These draft chapters weave together a collection of tools for the data scientist—tools that are all part of the R Statistical Software Suite. Each chapter is a  collection of one (or more) pages that cover particular aspects of the topic.

So far, equities have reacted well to falling bond prices, but this may not last for much longer according to Peter Oppenheimer, Chief Global Equity Strategist at Goldman Sachs. In this month’s issue of Goldman Sachs’ Top of Mind monthly magazine, Mr.

Len Kiefer, Deputy Chief Economist at Freddie Mac, recently posted an analysis of global housing price trends based on the international house price database (from the Dallas Fed).

ETF Trends (hat tip Josh) showed the following “quilt” of large cap factor calendar year returns in the post Low Volatility is Not a Buy and Hold Strategy. Momentum tends to work better over shorter periods of look back periods (6, 9, 12 months).

The IRR clock starts ticking from day one, and the first months of a deal are critical to establishing its pace and trajectory and the relationship between the PE firm and portfolio company.

Piña Colada, a powerful and extensible wireless pineapple, capable of performing a wide range of remote offensive attacks on a network. It can currently be controlled only via a command line interface, but a Command and Control remote server functionality is coming soon.

Robust U.S. economic data released last week helped push yields higher. A weekly jobless claims report showed the number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits increased by 17,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 268,000.

Makes it easy to download a large number of trade data from Yahoo or Google Finance. Please use the canonical form http://ift.tt/2fpgBKV to link to this page.

As tireless advocates for the importance of Return on Invested Capital (ROIC), we’ve been encouraged to see a growing appreciation for the metric in the investment community. Most recently, ROIC ranked as the most important metric for investment decisions according to a survey of global investors.

Carlyle Group (NASDAQ:CG) is one of the premier alternative assets managers, historically generating 19% annualized on its investments net of fees and 11% gross within the last twelve months. It trades at just 7.5x normalized earnings, 0.8x book, and possesses a 13.