.com/community/tutorials/finance-python-trading

Revealed: The Secrets Of One Of The World's Dirtiest Banks And Its Powerful

Blatant forgery. Snarling guard dogs. Shredded evidence. An incendiary cache of leaked documents reveals the farcical scramble inside one of the world’s dirtiest banks to conceal incriminating information from US government investigators – while some of the most prestigious…

It’s Good to Be the King

The ins and outs of how the mega-rich wall themselves off from government’s prying eyes