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Subject: semantic wiki

A semantic wiki is a wiki that has an underlying model of the knowledge described in its pages.
Regular wikis have structured text and untyped hyperlinks (such as the links in this article).
Semantic wikis allow the ability to capture or identify further information about the pages (metadata) and their relations.
Usually this knowledge model is available in a formal language, so that machines can process it. The technologies developed by the Semantic Web community build the basis for reasoning about the knowledge model.
Capital Market Wiki is a semantic wiki. Its articles are organized in accordance with a Capital Market Taxonomy using the MediaWiki Semantic Wiki software extension. (Source: Capital Market Wiki)

Post Modern Security Analysis

Taxonomy for collaborative research

New Technology

Post Modern Securities Analysis deals with methods of collaborative research that are designed to deal with the tsunami of free, open source investment information now available, principally on the Internet.

The range of information relevant to capital markets is so vast that specialized technology is required to process data and organize collaboration with efficiency.

Capital Market Taxonomy and the use of semantic wikis are discussed in this article.

Post Modern Security Analysis

Crowd sourcing investment research

Free information bears the cost of time

Free, easily available investment information is largely unexploited. This is because there is too much of it.

Information, to be useful, must be processed. This processing has a time cost.

This article describes how new technology allows securities research to evolve beyond the industrial techniques of the 20th century.

Crowd sourcing and collaborative research, semantic wikis, and Capital Market Taxonomy are discussed in this article.

The inefficient market

Free information has a time cost

Is Neuberger Berman

The Crash of 2008 showed that the Efficient Market Hypothesis was fantasy. Although there is a huge amount of free information about investments available on the Internet, this takes time to extract and understand and time has a cost.

With too much free information, the law of diminishing returns kicks in. Critical information passes unnoticed.

Technologies are now available that allow us to take advantage of free information more effectively.

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Stock buybacks, refusing to die, live on

In Q1 2009, stock buybacks came back, driving up equity prices and sparking a rally by dominating a thin market. These equity repurchases were financed from depreciation and bond issues. More ...

Securities Analysis

Are investors being misled?

Mutual funds are sold primarily on the basis of 'performance' measured by historical 'total return'.The famous Morningstar 'star' rating system is based on 'total return', in this case 'risk-adjusted total return' relative to funds of the same asset category.
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US Politics

America grows with legal immigration

Legal immigration has resulted in solid growth of the US population, despite declining birth rates and an increasing number of old people. This is good news for investors in stocks and real estate. Illegal immigration appears to be less than 5% of legal immigration, and legal immigration is at an all time high.
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US equities

Stocks surge on spurious earnings

In Q1 2009, stock buybacks came back, driving up equity prices and sparking a rally by dominating a thin market. These equity repurchases were financed from depreciation reserves and bond issues. More ...

US Bonds

Bond demand exceeds supply for a decade

Over the decade, 1995-2004, the demand for US bonds of all types has surpassed new bond issues in eight of the last ten years. This is the reason that bond prices have held firm, even in 2003, when net new issues reached almost $1.8 trillion. More ...

World Economy

What Is ‘International Liquidity’?

It used to be that the term 'international liquidity' meant the relative amount of resources available to a nation's monetary authorities that could be used to settle a balance of payments deficit. In the days of the gold standard, this would mean access to gold that could be used to redeem a nation's currency held by foreigners. More ...

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