https://blog.vifortech.com/ Recent content on Vifortech Solutions - Blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sun, 15 May 2022 12:37:00 +1000 https://blog.vifortech.com/posts/money-laundering-buying-elections-and-housing-affordability/ Sun, 15 May 2022 12:37:00 +1000 https://blog.vifortech.com/posts/money-laundering-buying-elections-and-housing-affordability/ <p>With the Australian federal election coming, both the Labor and the Liberal/National Coalition parties have announced policies to buy votes.</p> https://blog.vifortech.com/posts/lisp-mars-rover-2/ Sat, 15 Feb 2020 10:29:42 +1000 https://blog.vifortech.com/posts/lisp-mars-rover-2/ <p>Command line - Mars Rover Tech Challenge in common lisp</p> https://blog.vifortech.com/posts/lisp-mars-rover/ Sat, 08 Feb 2020 15:00:04 +1000 https://blog.vifortech.com/posts/lisp-mars-rover/ <p>Doing the Mars Rover Tech Challenge in common lisp!</p> https://blog.vifortech.com/posts/price-forecasts-comparison/ Sun, 27 Jan 2019 20:43:00 +1000 https://blog.vifortech.com/posts/price-forecasts-comparison/ It&rsquo;s good that finally the media is including forecasts when discussing the future of Australian&rsquo;s real estate prices. However we can improve on the forecasts being used. The CoreLogic Moody&rsquo;s forecasts that are quoted are regularly highly inaccurate; Vifortech Solutions has proved it can do better. Comparing the percentage error of annual forecasts in the discussion below, we see: In only one case is the Vifortech Solutions forecast wrong by more than 25%; and In four out of five cases the CoreLogic Moody&rsquo;s forecast is wrong by more than 30%. https://blog.vifortech.com/posts/emacs-tls-fix/ Tue, 24 Oct 2017 20:13:58 +1100 https://blog.vifortech.com/posts/emacs-tls-fix/ https://blog.vifortech.com/posts/flu-risk-management/ Thu, 05 Oct 2017 10:20:47 +1100 https://blog.vifortech.com/posts/flu-risk-management/ https://blog.vifortech.com/posts/real-estate-as-an-investment/ Wed, 26 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +1000 https://blog.vifortech.com/posts/real-estate-as-an-investment/ I recently presented at the 2017 Q Group colloquium on You can apply rigorous analytics to the real estate asset class (it doesn&rsquo;t have to be guesswork and slick salesmanship) I want to help people see that the real estate asset class can be treated as an investment, rather than speculation. In my view, buying one house, or even a handful, isn&rsquo;t investing, it is speculating. However, saying that, I do know you can treat real estate as an investment. https://blog.vifortech.com/posts/disasters-and-real-estate/ Fri, 09 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +1000 https://blog.vifortech.com/posts/disasters-and-real-estate/ Disasters happen to people The recent Cyclone Debbie was a disaster. People were hurt and killed. The psychological impact is, and will be, dreadful. I&rsquo;m not going to talk about the human impact - only the economics. I could not do justice to the people involved. I&rsquo;d suggest a visit to the Red Cross or similar organisation to help those impacted. Disasters are &ldquo;News&rdquo; The Cyclone Debbie disaster, naturally, made news worldwide (BBC, CNN, Guardian, NY Times) and of course real estate prices started getting discussed. https://blog.vifortech.com/posts/2017-qgroup-colloquium/ Mon, 05 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +1000 https://blog.vifortech.com/posts/2017-qgroup-colloquium/ I&rsquo;m excited to be presenting this year at The Institute of Quantitative Research in Finance Inc. (also known as the Q Group) colloquium. It&rsquo;s being held on Thursday, July 20. I&rsquo;ll be presenting on You can apply rigorous analytics to the real estate asset class (it doesn&rsquo;t have to be guesswork and slick salesmanship) The Q Group website is a good starting point to find out about the group. https://blog.vifortech.com/posts/honesty-in-forecasting/ Mon, 29 May 2017 00:00:00 +1000 https://blog.vifortech.com/posts/honesty-in-forecasting/ <p>The Australian media seems to be in love with talking about real estate. In particular <em>bubbles</em>, and (even though they don&rsquo;t use the term) <em>forecasts</em>.</p> https://blog.vifortech.com/posts/more-changes-at-corelogic-international/ Wed, 03 May 2017 12:08:00 +1000 https://blog.vifortech.com/posts/more-changes-at-corelogic-international/ Kyle Evans, the Chief Data Officer at CoreLogic International is leaving. His destination is Quantium. This comes after the recent resignation of CEO Graham Mirabito. Will this result in a change of direction? Only time will tell.