The newspaper industry, along with any field tied to advertising, faces a constant dilemma: whether to prioritize strict ethical journalism principles and quality content or to cater to advertisers by producing more sensational material. This balancing act between credibility and financial sustainability is an ongoing challenge. It’s intriguing to assess where today’s newspapers fall on…

With the debate of value vs growth investing in focus for some time, we thought to look at the same problem through the lens of quantifiable data. An approach lent to the investing community by Stephen A. Ross in 1976 through Arbitrage Pricing Theory, made a case for explaining the stock returns through multiple factors. Now, factors are…

This post was first published on medium.com There has been a lot of action in the market lately given the type of information that has been pouring in. While the world was still sinking in the news of Aramco being hit by drowns of Yemen Rebels and most of net oil importer nations looking at…

Estimating betas by regressing stock returns (Rj) against market returns (Rm) and understanding of idiosyncratic risk. The code can be found here.

Exploration of sharpe ratio, information ratio, identification of closet index funds advertising itself as actively managed and visualization of active return in terms of asset allocation return, security selection return and security-asset selection allocation interaction return. The code can be found here.

Investment management in India has long escaped the wave of digital disruption. Investment management does have its own pain points. On one hand, with 88% of all equity oriented mutual fund schemes being distributor driven(AMFI), poses a serious incentive problem and on another hand, the probability of managed fund to beat its benchmark being less…

Smart weight allocation in portfolio through the means of Sharpe Ratio and Minimum Volatility optimization. Investment universe explored in this exercise consists of following instruments: JUNIORBEES, NIFTYBEES, GOLDBEES and RRSLGETF. The code can be found here.

We often get into the state of blaming advanced data science models not working up to the mark without understanding the nuances of its working which surely requires a decent understanding of the mathematics behind these models. Let’s take an example of the following questions: – Should I build a separate model for each city,…

I have often seen many people in my surroundings getting into the loaded question fallacies. It is a question that has an inherent assumption about the situation and the responder can’t answer it without appearing guilty. These questions often derail the otherwise meaningful conversation because of their inflammatory nature, which might not be desirable for…

This one is also from an old repository dating back to when Quora was at its prime. Passed level 1 June’16 To begin with, pay the level 1 fees as soon as possible. There are two benefits associated with this: Now comes the preparation part. There are multiple routes that a person can follow but…