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Quantifying Structural Risk in 'Zombified' Markets | Hari Krishnan & Ash Bennington

Hidden Forces

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Portfolio Theory - What Is the Standard Model Used in Finance to Day?

Portfolio theory was founded on the idea that if you can find two assets that deliver decent returns, or even non zero returns, but don't move together, that's a nice portfolio to have. The efficient markets hypothesis type stuff suggests that most assets have fairly normal distributions. They evolve pretty randomly. And if you can manage the coverian structure, if you can build portfolios that are more efficient then other explains cor variances.

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