Mack Frankfurter

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Seasoned professional with over 25 years of experience delivering complex enterprise-wide…

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  • Member, Editorial Review Board

    Pepperdine University GBR Editorial Review Board

    - 4 years 1 month

    Education

    University sponsored award-winning peer-reviewed journal written for business practitioners.

  • Board Member

    Lake Sherwood Community Association

    - 1 year 7 months

    Negotiated the creation of a single purpose water district with LAFCo and County Supervisors.

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    Member—Rotary Club of Agoura Hills

    Rotary International

    - 2 years 8 months

    2005/06 Program Director: facilitated speaking engagements for club; participated in community activities. Honorary Lions Club Member, District 4-L1.

Publications

  • Risk Reduction Isn't Just Semantics (Editor's Choice)

    Inside Reference Data

    Reduce risk, increase transparency, promote market integrity. This is the new normal for the financial industry as it comes to grip with stricter regulations and the need for better data governance. A major stumbling block in overcoming these challenges is breaching the “semantic barrier,” whereby the meaning of a term and its referent aligns with the concept in our mind(s).

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  • Tower of Babel, Semantics Initiative, and Ontology

    It should be apparent that intended use of systems is reliant on “human common sense” and understanding. Unfortunately, especially within the context of large organizations or across an industry, boundaries of intended use are often not documented and exist as “tribal knowledge”.

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  • Unifying Theory of Commodity Hedging and Arbitrage

    Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

    The complexity of managing physical and financial risk throughout the commodity value chain presents numerous challenges. Discussion unifies the theory of normal backwardation with theory of storage, macroeconomic general equilibrium with multiple equilibria, basis trading with arbitrage strategies, and the hedging response function with elastic/inelastic supply-demand economics.

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  • Being Smart About Stop Placement

    Futures Magazine

    The human mind is susceptible to perceptual distortion, inaccurate judgment and illogical interpretation. Ironically, "rules of thumb" are exactly the kind of readily accessible and loosely applicable problem solving strategies, known as heuristics, that lead to the issue of cognitive bias in the first place.

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  • Interview: Is Diversity in Danger?

    Opalesque Futures Intelligence

    OFI: How should investors classify CTAs? MF: Categorization is an understandable crutch, but it's a slippery slope that leads to pigeonholing and stifles the inquiry necessary to make investing successful.

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  • Market Risk: Known and Unknowns

    Futures Magazine

    Anatomize trading to its very core and therein lies the act of risk-taking. The saying goes that without risk, there is no reward. Thus, risk equates to opportunity and opportunity involves risk. It logically follows then that risk management is the determinate that separates skilled traders from the unskilled.

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  • Futures Lab: Is “Roll Yield” a Fictional Return?

    Opalesque Futures Intelligence

    If something is stated repeatedly as fact, does that make it necessarily true? We no longer believe the sun circles the earth, but that idea was once conventional wisdom...

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