About Me
I am a self employed Karachiite with a questionable work ethic and a penchant for founding companies that run into trouble.
After spending all of four and a half years outside Pakistan, I headed back home on New Year’s eve ’02 to find that it was far easier to live and do business at home… Economist, WSJ and the rest of the world media be damned. I started blogging so that if you ever wanted a contrarian opinion on my city, on working for yourself, on Pakistan or my two cents on just about everything else, you will have me pop up on google.
My claim to fame is a book on failure that failed to become a best seller.
I am still working on it.
Age: Almost 36
- Gender: Male
- Astrological Sign: Leo
- Zodiac Year: Boar
- Industry: Consulting
- Occupation: Actuary, Risk Manager, Techno Geek Turncoat
- Location: Karachi : Pakistan
Interests
- Writing
- Startups
- Failure
- Karachi
- Teaching
- Risk Management
- Technology
- Enterpreneur
- New Ventures
- Product development
Favorite Movies
- Fifth Element
- Twelve Monkeys
- Orange County
- Dune
- Spy Game
- The Matrix
- Nixon
- JFK
- Heat
- Traffic
- A Fish Called Wanda
- Love Actually
- The Game
- North by Northwest.
Favorite Music
- Techno
- Ten Thousand Maniacs
- Dire Straits
- Country
- Irish
- Sting
- Fuzon
- Noori.
Favorite Books
- Cryptonomicon
- Interface
- Snow Crash
- Zodiac
- Catch 22
- Next
- Stephen King on writing
- Absolute Friends
- Constant Gardener
- Our Game
- Taylor of Panama
- The Alchemist
- Marathon Man.
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[...] For everyone in Lahore and Islamabad, SI5 and SI6 is happening over the weekend. Jehan and I have already arrived in Islamabad, and will insha Allah be in Lahore on Sunday. Jawwad plans to fly in tomorrow.. For details please use the following links: [...]
[...] I am in touch with my lawyer Zahid Jamil about some very incriminating and defamatory photographs posted on various blogs. I am quite sure that these pictures have gone through a lot of electronic adulteration and thus fall under various clauses of Pakistan’s e-crime bill. I think it is my right to sue the likes of Jedi who claims to be my friend. But with posts like this and this, he’s definitely looking to talk to my lawyer. As for Mr. Owais, I want all pictures in these series, along with negatives and all copies made, immediately. [...]
[...] supposed to do when all of that effort ends up as being a grand failure? Well, if you are Jawwad Farid, you write a book about the lesson learned AND start another [...]
Dear Sir,
I am extremely sorry for posting my query here. Actually I was trying to look for your email or something but just couldn’t so finally I am posting here and sincerely apologize for the same.
Sir, I am trying to learn portfolio VaR and I came to an Excellent article written by you “Master Class: Calculating Value at Risk (VaR): First Steps” which is available at
http://finance.oilinsights.net/2010/03/master-class-calculating-value-at-risk-var-first-steps/
Sir, for a fresher like me, this is best article and I for one have been immensely benefited. Sir, w.r.t. this article I do have one small query as given here -
Sir in STEP P3, after “The resulting interpolated PKRV rate series”, Sir, you have calculated the price of the bond at each data point using defined parameters like Settlement date, coupon rate etc, but teh actual formula whcih you had used is missing.
Sir, will it be possible for you to send that formula at julia_cains@yahoo.com. I will be too grateful to you as I found your examples and article to be the best for someone who has just started learning Value at risk concept.
I once again sincerely apologize for writing here.
With regards
Julia Cains,
Brisbane
Dear Julia.
You can write at jawwad at the rate alchemya dot com. My apologies for the missing references. You and find them at the Equation reference here http://finance.oilinsights.net/derivative-pricing-risk-management-financial-engineering-equation-reference/
Please let me know if there is anything else I can do to help.
Regards
jawwad
Dear Jawwad Sahab,
Hope you are doing well.
I need your help regarding macroeconomics.
Please if you can spare sometime for me, i would really be grateful.
Kindly email me so that i can then send you the questions abt macroeconomics.
Allah Hafiz.
Many thanks & kind regards,
Shabeela