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		<title>Your Personal Discount Rate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scientist Jeff Schweitzer has an interesting and unique, but disturbing (and very real) application of the time value of money concept. He says environments in developing countries are being destroyed because of the infinite discount rates of their starving populations. They prefer the immediate provision of (say) fish from the sea, rather than the distant [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.arnavsheth.net/2010/07/28/your-personal-discount-rate/</link>
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		<title>Good New-Bad News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[James Surowiecki (over at the New Yorker), wrote about financial illiteracy in the issue from a couple of weeks ago. The bad news is that we Americans are clueless about finance, and particularly, our personal finances: The depth of our financial ignorance is startling. In recent years, Annamaria Lusardi, an economist at Dartmouth and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.arnavsheth.net/2010/07/26/good-new-bad-news/</link>
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		<title>Welcome Managerial Finance Students!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was nice meeting you all last week. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. A couple of things: I mentioned last week, that I was on the fence about you using Excel for all your calculations. Well, I have hopped over the fence and decided that you may use Excel for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.arnavsheth.net/2010/07/21/welcome-managerial-finance-students/</link>
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		<title>FAIM 608: Spreadsheets Uploaded</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve uploaded some spreadsheets to help you with: Understanding conversion factors. Convexity adjustments. Solving Problem 3.23. Understanding the relationship between futures and expected spot using CAPM (from Chapter 5). See the sidebar to the right (Lectures 6, 7 and 8). I&#8217;ll be talking about #s 1, 2 and 3 in class today. See you then. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.arnavsheth.net/2010/06/03/faim-608-spreadsheets-uploaded/</link>
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		<title>FAIM 608: Hunt Brothers (Japanese Version) And Copper Hoarding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you thought the Hunt brothers story we discussed in class had a moral which was implemented, think again. It was repeated almost two decades later, with very similar consequences. This time though, it wasn&#8217;t silver, it was copper. And it wasn&#8217;t the US, it was Japan. And the firm was in on it. And [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.arnavsheth.net/2010/05/13/faim-608-the-hunt-brothers-translated-into-japanese/</link>
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		<title>An Index for Forward Rates, FRAs in South Africa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This has to do with our discussion of forward interest rates, and forward rate agreements (FRAs), in class last week. Two interesting news items: Firstly, about a year ago, Standard &#38; Poor&#8217;s came out with a number of country-specific forward interest rate arbitrage indices, that: &#8230;model the outcome of a forward interest rate arbitrage strategy that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.arnavsheth.net/2010/04/27/forward-rate-agreements-in-south-africa/</link>
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		<title>And a welcome to FAIM 608 also!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FAIM 608 students &#8211; welcome to my blog. I have posted links to the futures handouts we used in class. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fblog.arnavsheth.net%2F2010%2F04%2F18%2Fand-a-welcome-to-faim-608-also%2F'; addthis_title = 'And+a+welcome+to+FAIM+608+also%21'; addthis_pub = '';]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.arnavsheth.net/2010/04/18/and-a-welcome-to-faim-608-also/</link>
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		<title>Welcome GMAN 322 Students.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was nice meeting you all last night, and I look forward to our quarter together. A couple of things to get done before the next class: Register for this class (GMAN 322) at smcmba.com. Please do this ASAP, so I can start sending out emails, if necessary. Buy A Random Walk Down Wall Street. Here&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.arnavsheth.net/2010/04/14/welcome-gman-322-students/</link>
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		<title>FAIM 608: HW 7 Changes + Solutions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HW 7 solutions are now posted. Please note the following: Do Problem 11.9, and NOT 11.10. The latter is about  pricing puts using binomial trees, which we did not talk about. (If you&#8217;re interested, however, the only difference is that you go short on the stock and long on the calls for the riskless portfolio). [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.arnavsheth.net/2009/12/10/faim-608-hw-7-changes-solutions/</link>
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		<title>FAIM 608: Slides</title>
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		<link>http://blog.arnavsheth.net/2009/12/08/faim-608-slides/</link>
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