Portfolio Management Processes: rebalancing index aware funds

When managing an index aware fund* one intellectual challenge is to know how often to rebalance the fund to the index and how to do this.

While working with a greenfield Fixed Income asset management client we established a multi-stage protocol for this process:

Shakti - replacement for kdb+ ? And MQTT

The main (very large) brain behind kdb+, Arthur Whitney, has been working on a new project since January 2019. The firm is called Shakti which is:

"Shakti is designed to manage streaming, in-memory and historical data in any format. Structured data, such as relational or time-series data can co-exist alongside, semi-structured and unstructured data creating a single platform for storage and analytics. Our technology takes advantage of the latest in hardware advancements from multi-core architectures, CPU cache, RAM, SSD and Intel® Optane™ technology all the way to cloud storage.

Policy frameworks for pandemics - part 5 - restarting the economy...

Once the virus is contained, how do we restart the economy?

Policy frameworks for pandemics - part 4 - incidence of costs versus incidence of benefits...

Every day we hear the news about the number of cases of people dying from Coronavirus.  These numbers are shocking and every death is a tragedy.  But not all deaths are equal. 

FIX Training Paris 2020

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FIX Training Johannesburg 2020

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FIX Training Cape Town 2020

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FIX Training Brussels 2020

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FIX Training Amsterdam 2020

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FIX Training Frankfurt 2020

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FIX Training Sydney 2020

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FIX Training Singapore 2020

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FIX Training Melbourne 2020

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FIX Training London 2020

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G-Technology, Apple Mac, Bootcamp, Windows and Thunderbolt 3 - a word of caution

Working within the broadly defined field of "Consulting" one gathers a great deal of information, both public and private.  All needs to be safely stored and accessible readily.  I have always adhered to the maxim: "If your data is not in three places, it's nowhere."

tl;dr version - avoid G-Technology RAID devices if you use Windows on Bootcamp.  Full reasons below...