Fear Index - full deck Flashcards
1
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Quote at the start of Chapter One - “Learn from me”
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Frankenstein
2
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Main protagonist
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Dr Alex Hoffmann
3
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Where does Hoffmann live
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Geneva
4
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Book sent to Hoffmann at start
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The Expressions of the Emotions in Man and Animals - Darwin
5
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When was the Darwin published
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1872 - John Murray
6
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What condition/value is the Darwin book?
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“fine” - $15,000
7
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Where has the Darwin book come from?
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Rosengaarden and NijenhuiseAntiquarian Scientific and Medical BooksEstablished 1911Prinsengracht 227 - Amsterdam
8
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Name of Hoffmann’s house
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Villa Claremont
9
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Hoffmann’s wife
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Gabrielle
10
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Where did the pictures in the Darwin book come from?
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Surrey Lunatic Asylum
11
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Name of Hoffmann’s algorithm
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VIXAL-4
12
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Hoffmann’s business partner
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Hugo Quarry
13
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Other books in Hoffmann’s collection
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On The Origin of Species - Sotherby’s, NYC, $125,000The DEscent of Man - Huxley’s copy
14
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Overnight execution dealer on VIXAL-4
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Susumu Takahashi
15
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VIXAL-4 is shorting …
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Proctor and Gamble, $62 a share
16
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Date Fear Index is set
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6th May 2010 - date of UK General Election
17
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Burglar alarm security code
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1729
18
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Significance of 1729
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Hardy and Ramanujan - taxi cabSmallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways
19
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Hoffmann sets alarm to
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06:30
20
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What does Hoffmann notice by the door when he investigates the break in
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Boots
21
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Emergency number in Switzerland
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117
22
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Time of break-in
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3:59am
23
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Lake next to Geneva
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Lac Leman
24
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What does Hoffmann see the intruder doing through the kitchen window
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Sharpening knives
25
Quote at the start of Chapter two -"A grain in the balance ..."
Darwin, Origin of Species
26
Police Inspector
Jean-Philippe Leclerc
27
Hoffmann's piano
Bechstein
28
Landscape in Hoffmann's living room
Auerbach
29
Gabriel's portraits derived from ...
MRI scans
30
What is Hoffmann hit by
Fire extinguisher
31
Hoffmann's nationality
American
32
Gabrielle's nationality
British
33
How long has Hoffmann lived in Switzerland
14 years
34
Where did Hoffmann used to work
CERN - LHC
35
Name of Hoffmann's company
Hoffmann Investment Technologies - HIT
36
What is Hoffmann's business?
Hedge fund
37
Hoffmann's staff
Housekeeper, main, gardener.
38
Hoffmann's security consultant
Maurice Genoud
39
How much did Hoffmann pay for the Villa Claremont
$60m
40
Carpet ...
Aubusson
41
Terminal on Hoffmann's desk
Bloomberg
42
French expert in Galvanism
Dr Guillaume-Benjamin-Armand Duchenne
43
What does Hoffman collect
First editions of scientific books
44
Tea in Hoffmann's kitchen
Taylors of Harrogate, Earl Grey
45
Gabrielle's exhibition
Human Contours
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Gallery where Gabrielle's exhibition is situated
Plaine de Plainpalais
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Gabrielle's history
Born in YorkshireUni of Salford - Art and FrenchRCA - MAWorked for UN in Geneva
48
Gabrielle's work in studio
3D scanned image of a foetus
49
Quote at the start of Chapter 3 - "Suspicion ..."
Darwin - Descent of Man
50
Which hospital is Hoffmann taken to?
University
51
Where was the party where Hoffmann met Gabriellse
Saint-Genis-Pouilly
52
Doctor treating Hoffmann at university hospital
Dr Muhammet Celik - Turkish
53
Hoffman sent for what sort of scan?
CAT - Computed Axial Tomography
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CAT technician
Fabian Tallon
55
Radiologist
Dr Dufort
56
Hoffmann's field
Autonomous Machine Reasoning (not AI)
57
What sort of scan is recommended for Hoffmann?
MRI - Magnetic Resonance Imagin
58
Portrait Gabrielle wanted to buy
Lucien Freud
59
Quote at the start of chapter 4 - "The Slightest Advantage"
Darwin - Origin of Species
60
Hugo Quarry's life
PPE from OxfordEx-wife and three children, Lutyens mansion in SurreySki chalet in Chamonix
61
Hoffmann's driver
Claude - not George
62
Newspaper being read on tram
Tribune de Geneve
63
Where in Geneva is HIT's office
Les Eaux-Vivies
64
Neighbours of HIT office
Salon de TheSupermarket
65
Datacomms backbone in Geneva
GV1 fibre-optic pipe
66
Other occupants of HIT's office
DigiSyst, EcoTel, EuroTel
67
Hoffmann's rule in his office
No paper
68
Bill Gates' book
Business at the Speed of Light
69
Hoffman's employees are mainly ...
Quants
70
Quarry's name for Hoffmann's staff
The Nerd World
71
Senior managers
Head of FinanceHead of RiskHead of OperationsQuarry - CEOHoffmann - President
72
Quarry's yacht
65m, Benetti of Viareggio = planning to call her Trade Alpha
73
Quarry's assistant
Amber
74
Where is Quarry taking clients to lunch
Beau-Rivage
75
How much is Quarry looking to raise
$1b - settle for 750m
76
Terms - two and twenty
2% annual fee20% performance fee
77
Quote at start of chapter 6 - Hardly any faculty ...
Darwin - Descent of Man
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Picture of Gabrielle ...
Pamplelonne beach, St Tropez
79
Hoffmann's award
Algorithmic Hedge Fund Manager of the Year
80
How much did the Darwin book cost
���10,000
81
Hoffmann's PA
Marie-Claude Durade
82
Three teams of Quants
IncubationTechnologyExecution
83
Hungarian quant
Imre Szabo
84
IBAN prefix KYD
Cayman Islands
85
Chief Risk Officer
Ganapathi Rajamani
86
Police HQ situated
Boulevard Carl-Vogt
87
Cern's location in Geneva
Zimeysa
88
Quarry's invitees - brother and sister
Etienne and Clarisse Mussard - grandfather had owned Fazy and Cie
89
Quarry's invitees - Most exotic
Elmira Gulzhan, 38, daughter of President of AzakhstanINSEAD graduateFrancois de Gombart-Tonnelle - lawyer
90
Quarry's invitees - NYC bankers
Ezra Klein, Winter Bay TrustBill Easterbrook, AmCor - spun off, now HIT's biggest investor
91
Quarry's invitees - others
Amschel HerxheimerIan Mould - Fife Building SocietyMieczyslaw Lukasinski - PolishLiwei Xu and Qu Zhang
92
Quote at start of Chapter 6 - No doubt wealth ...
Darwin, Descent of Man
93
HIT started with ...
$100 (mostly AmCor)
94
Current AUM
$10b
95
Increase in Net Asset Value
83%
96
Gap between market performance and fund performance
Alpha
97
Three year alpha
112%
98
Research spend
$32m a year - 60 brilliant minds
99
Hoffmann's quote - That is the flight of naked men
Elias Canetti in Crowds and Power
100
Aristotle, 350BC defined humans as
Zoon Logon Echon - rational animal, or animal with language
101
Average US college student reads ...
450 wpm
102
"What disturbs and alarms men are not the things but is opinions and fancies about the things"
Epictetus
103
What does Ezra Klein call Hoffmann's pitch?
Behavioural Finance
104
EMH
Efficient Market Hypothesis
105
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"
FDR
106
VIX
S&P 500 Volatility Index
107
Where did Hoffmann interview for staff in Oxford?
Randolph Hotel
108
3D model of structure of penicillin in Oxford ...
Dr Dorothy Hodgkin - nobel laureate for Chemistry
109
Parts of the brain
Aqueduct of SylviusCistern of great cerebral veintentorium cerebellummedulla
110
Gabrielle's protection
Camille
111
MCs being shorted
Accenture
112
Airline being shorted
Vista Airways
113
Hotel company being shorted
Wyn Resorts
114
How many CPUs?
1000
115
Where does the Vista Airways plane crash?
Domodedovo Airport, Moscow
116
Quote at start of chapter 7 - It can't continue forever
Gordon Moore
117
Chief Finance Officer
Lin Ju-Long
118
Chief Operating Officer
Pieter van der Zyl
119
Where was Rajamani poached from?
FSA in London
120
At the FSA, Rajamani had gone after ...
Goldman and Sachs
121
Promised volatility limit in prospectus
20%
122
HIT's lawyer
Max Gallant
123
How much has Alex supposed to have asked to be transferred into his Cayman Islands account
$42m
124
Cayman banki
Royal Grand Cayman Bank Ltd
125
Hoffmann's doctor
Jeanne Polidori
126
Hoffmann's protection
Olivier Paccard
127
Fountain in middle of Lac Leman
Jet d'Eau - 140m
128
Gallery where Human Contours is being held
Galerie d'Art Contemporain Guy Bertrand
129
Quote at start of chapter 8 - There is no exception to the rule
Darwin, Origin of Species
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Geneva's main contemporary art gallery
MAMCO
131
Where did Gabrielle meet Guy Bertrad
Mandarin Oriental hotel - Christmas charity auction
132
How many pieces in Human Contours
27
133
Who held the party where Hoffmann met Gabrielle
Bob Walton
134
Gabrielle's large piece of an executed murderer
The Invisible Man
135
Who was the murderer in The Invisible Man
James Duke Johnson - executed Florida, 1994
136
Hoffmann's team at CERN
Large Electron-Positron Collider
137
Quote at start of Chapter 9 - Even when we are quite alone
Darwin - Descent of Man
138
Where did Hoffmann take his PR firm to breakfast
Hotel President Wilson
139
How much to keep Hoffmann out of the papers
SFR200,000 a year - 10k per mention
140
Hoffmann's alma mater
Princeton
141
Bertrand's ring tone
Mozart
142
Total cost of Gabrielle's exhibition
192,000 francs
143
Nigerian artist at show
Nneka Osoba
144
Quote at start of chapter 10 - the instinct of each species
Darwin - origin of species
145
River in Geneva
Rhone
146
Hotel Beau Rivage is on ...
Quai de Mont Blanc
147
Stabbed outside Hotel Beau Rivage in 1898
Empress of Austria
148
Lunch at Beau Rivage
Grenouille de VallorbeFilet mignon de veau
149
Wine at Beau Rivage
2006 Louis Jadot Montrachet Grand Cru1995 Latour
150
Marginal top rate of tax in Switzerland
8.80%
151
Quote at start of chapter 11 - the struggle for existence
Darwin, Origin of Species
152
Hotel where Hoffmann is directed to
Hotel Diodati, Rue de Berne 91, room 68
153
Man Hoffmann kills at the Hotel Diodati
Joseph KarpBorn 14-4-52 - age 58Offenbach am Mein
154
Real life case of cannibalism
Der Rotenberg Cannibal - Armin Meiwes
155
Novel on Karp's laptop
Der Metzgermeister - The Master Butcher
156
Folder on Karp's laptop - Das Opfer
The Victim
157
Park Gabrielle goes to after leaving her show
Parc des Bastions
158
When did HIT set up shop
2002
159
Quarry's ghastly neighbours in Wimbledon let in the chalet
Bakers
160
How far does Quarry come to see Hoffmann on New Years Eve
60 miles
161
What do Quarry and Hoffmann bet on
Gabrielles' knickers
162
HIT named with a nod to ...
Jim Simon's quant shop - Renaissance Technologies on Long Island
163
Normalcy is overrated: most normal people are assholes
Bill Clinton
164
Quote at start of Chapter 13 - The extinction of species
Darwin - Origin of Species
165
What is Vixel-4 lifting
Delta Hedge
166
Hugo Quarry's speedboat
Riva 115 - photograph
167
How much collateral does HIT have to raise when VIXEL-4 lifts the delta hedge
$2.6bn
168
Quote at start of Chapter 14 - Only the paranoid survive
Andy Grove
169
Dr Jeanne Polidori's degree
Psychiatry, University of Geneva
170
When did Hoffmann stop seeing Dr Polidori
Nov-01
171
Footbridge across the Rhone
Passerelle de Chevres
172
Computer in Cern's receptions
Berners-Lee's NeXT cube
173
Desertron
America's collider, Waxahachie, Texas - $10bn. Cancelled
174
How much did it cost the US to bail out the banks
$3.7tn
175
Quote at start of Chapter 15 - As I was considering these issues
Bill Gates, Business at the Speed of Light
176
What does Hoffmann find in a smoke alarm?
Camera
177
Who does Genoud say asked him to install the cameras?
Hoffmann
178
Where has Vixel-4 set up another facility for itself?
Zimeysa- 54 Route de Clerval
179
Warning about Hoffmann's project at CERN
Thomas S Ray, Professor of Zoology, University of Oklahoma
180
Quote from start of chapter 16 - Intelligent life on a planet comes of age
Richard Dawkins, the Selfish Gene
181
What is automatically triggered in New York as a result of the volatility triggered by VIXEL-4
LRPs - Liquidity Replenishment Points
182
Oxford graduate trying to override VIXEL-4
Croker, ex-Rutherford Appleton lab
183
How does Rajamani die?
Falls down the lift shaft
184
Leclerc's colleagues at the Diodati
Moynier, Lollin
185
What car does Hoffmann steal?
BMW
186
Evidence regarding LRPs
Mary Shapiro, Findings regarding market events 6th May 2010
187
Zimeysa is an acronym for
Zone Industrielle de Mayrin-Satigny
188
What are all the roadworks in Zimeysa for?
Fibre optic cables
189
Fibre landing site
Marseille, France
190
CBEO declares what agains the NYSE
Self help - more than one second response
191
Where do protesters riot on the news?
Athens
192
Quote at start of Chapter 18 - The flight crowd ...
Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power
193
Quote at start f Chapter 19 - Looking to the future
Darwin, Origin of Species
194
Profit VIXAL-4 makes from crash
$4.1bn
195
How much total market volatility does that represent
0.40%
196
Bonuses received for keeping everything confidential
$5m
