Thursday, February 26, 2009

The formula that killed Wall Street !!

Here's the link to a recent article in Wired online, which talks about a formula which had been devised by David Li, a quantitative analyst and qualified actuary, for correlating associations between multiple securities. Lapped up by quant-hungry bankers and analysts for pricing CDOs and mortgage market instruments, the limitations of correlation as a number were overlooked. Read on about the implications of the formula....

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