DAAS Kapital DAAS Kapital DAAS Kapital is an Australian television comedy series written by and starring comedy trio the Doug Anthony All Stars (Paul McDermott, Tim Ferguson and Richard Fidler) with supporting cast members Paul Livingston, Michael Petroni, Bob Downe and Khym Lam. The title is a reference to the trio's acronym "DAAS" and Karl Marx's economic treatise "Das Kapital". The series premiered on 15 July 1991, in Australia on the ABC network, and the season finale aired 7 July 1992. "DAAS Kapital" aired in 18 countries including Japan, Britain, USA and Germany and was released on DVD 20 March 2013 with
Financial Modelers' Manifesto Financial Modelers' Manifesto The Financial Modelers' Manifesto was a proposal for more responsibility in risk management and quantitative finance written by financial engineers Emanuel Derman and Paul Wilmott. The manifesto includes a Modelers' Hippocratic Oath. The structure of the Financial Modelers' Manifesto mirrors that of "The Communist Manifesto" of 1848. The Manifesto and Oath were written in response to the Financial crisis of 2007–2010 with the collapse of subprime mortgages. A shortened version was published in Business Week in December 2008 with the complete version appearing shortly afterwards; the full text is available here. Note that both authors had written