Circles of light One sweltering summer we invited our partners in Thailand for a round of meetings in Karachi. The year was 2006 and the city was mostly dug up as newly found money for development made way for flyovers, underpasses, road extensions and traffic
Market Analysis Crude Oil Crude oil resumed the bullish tone on Monday and remained strong till Wednesday and then corrected a bit, and overall prices remained stable, however, long term outlook still is very fragile. Oil price drivers this week have been EIA inventory number,
Market Analysis Crude Oil Crude oil resumed the bullish tone on Monday and remained bullish through out the week. However market participants still concerned about the fragility of the upward price movement. This week bullish trend is attributed to US inventory number, weaker USD, global
Crude Oil price outlook 2020-2030. If you are interested in crude oil as an investor, an analyst or a consumer there is no shortage of conflicting opinions out there. For industry outsiders it is even worse – crude oil price outlook is a puzzle with
Of sunshine, sparks and dreams. It was a small room that could fit four rows of chairs length wise, three across. A makeshift stage had been set in the front by pushing the furniture aside. A class room, you thought automatically. Whiteboard, projector, sitting tables.
AWS: On Demand vs Reserved EC2 instances For every start up there comes a stage when you need to rethink hosting. Sometimes the decision is driven by growth, sometimes by downtime but quite often the consideration is ongoing cost. When we started using AWS for
Three lessons that will make you rethink Innovation for startups How should startups and founders think about innovation? Is there a framework or a checklist that we could follow? Is innovation within reach of young teams? Is there a path that leads to it? Here
Market Analysis Crude Oil Crude oil started strong at the start of the week due to weaker USD and kept on moving north till Thursday on EIA weekly report, which depicted unexpected inventory draw down, specially a sharp draw down of gasoline inventory. However crude
Portfolio Alpha stability and portfolio optimization models Stability and robustness of portfolio Alphas – the excess return metric – and its implication for portfolio allocation and optimization models – a short thesis on portfolio alpha stability. How stable is your portfolio alpha – introducing alpha
TARF PSR PFE Model in Excel – Part II This is the second in the series on the calculation of Pre-settlement Risk (PSR) & Potential Future Exposure (PFE) for FX derivatives. We extend the model we used to calculate the PSR & PFE risk measures