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Mathew Cherian Research Associate/Analyst, Western Michigan University
 
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Financial engineering has provided innumerable lucrative opportunities for otherwise indigent mathematicians Nevertheless the turbulence in the bond markets in the last couple of months, at a time when the world economy’s prospects seemed set fair, have exposed a guilty secret of the financial engineering profession: its methods don’t work. First area of failure is liquidity. Theoretically, if financial engineers design ever fancier artificial securities and derivatives, but everybody uses the same mathematical models to value them, there is no reason why an active market should not operate in the securities, at whatever price the models direct. In practice this only works in calm markets. ...
By : Dheeraj Singh
Mathew Cherian  |  Commented  |  4 hours ago
Lately, I feel what has been achieved in FE is pure troll or emergent in nature. Unless the market participants behavior shifts to accomodate the FE models or the paradigm of the the whole financial market shifts these models will be troublesome....
Mathew Cherian  |  Commented  |  4 hours ago
Lately, I feel what has been achieved in FE is pure troll or emergent in nature. Unless the market participants behavior shifts to accomodate the FE models or the paradigm of the the whole financial market shifts these models will be troublesome....
Mathew Cherian  |  Commented  |  4 years ago
What Mr. Dheeraj says is correct but I believe that there where many pitfalls in the implementation of the Financial Engineering products rather than in their design. For example a stripped bond derived from collateralized debt which may be fo cc+...
 
 
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Financial engineering has provided innumerable lucrative opportunities for otherwise indigent mathematicians Nevertheless the turbulence in the bond markets in the last couple of months, at a time when the world economy’s prospects seemed set fair, have exposed a guilty secret of the financial engineering profession: its methods don’t work. First area of failure is liquidity. Theoretically, if financial engineers design ever fancier artificial securities and derivatives, but everybody uses the same mathematical models to value them, there is no reason why an active market should not operate in the securities, at whatever price the models direct. In practice this only works in calm markets. ...
By : Dheeraj Singh
Mathew Cherian  |  Commented  |  4 hours ago
Lately, I feel what has been achieved in FE is pure troll or emergent in nature. Unless the market participants behavior shifts to accomodate the FE models or the paradigm of the the whole financial market shifts these models will be troublesome....
Mathew Cherian  |  Commented  |  4 hours ago
Lately, I feel what has been achieved in FE is pure troll or emergent in nature. Unless the market participants behavior shifts to accomodate the FE models or the paradigm of the the whole financial market shifts these models will be troublesome....
Mathew Cherian  |  Commented  |  4 years ago
What Mr. Dheeraj says is correct but I believe that there where many pitfalls in the implementation of the Financial Engineering products rather than in their design. For example a stripped bond derived from collateralized debt which may be fo cc+...
 
 
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By : Janaki Ram
Mathew Cherian  |  Argues in support of  "Yes"  |  4 hours ago
When one look into education as a facilitator one need to look at its purpose in the whole gamut of nations existence. What connotation it bears with the political ideology of a nation and how they correlate. Education can be nothing else other...
Mathew Cherian  |  Argues in support of  |  4 hours ago
When one look into education as a facilitator one need to look at its purpose in the whole gamut of nations existence. What connotation it bears with the political ideology of a nation and how they correlate. Education can be nothing else other than...
Janaki Ram  |  Argues in support of  "No"  |  2 years ago
No, its not happening....India and China graduate three to six times more engineers than does the United States, the quality of these engineers is, however, so poor that most are not fit to join the workforce. Indian industry has to spend large...
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By : Janaki Ram
Mathew Cherian  |  Argues in support of  "Yes"  |  4 hours ago
When one look into education as a facilitator one need to look at its purpose in the whole gamut of nations existence. What connotation it bears with the political ideology of a nation and how they correlate. Education can be nothing else other...
Mathew Cherian  |  Argues in support of  |  4 hours ago
When one look into education as a facilitator one need to look at its purpose in the whole gamut of nations existence. What connotation it bears with the political ideology of a nation and how they correlate. Education can be nothing else other than...
Janaki Ram  |  Argues in support of  "No"  |  2 years ago
No, its not happening....India and China graduate three to six times more engineers than does the United States, the quality of these engineers is, however, so poor that most are not fit to join the workforce. Indian industry has to spend large...
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BY CREATING A NEW SYSTEM 
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 BY BEING IN THE SYSTEM TO CHANGE THE SYSTEM
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Mathew Cherian  |  Argues in support of  "BY CREATING A NEW SYSTEM"  |  1 month ago
One example I might suggest about the corruption agitation going on here among people. It again has our metaphysical ideas of dharma and karma intruding in our politics. Whan a manufacturer tries to initiate an investment or project a product...
Mathew Cherian  |  Argues in support of  |  1 month ago
Why youth cannot change the political scenario of a nation is because, it requires deep understanding of how humans cluster together and exists to prolong their life. So it is a cross functional knowledge that is required from anthropology to...
George Varghese  |  Argues in support of  "BY BEING IN THE SYSTEM TO CHANGE THE SYSTEM"  |  2 years ago
Creating a total new system will  be a very risky task. It should be always better to be by being in the system change the system 
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By : sumita
Mathew Cherian  |  Argues in support of  "BY CREATING A NEW SYSTEM"  |  1 month ago
One example I might suggest about the corruption agitation going on here among people. It again has our metaphysical ideas of dharma and karma intruding in our politics. Whan a manufacturer tries to initiate an investment or project a product...
Mathew Cherian  |  Argues in support of  |  1 month ago
Why youth cannot change the political scenario of a nation is because, it requires deep understanding of how humans cluster together and exists to prolong their life. So it is a cross functional knowledge that is required from anthropology to...
George Varghese  |  Argues in support of  "BY BEING IN THE SYSTEM TO CHANGE THE SYSTEM"  |  2 years ago
Creating a total new system will  be a very risky task. It should be always better to be by being in the system change the system 
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1 Inflation happening everywhere is due to the channe in structre of the economies.......
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Mathew Cherian  |  Added idea  "Inflation happening everywhere is due to the channe in structre of the economies......."  |  1 month ago
Inflation is not only an Indian phenomenon it is everywhere !!! If one argue inflation is part of development, then one need to answer why is it so also in developed nations. In US when I was a student a can of Tuna used to cost $1.50 and now the...
 
 
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1 Increasingly there is an apparent contradiction in the courts regarding the application of judgments.
2 The entire legal system is to be blamed for this !
By : Vinoy Scaria James
Shameena W.  |  Supported idea  "The entire legal system is to be blamed for this !"  |  8 hours ago
Jayagoal, sorry I got to join issue on topic 'innocent under proven guilty'. Your take suggests that the onus of proving innocence ; lies with the charged. It would be catastrophic in such a eventuality. Imagine you were accused by somebody of...
Mathew Cherian  |  Supported idea  |  1 month ago
A nations political structure is divided into two factors, the Judiciary and the executive. Whenever the executive fail the judiciary is supposed to take over and correct the mistake. Indian system is not far different in implementation but cases...
Mathew Cherian  |  Supported idea  "Increasingly there is an apparent contradiction in the courts regarding the application of judgments. "  |  2 months ago
When one look at the legal system even Indian, it has a history. It is the by product of the Roman laws which was replicated in the British common laws and other nations followed it up mimicking those laws. One cannot create laws for each nation...
 
 
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1 Increasingly there is an apparent contradiction in the courts regarding the application of judgments.
2 The entire legal system is to be blamed for this !
By : Vinoy Scaria James
Shameena W.  |  Supported idea  "The entire legal system is to be blamed for this !"  |  8 hours ago
Jayagoal, sorry I got to join issue on topic 'innocent under proven guilty'. Your take suggests that the onus of proving innocence ; lies with the charged. It would be catastrophic in such a eventuality. Imagine you were accused by somebody of...
Mathew Cherian  |  Supported idea  |  1 month ago
A nations political structure is divided into two factors, the Judiciary and the executive. Whenever the executive fail the judiciary is supposed to take over and correct the mistake. Indian system is not far different in implementation but cases...
Mathew Cherian  |  Supported idea  "Increasingly there is an apparent contradiction in the courts regarding the application of judgments. "  |  2 months ago
When one look at the legal system even Indian, it has a history. It is the by product of the Roman laws which was replicated in the British common laws and other nations followed it up mimicking those laws. One cannot create laws for each nation...
 
 
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STORY WHICH MAKES US TO THINK Once upon a time, there was an island where all the feelings lived: Happiness , Sadness , Knowledge , and all of the others , including Love . One day it was announced to the feelings that the island would sink, so all constructed boats and left. Except for Love. Love was the only one who stayed. Love wanted to hold out until the last possible moment. When the island had almost sunk, Love decided to ask for help. Richness was passing by Love in a grand boat. Love said, “ Richness , can you take me with you?” Richness answered, “No, I can’t. There is a lot of gold and silver in my boat. There is no place here for you.” Love decided to ask Vanity who was also pas...
By : Suresh Prasad Gupta
Mathew Cherian  |  Commented  |  1 month ago
Love is a metaphysical phenomenon and Time is a scientific phenomenon, so what it says probably is only science can save humanity.
Amanda Yi  |  Commented  |  1 month ago
There is something else when i first read this story. That is----- "Time?" asked Love. "But why did Time help me?" Knowledge smiled with deep wisdom and answered, "Because only Time is capable of understanding how valuable Love is."
 
 
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