# All Questions

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### Evaluation of portfolio other than Sharpe Ratio

Is sharp eratio always the best way to evaluate a portfolio? I'm not really sure what this potential interview question wants me to answer. I have read that Sharpe ratio essentially explains how ...
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### Calculating Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)

Trying to answer a question from an textbook but struggling a bit to use the formula. I am trying to calculate the WACC on this particular set of data: So I have that: Re = 20.69 Rd = 1842 ...
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### What is the maximum of a brownian motion with drift over the interval [t_1,t_2]

I am having a problem deriving the equation: $P(max_{(t_1 \leq t \leq t_2)} S(t) > B | S(t_1),S(t_2))= e^{-\frac{2}{T}ln\bigg{(}\frac{B}{S(t_1)}\bigg{)} ln\bigg{(}\frac{B}{S(t_2)}\bigg{)}}$ ...
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### Duration of a floating rate bond

It is known that the price $p_t$ of a floating rate bond can be calculated discounting $(L+k)$ the sum of the next coupon payment $k$ and the face value $L$ at the relevant risk-free rate. Hence, ...
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### Different ways to discretize forward rate in HJM

I've come across couple of different ways to discretize the forward rate equation in HJM. If somebody could please help me understand why is it possible to have multiple ways here and how to pick up ...
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### Assumptions of the One-Fund Theorem

What are the assumptions of the One-Fund Theorem? (You can look it up here for example: https://www.math.washington.edu/~burke/crs/408/fin-proj/mark1.pdf ) Is the assumption that the market offers ...
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### Where can I find ETF fund flow data?

I know mutual fund data can easily be found on CRSP or Thomson Reuters, but where can I find solid ETF data, specifically their flows?
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### Is Complete Vega Elimination Possible?

I avoid short selling in my strategies. Losing more than invested is not attractive. But at times the implied volatility is too high, I am worried about buying at all and I am trying to filter the ...
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### Delta of binary option

What is the Delta of an at-the-money binary option with a payo out $0$ at $<100$ dollars, and payout $1$ at $>100$ dollars, as it approaches expiry? This is from a sample interview exam. I ...
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### Calibration of Dothan Model to Yields

For both the Vasicek and CIR model the yields $R(t,T)$ and short rates $r_t$ have an affine relationship: $$R(t,T) = \frac{B(t,T)r_t - A(t,T)}{T-t},$$ where $A(t,T)$ and $B(t,T)$ are determined by ...
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### Investment Grade Bond vs Junk Bond, whose duration is larger?

Just wondering how to calculate duration when take credit risk into consideration. I think if duration is calculated as weighted average of cashflow time, and weights are calculated using present ...
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### Non-parametric estimator - CVAR / Expected shortfall

Is the estimation of the CVAR using known non-parametric methods (histogram , kernels) is different than the estimation of any other R.V.? If the answer is yes, then I am interested to know whether ...
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### Coupled Black-Scholes equations

Could someone provide me some information about the modelling of several options at the same time by using Black-Scholes (probably coupled) equations? Specifically I am wondering if in finance one has ...
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### VAR(1) - GARCH(1,1) model estimation in R

Can someone please help in explaining the steps involved to estimate the parameters of VAR(1)-GARCH(1,1) model of Mcaleer 2003 in r. It is a multivariate GARCH model where the mean equation is ...
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### Finding metal price data from LME

Does anyone know any sites that allows you to download free historical monthly metal (copper and aluminium) price data, the best would be LME data. I need historical spot prices, inventory, ...
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### Intuition behind Fama-French factors

In the Fama-French 3-factor model the portfolio returns are explained by the market the SMB factor (Small [market capitalization] Minus Big) and the HML factor (High [book-to-market ratio] Minus ...
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### Stress Testing of the portfolio containing Equities, Bonds and Options

I have a portfolio containing equities, bonds and options for which I have calculated VAR through variance covariance matrix. No I want to calculate the stressed VAR for which I have adopted the ...
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### How do Hedge Fund and Mutual Fund mark-to-mark structured notes?

Structured notes are not actively traded. Actually some of them are not traded at all as they are intended to be held-to-maturity. 1.When Hedge Fund and Mutual Fund buy structured notes, how do they ...
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### European Markovian option

Background information: Consider a European contingent claim with payoff $V(S_T)$, where $V: \mathbb{R}_+\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is a function which assigns a value to the payoff based on the price of ...
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### Is it possible to download stock-data countrywise with quantmod package for R?

Is it possible to download stock-data countrywise with quantmod package for R ? Hi, I'm wondering if it's possible to download equities countrywise. Let's say i want all data from the Finnish ...
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### Payoff of a butterfly c++

I would like to price options (call, put,, butterfly) with monte-carlo method, but actually I need the expression of the butterflay payoff; Could you ^please help me !