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We are offering free webinars in which we demonstrate how to make full use of ApaLibNET's extensive functionality. A valid license is not a requirement, you find the subscription form at the bottom of this page.

Currently scheduled webinars...

Topic: Clustering & Graph Functionality

Date: May 17, 2024

Time: 1-3pm, UTC +2 (Zurich, Switzerland time zone)

Delivery: Microsoft Teams

Costs: Free

Speaker: Andreas Steiner

Content Outline:

  • Introduction
  • Hierarchical Clustering: Single, Complete & Average Linkage
  • Evaluating Clustering Results
  • Plotting Clustering Results: Dendrograms
  • Cluster-Based Portfolio Construction: Waterfall Allocations
  • k-Means Clustering
  • Distance Concepts: Correlation, Euclidian, Manhattan, Chebyshev & Minovski
  • Graph Theory: Minimum Spanning Tree, Freeman Centralization, Degree/Closeness/Eigenvector Centrality, Adjacency/Incidence Matrices, Shortest Distances
  • Online Tools for Plotting Minimum Spanning Trees
  • Discussion & Outlook

 

Topic: Temporal Aggregation and Disaggregation

Date: June 14, 2024

Time: 1-3pm, UTC +2 (Zurich, Switzerland time zone)

Delivery: Microsoft Teams

Costs: Free

Speaker: Andreas Steiner

Content Outline:

  • Introduction
  • Temporal Aggregation
    • Temporal Aggregation Matrix
    • New Aggregation Functions
    • Legacy Aggregation Function
  • Temporal Disaggregation
    • The Issue
    • Regression-Based Approaches:
      • Chow/Lin, Fernand
      • Chow/Lin, Fernandez, Litterman, Diagonal Methods
    • Temporal Disaggregation is not Imputation
  • Other Temporal Functionality
    • Rolling Windowing
    • Exponentially-Weighted Observations
  • Discussion & Outlook

Participants will receive all spreadsheet examples and presentation slides after the event.

Past events, which will be scheduled again at a later point...

  • April 2024: Imputation - Filling Data Gaps
  • February 2024: Mean-Variance Portfolio Construction
  • January 2024: Probability Distributions
  • December 2023: Correlation Scenario Analysis and Stress Testing
  • November 2023: Conditional Correlations

Upcoming events, which will be scheduled at a later point...

  • tba: Contribution and Attribution Calculations
  • tba: Return and Performance Calculations
  • tba: Risk & Risk-Adjusted Performance Measurement

 

If you would like to subscribe to the webinar series, please send us the information below. We will email you meeting links before each event.