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2 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Carmen Reinicke |Sam Potter
World's first mass-produced flying car will go on sale within months - for $1 MILLIONIt might sound like something from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - but flying cars could soon be jetting passengers around Europe by next …
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Feb 11, 2025 | 
wealthmanagement.com | Sam Potter |Denitsa Tsekova
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
americanbanker.com | Sam Potter
John McQuown, who started a $12 trillion financial revolution with the creation of the first index fund, has died. He was 90. He died on Tuesday, according to Dimensional Fund Advisors, a pioneering quant-investing firm where he was a founding director. No further details were available.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
advisorperspectives.com | Sam Potter |Justina Lee
Cliff Asness says he sounds like an “old man whinging,” but that’s not stopping him from writing 23 pages on his latest thesis: Financial markets these days aren’t what they were. The often-cantankerous co-founder of AQR Capital Management just published new research that amounts to a detailed exposition of an argument he has repeatedly raised of late, namely that the market has become less efficient over the course of his more than three-decade career.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Lu Wang |Sam Potter
Financial wizards have conjured up possibly their most dizzying product yet in the quest to ride the derivatives boom: Cboe Global Markets Inc. is poised to offer options on futures for an index based on options on another index. The Chicago-based firm plans to issue options tied to futures for the Cboe Volatility Index, the famous “fear gauge” otherwise known as the VIX. That gauge is itself built using options that track the S&P 500. The new contracts — scheduled to list on Oct.
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May 14, 2024 | 
claimsjournal.com | Sam Potter
Marty Malinow’s mom never could get her head around what her son did for a living. To friends, she said he was “a stockbroker that does something with the weather.” Malinow couldn’t really object — he knew most people had no clue about financial contracts based on things like sunshine, rainfall and wind. That’s beginning to change. Against a backdrop of rising climate volatility and social shifts, demand for weather derivatives is surging.
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May 11, 2024 | 
businessmirror.com.ph | Sam Potter
Marty Malinow’s mom never could get her head around what her son did for a living. To friends, she said he was “a stockbroker that does something with the weather.” Malinow couldn’t really object—he knew most people had no clue about financial contracts based on things like sunshine, rainfall and wind. That’s beginning to change. Against a backdrop of rising climate volatility and social shifts, demand for weather derivatives is surging.
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May 7, 2024 | 
thebrunswicknews.com | Sam Potter
Marty Malinow's mom never could get her head around what her son did for a living. To friends, she said he was "a stockbroker that does something with the weather." Malinow couldn't really object - he knew most people had no clue about financial contracts based on things like sunshine, rainfall and wind. That's beginning to change. Against a backdrop of rising climate volatility and social shifts, demand for weather derivatives is surging.
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May 7, 2024 | 
miamiherald.com | Sam Potter
Marty Malinow's mom never could get her head around what her son did for a living. To friends, she said he was "a stockbroker that does something with the weather." Malinow couldn't really object - he knew most people had no clue about financial contracts based on things like sunshine, rainfall and wind. That's beginning to change. Against a backdrop of rising climate volatility and social shifts, demand for weather derivatives is surging.
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May 6, 2024 | 
bloomberglinea.com.br | Sam Potter
Bloomberg — A mãe de Marty Malinow nunca conseguiu entender o que seu filho fazia para viver. Para os amigos, ela dizia que ele era “um corretor de ações que fazia algo com o clima”. Malinow não podia realmente discordar - ele sabia que a maioria das pessoas não tinha ideia sobre contratos financeiros baseados em coisas como sol, chuva e vento. Isso começa a mudar. Diante de crescente volatilidade climática e mudanças, a demanda por derivativos climáticos tem aumentado.
