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Finance does not understand the physics of preferential attachment. According to Taleb, the intuitively appealing preferential attachment is incomplete. This is a tragedy for his ‘Black Swan’ because preferential attachment is the other name for ‘Rich Get Richer’. Taleb bases his philosophy of randomness on the non-normal power law behavior which is also another way…

The two Nobel Prizes awarded in Economics in 1990 [1] and 2013 [2] define the boundaries of Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT). Size is the pillar for both the models.

Though ‘Size’ is the most important factor explaining stock market returns, the possibility of size being a proxy was first mentioned in Banz (1978). Even after forty years of factor investing the industry is still looking for answers. This paper chronologically lists the research on ‘Size’ and why the question regarding ‘The Size Proxy’ has…

Before we talk about Blockchain disruption, let us talk about the implosion happening on Wall Street. The Realization that stock picking is dead [1] after decades of Active underperformance [2] has made beating the market an adventure sport, where only a few succeed.

Investment management which is worth USD 70 trillion can be seen like a fruit basket. The job of the fund manager was to select the fruits from the market and sell it to the investor.

The rich do not always get richer. Explaining this probabilistically resolves a 100-year-old puzzle, opening up opportunities for smart beta portfolios, an architecture of complexity and eventually an architecture of data that could become Web 4.0.