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      <title>A high backtest Sharpe ratio proves little: what real validation requires</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Reported Sharpe ratios inflate with every unreported trial. The Deflated Sharpe Ratio and SR 11-7 set out what valid backtest evidence actually requires.]]></description>
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      <title>What replaced the guidance that has governed bank models since 2011?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Federal regulators rewrote model risk management guidance in April 2026, keeping the same validation core built around conceptual soundness and outcomes analysis while making the rules explicitly non-enforceable and leaving generative AI models outside their scope.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[A diagnostic built to answer one question a good Sharpe ratio can't: how much of a backtested strategy's performance is signal, and how much is the number of times it was tried.]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>Naomi Bergman</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[The SEC's first AI-washing settlements penalized false marketing about artificial intelligence, not a model's forecasting accuracy — a distinction that matters for anyone judging what a validated model requires.]]></description>
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