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Index volatility based options trading

The article below is part of the paper I co-authored for the Algorithmic trading class, I took at Duke University. The project entailed creating a trading algorithm based on identifying volatility arbitrage opportunities to trade share options with indices as the underlying. To isolate the volatility arbitrage opportunities, the team explored using delta hedging. This …

Impact of transfer learning techniques in identifying the type of damage on an image for car insurance claims

Claims processing for car insurance can be an administratively costly process as the time investment required from claim adjusters can be intensive. Most expenses incurred by insurance companies are passed on to policyholders, so any process optimizations should be beneficial to both the company and the policyholder. The main objective of the project was to …

Brazil vehicle insurance analysis of claim drivers

Brazil vehicle insurance analysis of claim drivers Final Project Report – IDS702 Ronald Tinashe Nhondova – RTN6 Summary This report covers an extensive analysis on a portolio of policies from Brazil automobile insurance industry with data based on AUTOSEG (Statistical System for Automobiles) for the year 2011. The aim of the analysis was to get …