Thanks, David -- that's very helpful.   BTW, as a follow-up for you or anybody with access to a Bloomberg terminal (or similar).  If the vendor provides a set of spot rates (semi-annual compounding) computed from the  Daily Treasury Par Yield Curve Rates  at any Date, I would much appreciate a scree...

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As a fixed income novice, I am trying to wrap my head around the conversion of US Treasury par yield rates to spot rates (zero-coupon rates) using exact US market conventions.  Take the par yield curve here:  Resource Center | U.S. Department of the Treasury If you want to associate a maturity date ...

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1. Why are the most successful (publicly offered) funds (in terms of long-term performance) low cost, cap-weighted index funds and *not* long-short funds? 2. Let's say "the bottom quartile will basically all go to zero". I suspect that will be due to failed clinical trials. If you could pr...

Reports I've seen all say there were balloons involved, maybe metallic balloons. Fire enough bullets and the thing will start to descend, and eventually be low enough to grab it. Tom Cruise could do it. 

Instead of shooting down these "objects" ...
Mid-air retrieval

RIP -- one Chinese balloon

No, but if the manager is SEC-regulated this guide may be of interest. 
(This guide is apparently the product of a law firm probably looking to earn whistleblower fees, so keep that in mind).

What is your evidence besides the disparate performance of various funds? 

One of my current favs ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PSOgmm ... =SoulOnTop

Skip ahead to 1:40. Unless you're a fan of Don Cornelius.

Nice one!
A classic in the same genre ...
         
   

You might try Gatheral's simple lognormal model

In the lognormal model, given volatility and variance swap prices, the entire distribution is specified and we may price any claim on quadratic variation!

Nice poster. Found a nice shot of a nearby (Utrecht) library:   

Probably can drop the V(x) term.