<t>Zionism as a Racist IdeologyReviving an Old Theme to Prevent Palestinian EthnicideBy KATHLEEN and BILL CHRISTISONDuring a presentation on the Palestinian-Israeli situation in 2001, an American-Israeli acquaintance of ours began with a typical attack on the Palestinians. Taking the overused line t...

I was wondering if anyone has read the following:Market Models: A Guide to Financial Data Analysis, by Carol AlexanderOn Amazon it has a lot of good reviews, but I was hoping to get some feed back from wilmotters as I trust the feed back more from this forumnMany Thanks

<t>I think Matlab is more widely uised then s-plus. It should be noted that I use it primarily as an explorative tool to understand the problem at hand and qickly generate some numbers to get a feel for what I should be expecting. However production quality analytics C++ is the primary tool of imple...

DB has currently the biggest credit derivatives business and has probably one of the best credit correlation trading desks (CSFB don't come close). the rates in DB front office trading desk are good as its one fof the most profitable divisions in the bank

<t>I am currently looking at various elliptical Copula models and was wondering if anyone knows what the general practices are to calculate the correlation matrix within the copula joint distribution (i.e. input to the cholesky decompositon within the copula algorithm) e.g. say we have two reference...

<t>I believe all three have good reputations - with regrads to birkbeck I am nearing the end of the course and my thoughts are that the course contents is very good. I guess when I was deciding on the course i took the following into factors into consideration:Cost - birkbeck i belive is the cheapes...

<t>Hi ArbitrayTo answer your questions:You have two 3hr lectures (6pm-9pm per week) + on average another 3hr session per week for tutorials. Note the tutorials only happen when required and are not a regular fixture. Officially the course starts in october but there is a pre maths/stats and finance ...

<t>There are both part time and full time peole on the course (the full timers tend to be a mix of PhD students and full time MSc's). The following points hopefully answer some of the questions:The course is very new and hence the fee's are so low (approx 10K). Howver the impression I get get is tha...

<r>I am nearing the end of my first year at Birkbeck (part time) whilst wrking full time for Deutsche Bank. In general I have found the course to be very good.Please note that it is assumed you ahve a strong mathematical background you will have to pass a test to get on to the course - In September ...