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Effective degrees of freedom during the radiation era

This is a physics paper that grew out of my collaboration with Matts Roos in his publication of the 3rd edition of his text Introduction to Cosmology. This paper updates the curves of the effective degrees of freedom for the … Continue reading

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Compensating Fund Managers for Risk-Adjusted Performance

This paper (Journal of Alternative Investments, volume 2, number 3, winter 1999, by Thomas S. Coleman and Laurence B. Siegel) explores a risk-adjusted performance fee structure for hedge funds that addresses incentive compatibility and helps reduce asymmetry, while at the … Continue reading

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Convexity Adjustment for Constant Maturity Swaps

Both CMS (Constant Maturity Swap) and LIBOR-in-arrears swaps have payments that are linear with respect to an index while the offsetting hedges are convex. The linearity of the payment (relative to the convex hedges) imposes a cost that requires a … Continue reading

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