Value at Risk, a widely used risk measure of the risk of loss on a specific portfolio of financial assets.
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How does Cornish-Fisher VaR (aka modified VaR) scale with time?
I am thinking about the time-scaling of Cornish-Fisher VaR (see e.g. page 130 here for the formula).
It involves the skewness and the excess-kurtosis of returns. The formula is clear and well ...
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What approaches are there for stress testing a portfolio?
Wikipedia lists three of them:
Extreme event: hypothesize the portfolio's return given the recurrence of a historical event. Current positions and risk exposures are combined with the historical ...
