Felix Salmon
Felix Salmon is a financial journalist, formerly of Portfolio Magazine and Euromoney, and a blogging editor for Reuters. He was also author of a Wired cover story on the Gaussian copula.[1][2]
Education
Salmon is a graduate of the University of Glasgow and moved to the United States from the United Kingdom in 1997.[3]
Career
He began blogging in 1999 for the wire service Bridge News, segueing into a job for noted economist Nouriel Roubini.[4]
In 2007 he argued that margin calls are not dangerous for CDO market and gave example of Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Enhanced Leverage Fund where "leverage got brought down pretty painlessly to $1.2 billion in leverage without any fire sales and without any bailout from Bear itself"[5] — half year after that Bear Stearns went bankrupt[6] and Late-2000s financial crisis has started.
Post Crisis
The American Statistical Association presented Salmon with the 2010 Excellence in Statistical Reporting Award "for his body of work, which exemplifies the highest standards of scientific reporting. His insightful use of statistics as a tool to understanding the world of business and economics, areas that are critical in today's economy, sets a new standard in statistical investigative reporting."[7]
Salmon published an article in Wired Magazine 27 December 2010 explaining high frequency trading on Wall Street. [8] This was followed by an interview on the national radio station NPR. The program aired on 13 January 2011.[9].
[edit] References
- ^ Felix Salmon Blog Reuters.com
- ^ Salmon, Felix (2009-02-23). "Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street". Wired. http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-03/wp_quant?currentPage=all. Retrieved 22 May 2009.
- ^ Bio page: Felix Salmon SeekingAlpha.com
- ^ Salmon, Felix. "Landing at Reuters". Reuters. http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/04/01/landing-at-reuters/l. Retrieved 22 May 2009.[dead link]
- ^ Fred Salmon, Why Margin Calls Need Not Destroy the CDO Market, 29 Jun 2007]
- ^ [http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/28/magazines/fortune/boyd_bear.fortune/ The last days of Bear Stearns ]
- ^ "Excellence in Statistical Reporting Award". American Statistical Society website. http://www.amstat.org/careers/excellenceinstatisticalreportingaward.cfm. Retrieved 23 May 2010.
- ^ Salmon, Felix (27 December 2010). "Algorithms Take Control of Wall Street". Wired. http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/12/ff_ai_flashtrading/all/1.
- ^ Salmon, Felix. http://www.npr.org/2011/01/13/132629284/how-high-frequency-trading-is-changing-wall-street.
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