For more than a decade of my life I was a professional student (which means that I worked, took exams on the side for a professional designation and waited for a very long time to add three letters against my name). A chapter that started in the monsoons of ’89 in Bombay finally closed itself…
Author: Jawwad
Unrisk…
I have now been doing this “risk” business for more than a decade. Eleven years ago, right about this time, I was rudely introduced to my first risk application. Fresh from my actuarial exams, I was stumped on an interview question dealing with moments of a distribution. I have read the material, struggled with it,…
Pakistan’s Macro Economic Snapshot – July
A Pakistan Risk Review Extract Inflation (Year on Year): The non-food, non- energy (NFNE) core inflation index, has begun responding to a decline in the inflationary series and as at July 2009 stands at 14%. CPI, WPI and core inflation are year-on-year figures, i.e. they represent the percentage change in index during a month over…
Pakistan Macro Economic Profile – Earlier this year
Here is an extract from Pakistan Risk Review’s second volume. This is where we were earlier this year. Pakistan’s Macro Economic Snapshot – March& April 09 Inflation (Year on Year): After peaking in August 2008, the consumer price index (CPI) and wholesale price index (WPI) have declined. The non-food, non- energy (NFNE) core inflation index,…
Good data, models, instincts and statistics.
Risk and transaction systems differ in many ways. But they both suffer from a common ailment – Good data and working models. On a risk platform the integrity of the data set is dependent on the underlying transaction platform and the quality of data feeds. Keeping the incoming stream of information clean and ensuring that…
Yusuf Jan goes and breaks out a song…
Yusuf Jan took out two weeks out of his busy expat schedule in Karachi to trounce the geeks can’t sing and produce jack myth. His Green and white song is slowly climbing the viewing numbers on Youtube and was played on a number of FM stations today in Karachi. Yusuf is conspiring with fellow PASHA…
Who says good guys finish last…
Imran Zia aka Zia and/or Imran to friends, is someone that I have an enormous amount of respect for. We ran into each other when he started using Blue Screen of Death to teach entrepreneurship at FAST ICS. Then we worked together on the PASHA platform doing Startup Insider (SI) sessions, as co-judges on the…
Reboot – Order forms
You can now fax or email us your purchase order forms for Reboot – In search for the land of opportunity. The book has been priced at Rupees 990 per copy or 13 US$ plus shipping. Finally we get to see the print edition. All thanks to Abdul Malick, an SP Jain student who fortunately…
Blue Screen of Death – in print
Thanks to a very generous student who helped put the deal together, the Blue Screen of Death (retitled Reboot) will be out in print within the next three weeks. Taking advance orders now for the print edition. The book has been printed in Singapore. Drop me a line in the number of copies you would…
Alternate route to the airport…
As of 10:30 -11:00 am there was a fair amount of standing water immediately after the Shahra-e-Faisal Bridge to the airport. If you need to still get to Karachi airport to catch a flight or pick up a visitor, take a right into Shah Faisal Colony and follow the road into Shah Faisal till you…