Hi David,

First of all some thumbs up: I am enjoying your method a lot. It helps keeping my momentum in studying the material.

Some questions:

1. Can you please number the pages of the slides?

2. Maybe it’s too much to ask, but I would appreciate it if you read out (and comment) on all the text on the learning objective (and maybe give some tips how to remember them). The reason is that I listen to the casts on my ipod in my car every day. If not, no problem…

3.  It would be nice if you could link some more material to real life cases. For example, some more anecdotes about how companies use VaR, where and why it went wrong, what is the intuiting behind using MVaR, and how are companies using it, etc. This would spicy the casts a bit up, and makes it easier to remember things.

Thanks,
Ened

Hi Ened,

Thank you on two counts. First, that you are “enjoying the method a lot” is the thing I care most about, so thank you for affirming that. Second, fantastic feedback!

1. Yes, starting with next episode (Market C, VaR), will do page #

2. Not too much to ask, I never considered that somebody might not be viewing. I only pause to give relief from my voice, but I can try this with a mind toward some may be listening only

3. This is a terrific suggestion. The answer is, of course, I think we could do better by tying the abstract to concrete - I totally agree. Each new episode requires quite a bit of time to prepare, so I can agree to this as an *aspirational principle* as I think this is a way to make the material more relevant/memorable. I can’t promise immediate, visible traction in this regard, but later in the year, as I wind down on the formal AIMs, I am planning to do a series of “high-density” burst topics (e.g., portfolio VaR) and I think we can plan to imbue them with a bit more case-like reality.

Thanks again for giving ideas that lead to improvement! David