Herein we attempt to quantify Tom McClellan’s notion of Dance Steps between two series of data, often of differing time periods (a current, or dependent and a previous, or independent period data series), looking for similarities in the turning points to use as a reference for the future...

This note presents an extension of the Markoviz-type "mean-variance" portfolio optimisation approach over one period to portfolios of derivatives. Most notably, we show that once "writing off" parts of the portfolio is allowed, we naturally arrive at using "cash-invariant monotone hulls" a'la...

Eurodac is a centralised EU database that collects and processes the digitalised fingerprints of asylum seekers. Set up in 2003, it is currently used by all EU-28 countries as well as Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Eurodac stands for the EUROpean Asylum DACtyloscopy database....