Elle, a 7-year old girl, made her hands dirty in stock picking. This time she decided to buy GoPro stock. I was about to make use of my veto right but finally found her decision not bad at all.
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Quirin Honorarberatung: gut gedacht aber schlecht gemacht
Etablierung der unabhängigen (und deswegen entgeltlichen) Finanzberatung, sowie die transparente und nachvollziehbare Vermögensverwaltung wäre ein großer Vorschritt für die Deutsche Finanzindustrie. Das strebt anscheinend die Quirin Bank. Doch gibt es einige wesentlichen Unterschiede zwischen der Werbung, dem roten Buch von Quirin und der Tatsache. Continue reading "Quirin Honorarberatung: gut gedacht aber schlecht gemacht"
Telefonica (ES0178430E18) – A Trading Chance From Spain
Telefonica a Spanish telecommunication company, one of the largest in the world. It is also very active in Germany (with o2 brand). Telefonica's stock is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 and currently looks promising both from technical and fundamental points of view. Telefonica always was a good dividend payer, however, there is a pitfall with the Spanish tax at source (Quellensteuer). 
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QuantLibXL – A Curvy Way to fit a Yield Curve
QuantLib is a magnificent library for quantitative finance. But it is also like a gun, heavy enough to shoot your own foot. You might expect that QuantLibXL (a plug-in that provides a subset of QuantLib functionality in Excel) makes your life easier. Unfortunately, it hardly does, as we show in this case study. For an easy and straight way you should better have a look at Deriscope. Continue reading "QuantLibXL – A Curvy Way to fit a Yield Curve"
Wikifolio ProReturn is 45% down – Greedy German pays the Price (over and over) again
ProReturn, one of the most popular wikifolios, lost about 45% of its value during recent market flash crash. Several millions Euro disappeared within two days. But it seems that greedy German retail investors will never learn. Moreover, they don't want and are hardly able to learn, although the German school education system is free of charge an still much better than that in US and UK. Well, jedem das Seine!
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JuniorDepot3a – explaining correlation and diversification to a 7 year old girl
Market fall and so does Elle's portfolio. However, we still perform better than market due to diversification. So we use the opportunity to explain a 7-year old girl the idea of correlation. Continue reading "JuniorDepot3a – explaining correlation and diversification to a 7 year old girl"
JuniorDepot 3 – Buying DAX Dividend-Cows
Elle, a 7 years old girl learning to manage her wealth on her own, made her second investment. We used recent market correction to buy an ETF on DivDAX, which consists of the 15 DAX stocks with the highest dividend yield (and mostly low p/e). Continue reading "JuniorDepot 3 – Buying DAX Dividend-Cows"
Beyond Black Scholes: European Options without Dividends
Options are the simplest non-trivial financial derivatives around. They are part of the curriculum of every university course on Finance for a good reason: They are everywhere! They are traded on regulated exchanges around the world, change hands over the counter between … consenting adults, enhance or "infect" all sorts of contracts as "embedded options", constitute the main ingredient of insurance policies. In their pure form, their annual volume on U.S. Equity Option exchanges alone exceeds 4 billion contracts!
This is the first of a series of articles that will show you how to compute the fair value of options within Excel without using expensive third party software. Continue reading "Beyond Black Scholes: European Options without Dividends"
PRIIPs – Finanzaufsichtsbehörden wollten “wie besser” und haben wie immer gemacht
Das Jahr 2018 ist im Sinne der Finanzregulierung durch MiFID II und PRIIPs bekannt geworden. Weil MiFID II "lediglich" ein großer Aufwand für Finanzinstitute war, hat PRIIPs manche Privatanleger direkt beeinträchtigt. Victor Chernomyrdin, der erste Premierminister der Russischen Föderation, ist für seine Aussagen bekannt: u.a. man wollte "wie besser" und machte wie immer. Leider trifft es die Finanzaufsicht (zu) häufig zu. Continue reading "PRIIPs – Finanzaufsichtsbehörden wollten “wie besser” und haben wie immer gemacht"
Market Data Quality – Beware the Splits and Dividends
Recently we made an ex-post analysis of our ETF screening efficiency and detected the price data inconsistency for 4 of 21 ETFs in question. Having a closer look at these ETFs, we explain the causes of inconsistency and emphasize that your trading strategy is only as good as your data (quality controls) are! Continue reading "Market Data Quality – Beware the Splits and Dividends"