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What is the Efficient Market Hypothesis?
Risk & Quantitative Finance

What is the Efficient Market Hypothesis?

The efficient market hypothesis (EMH), alternatively known as the efficient market theory, is a hypothesis that states that share prices reflect all information and consistent alpha generation is impossible.

Learnsignal
15 May 2023
10 min read
Skewness: Deciphering the Symmetry of Distributions
Accounting & Finance Concepts

Skewness: Deciphering the Symmetry of Distributions

Skewness, a measure of a distribution’s symmetry, is the standardised third moment by dividing it by the standard deviation cubed.

Learnsignal
11 Oct 2022
3 min read
Understanding Mortgage-Backed Securities
Risk & Quantitative Finance

Understanding Mortgage-Backed Securities

MBS is a specialised product of Asset-Backed Securities. MBS works through different pooling mortgages and selling them in a packaged form.

Learnsignal
05 Oct 2022
4 min read

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Understanding the Total Sum of Squares in Finance
Risk & Quantitative Finance

Understanding the Total Sum of Squares in Finance

The coefficient of determination measures how well a regression line explains the relationship between a dependent variables.

Learnsignal
02 Oct 2022
4 min read
Unraveling the Total Return Swap in Financial Markets
Risk & Quantitative Finance

Unraveling the Total Return Swap in Financial Markets

Total Rate of Return Swaps exchange a reference asset’s total return for a floating rate such as LIBOR plus a specified spread.

Learnsignal
28 Sept 2022
4 min read
Deciphering the F-distribution in Financial Analysis
Risk & Quantitative Finance

Deciphering the F-distribution in Financial Analysis

F-distributions arise frequently as null distributions of test statistics, most notably in the analysis of variance.

Learnsignal
27 Sept 2022
3 min read

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