"This book is the first part of Applications and Trends in Fintech, which serves as a comprehensive guide to the advanced topics in fintech, including the deep learning and natural language processing algorithms, blockchain design thinking, token economics, cybersecurity, cloud computing and...

Hedge funds are collective investment vehicles fast becoming popular with high net worth individuals as well as institutional investors. Given an incentive structure that involves fees based on performance, this paper proposes a structure and quot;equalizationquot; process that is both equitable...

Mathematics plays a vital role in many areas of finance and provides the theories and tools that have been widely used in all areas of finance. In this editorial, we tell authors the ideas on what types of papers we will accept for publication in the area of mathematical finance. We will discuss...

The Efficient Market Hypothesis states that it is impossible for an investor to outperform the market because all available information is already built into stock prices. However, some anomalies could persist in stock markets while some other anomalies could appear, disappear and re-appear...

We analyze the impact of the most recent global financial crisis (GFC) on the seven most important Latin American stock markets. Our mean-variance analysis shows that the markets are significantly less volatile and, in general, investors prefer to invest in the post-GFC period. Our results from...

Rounding errors have a considerable impact on statistical inferences, especially when the data size is large and the finite normal mixture model is very important in many applied statistical problems, such as bioinformatics. In this article, we investigate the statistical impacts of rounding...