Analysis
What Does a Bond Fund's Duration Actually Measure?
A fund's duration number looks abstract until rates move. What it measures, Macaulay versus modified, and where the number stops working.
Analysis: What the Numbers Mean
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Analysis
What does out-of-sample mean in a forecasting paper?
Out-of-sample scoring is the only published test that approximates live trading, and most papers still manage to overstate it.
Analysis
What replaced the guidance that has governed bank models since 2011?
Federal regulators rewrote model risk management guidance in April 2026, keeping the same validation core built around conceptual soundness and outcomes…
Analysis
The Fed's stress tests changed shape: what averaging does to comparability
The 2026 results — 32 banks, $708 billion in projected losses — arrive inside a methodology overhaul that trades year-to-year volatility for smoother…
Analysis
How to evaluate an alternative data vendor: a working checklist
Point-in-time integrity, provenance, history depth and decay tests — the questions that separate a signal from a spreadsheet.