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Quantifiable Value of Information in Direct Marketing

We humans are all amateur psychologist and skilled mind readers because we are obsessed about strategic information. The most strategic information is “what do others think about me”. You can surely remember many critical situations in your own life in … Continue reading

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Simple Performance Fee Calculation for Investment Funds

I love fundamental theories in positive sciences like the Darwinian Evolution Theory, Game Theory, or Fourier’s Frequency Transformation. Once you have a solid understanding of such fundamental concepts, you can explain so many things, and solve so many different problems … Continue reading

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Fee and Commission Types in the Mutual Fund Business

After having worked more than two years in the Fund Services business as a senior consultant, I still confuse sometimes the meaning and scope of some terms used in the industry. The confusing factor is not necessarily the inherent complexity … Continue reading

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Predictive Modelling with Linear Regression – 2

In this article, I will show the estimation model which was introduced in the previous related article in action with matlab and Simulink; estimating the time record of an athlete running 100-meters against the wind, with a weight attached to … Continue reading

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