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Full Revaluation vs Factor-based Model for risk management
I am looking for literature on comparison of these two approaches.
It looks like many places are using some type of Factor-based Model (Barra, Axioma, Northfield, etc.) for risk management purposes. ...
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Hedging jump models with a infinite number of derivatives
First of all, I inform you that I am not a financial mathematician and have vague knowledge about an incomplete market.
Stochastic volatility models are incomplete so derivatives cannot be ...
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Barra covariance matrix construction
I am trying to replicate the covariance matrix used by Barra risk models.
All Barra models have half life parameters for volatilities and correlations (e.g. if the half life for volatlity is 90 days, ...
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Unit exposures to Country,Industry and World factors in Fundamental Factor Risk Models
I may have what can be called a rudimentary question about Fundamental Factor models for Risk (ala Barra).
Why is the exposure to World,Countries,Industries set to 1 instead of a real number. The ...
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Why is the expected value of bias statistic one?
I have been reading about factor models recently. One of the ways in which the developer of these models (Barra/ Axioma) measure the accuracy of their models is by calculating the bias statistic for ...
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CreditGrades model calibration and initial values
Currently doing a project on structural models, and I want to apply the CreditGrades model. My question is what values are the parameters going to take, in order to update the implied probability of ...
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Physical commodity trading quantitative risk return model
I am very new to commodities, I was previously in portfolio management/optimization (Black Litterman Markowitz etc). I am now a Buy-Sell analyst for Petrochemicals, and need to understand the basic ...
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Measuring interest rate sensitivity for illiquid private investments?
There seems to be surprisingly little literature on this topic. If you had a portfolio consisting of an unlisted illiquid private asset class (eg private real estate, direct infrastructure or private ...
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Can portfolio Value-at-Risk be calculated analytically for multivariate t-distributed returns?
It is widely known that VaR is generally not sub-additive in all but the most restrictive cases (typically when a Gaussian return distribution is assumed, which fails when it matters the most).
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How do energy companies measure the magnitude of the risks of buying energy at a variable price and selling it at a fixed price?
Power and gas retailers are exposed to a variety of risks when selling to domestic customers. Many of these risks arise from the fact that customers are offered a fixed price, while the retailer must ...
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Modelling Specialised Lending deals
This question by itself is less a quant question but it has impact on the quantitative model to use.
In 2006 CEBS gudilines we find a definition similar to this:
Specialised Lending (SP) is a sub-...
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Hierarchical Risk Parity with allocation constraints?
In the really interesting paper by Marcos Lopez de Prado a variation of risk parity is applied whereby the underlying assets of the portfolio are first split in 'correlation clusters' and the ...
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Correlation or r-squared to determine if a stock has specific movement relative to an index?
In Excel you have the daily prices of all the stocks in the S&P 500 for 3 years; and the index itself.
Using all the data how might you determine which stocks had company specific movement during ...
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It is possible to carry out the Component VaR decomposition through non parametric methodologies?
I would like to know if it is possible to break down the VaR risk (using historical and Monte Carlo methodology) among the portfolio assets just like the Component VaR concept in the parametric ...
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Altman Z-Score model for PD calculation [duplicate]
I am approaching you with one important for me question.
I have a task to calculate probability of default for our clients. I used an Altman Z-Score model to calculate the Z-Scores for each client.
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Derivative and Credit Risk Modelling
I am looking at acquiring a system to help with multi-instrument modelling. Across the spectrum Equity/FI/Swap/Repo/CDS/FxSwap/Forward/Future/etc for vanilla and more complex derivatives. The modeling ...
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How can I perform an analysis of risk exposures for an index?
I'm writing my bachelor thesis and the main goal of the paper is to answer the question: "are smart beta indexes efficient?" In order to answer this question would like to determine if those smart ...
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Calculating HIstorical VaR with short time series
Intuitively, Historical VAR is an approach which assumes that in the past data, we have observed everything that can happen, so we consider the worst case(tail). However, when your equity/instrument ...
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Decreasing dependence during the financial crisis?
In "Is the Potential for International Diversification Disappearing? A Dynamic
Copula Approach" by Christoffersen et al. (2012), the authors present the concept of Conditional Diversification Benefit ...
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Portfolio risk analysis in Options & Mixed portfolios
I am currently working on a risk analysis model that is primarily focused on options portfolios, but will likely be later expanded to cover mixed (options, stocks, bond, futures, etc...) portfolios. ...
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Trouble verifying roll rate model
I found this paper on roll rate analysis via a google search. I would post a link, but every page is stamped with "CONFIDENTIAL" at the bottom (humorous since it is easily found). In a nut-shell, ...
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Modelling callable bonds in a risk model (historical simulation)
What is a best-practice example on how to model callable bonds in a risk model - I focus on historical simulation (HS).
For plain-vanilla bonds the input factors for historical simulation could be
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Risk-neutral probabilities
I will use this theorem 3.2 from the book "Quantitative modeling of Derivative Securities" by Marco Avellandea:
Theorem 3.2 - Assume that there is no arbitrage, i.e. there exists a risk neutral ...
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credit risk - How to calculate the probability of default (private companies)?
Part of my master thesis I am working with a company. I have the project to use their financial database with all the financials data (7 years) of approximately 3’000 companies.
They have their own ...
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Want to understand the links and relationship between all the risk metrics?
For Example : if Risk weighted asset (RWA) increased or decreased this month, which other risk metrics could have influenced RWA to increase or decrease. Also in different situations like, upward ...
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The best way to generate market scenarios [closed]
What general approaches could you recommend for modeling spot rates(for different maturities) and forward rates?(eg for LIBOR)
I need to generate scenarios for term-structure of interest rates.
What ...
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How can I compare two mutual funds' performance with a sparse set of data?
I want to compare the performance of two mutual funds. The only data I have is annual returns for the past 7 years. So I have 7 observations for Fund 1 and 7 observations for Fund 2. In addition, I ...
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Is volatility for the next day forecastable? To any extent?
In a more general way: is there
1) a methodological approach to quantify the correctness of a model that produces a probability distribution for the, say, S&P 500 index return for the next ...
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Quantitative Real Estate Investment Finance
I'm wondering if there is an application of quantitative finance to real estate investment? Specifically I'm wondering about models for pricing small neighborhoods (or even single houses) that take ...
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Market risk calculation for Fixed income position
I have come across a somewhat strange formula (atleast to me) for Value at Risk calculation for a Bond position. This typical formula looks like below:
PnL = Beta * "Some industry Credit spread" * ...
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Create Markets Bubble Indicator
I am trying to replicate a Bubble Indicator described here.
The indicator is strictly based on calculating the regularity of price behavior to determine herding in multiple time frames. I tried the ...
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What are the different Credit Portfolio Management models and what are their advantages?
CreditMetrics, RiskMetrics(Algorithims), etc. are all different risk methodologies used by many banks. However, what are their advantages/disadvantages?
I would appreciate your replies!
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Actually benefiting from logistic regression to estimate probability of default
Does anyone know any events where using logistic regression to estimate probability of default has led to a bank, financial institution, government or anything really to benefit in practice?
I see a ...
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Getting Parameter of Translated Gamma Distribution from Monte Carlo
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(Edit) Main question: What do I do about a parameter whose suggested values range quite vastly?
(Edit) Backstory: I am given data of loss values and the dates that correspond to ...
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Compute moments of aggregate loss using Monte Carlo
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Richard referred to me an article that tells me how to get parameters of a translated gamma distribution to which I should consider fitting simulated aggregated loss values.
The ...
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Get distribution for aggregate loss using Monte Carlo
I am given two data sets containing dates and losses (in some currency).
Given a distribution for the amount of losses and an (a,b,0) distribution for frequency of losses, how can I use Monte Carlo ...
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How to get Multivariate Betas from an Estimated EWMA co variance Matrix?
I have a portfolio of 4 assets. I also have returns for 3 indices. I want to get the multivariate betas for these 4 assets-based on these assets. I only have the 7 x 7 covariance matrix estimated by a ...
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Longevity risk modelling
What is Longevity risk, and how to model it under DC and DB pension plans?
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Expected Shortfall and Spectral Risk Measure
Not sure I am understanding spectral risk measures correctly.
Why is there an equal weighting scheme placed on the tail losses in expected shortfall.
Will that no bias the expected value of the loss ...
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Why would there be a positive risk-free rate?
Most financial models include a risk-free rate or risk-free asset.
Why should there be such thing as a positive risk-free rate?
I dont see why an asset would provide a positive (real) return if it ...
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Estimate correlation of time series whose histories differ in length
Very often in quantitative analysis (e.g. calculating portfolio volatility) we have to analyze various time series - mostly returns - whose lenghts differ.
Risk systems usually apply a one-factor ...
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Math basics of Equally-weighted Risk contributions
i'm writing my BA Thesis about "Equally-weighted Risk contributions". Can anyone recommend math books for further understanding of Risk contributions?
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questions on VAR manipulation
The book of Financial Risk forecasting by Danielsson gives the following example about VAR manipulation. I have two questions:
1) If $0> VAR_1 > VAR_0$ , why the following figure plots it as $-...
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What does it mean if $\beta$ is insignificant in the CAPM model?
What can we say about an asset which $\beta$ calculated using the CAPM model (regressing the excess returns of the stock vs excess returns of the market) is insignificant?
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quantiative risk measure how they are implemented in R and their use
So far I have just theoretical knowledge of risk measure and never used them in application. Therefore I have some basic question how risk measures are used in reality and how they are implemented in ...
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How to compare different volatility measures?
I read the Euan Sinclair's book (Volatility trading) in which he suggests different volatility estimators (Close-to-close, Parkinson, Garman-Klass, ...).
I am inquiring about what is the best stock ...
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Minimum PD under Basel II retail asset?
I have been told that under Basel II the minimum PD that one can assign to any portfolio/segment classified under the retail asset class is 0.33%.
But Google searches return nothing and I can't seem ...
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What is the necessary level of Econometrics-Know-How for a quant
It seems quants increasingly use econometric models at work.
As someone who has sold his soul to probability theory and stochastical analysis I would like to catch up.
What are the econometric tools ...
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Portfolio risk decreased by increasing share of riskiest asset?
In Parker's The Economics of Entrepreneurship he explains how certain theoretical models predict seemingly bizzare things (e.g. people becoming more risk-averse resulting in them taking riskier jobs) ...
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Asynchronous Data Across Time Zones - RiskMetrics
I'm currently involved with a project to integrate RiskMetrics into our business and one issue we've identified is the treatment of market data timing across time zones. This can have the effect of ...
