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AI Robotics Company Electric Sheep Acquires Two More Landscaping Businesses and Brings Tech-Enabled Private Equity Model to Outdoor Services Industry

Benzinga

As this model scales, ESR is poised to build. Full story available on Benzinga.com

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What is Modern Portfolio Theory and Portfolio Risk?

Andrew Stolz

The portfolio return variance is calculated by multiplying the squared weight of each asset by its variance and adding two times the weight of each asset multiplied by the covariance of the asset pair. The covariance of the assets is sqrt(0.3)*sqrt(0.2) The portfolio standard deviation is the square root of the portfolio variance.

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Does ESG Information Affect Individual Investors’ Portfolio Choices?

Reynolds Holding

We then analyze whether participants’ personal characteristics drive their portfolio reallocation decisions in response to ESG information and use demographics, financial literacy and experience, personality traits, and ESG awareness as potential covariates.

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The School Bell Rings: Time for Class!

Musings on Markets

Again, I have a short course that I put together that covers the statistical concepts needed in finance, from summary statistics (averages, medians) to measures of relationships (correlations, covariances) to predictive and analytics tools (regressions, simulations): If you are a statistics maven, you will undoubtedly find my discussion of statistical (..)

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A Return to Teaching: The Spring 2023 Edition

Musings on Markets

In this class, I start by looking at data collection and data descriptives , before moving on to distributions and data relationships (correlations, covariances and regressions) and closing with probabilities and probabilistic tools.