Questions tagged [value-at-risk]
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Portfolio optimization w.r.t. value at risk: introductory or survey references
I am looking for references introducing the problem of portfolio optimization when the target characteristic is value at risk. A textbook treatment would be great. Surveys on the topic are also ...
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Estimator for Conditional value at risk (average value at risk)
I am following a book: Advanced Stochastic Models, Risk Assessment, and Portfolio Optimization by Svetlozar T. Rachev, Stoyan V. Stoyanov, Frank J. Fabozzi
I'm learning about average value at risk. ...
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How to calculate value at risk in accordance with Basel?
I would greatly appreciate if you could let me know whether Value at Risk should be calculated for net open position (foreign currency assets-foreign currency liabilities) or for foreign currency cash?...
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Block maxima estimation of Expected Shortfall
I want to calculate the expected shortfall of a return series with the block maxima (BM, link) method in Extreme Value Theory, however I can't seem to find out how this should be done. All papers I'...
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understanding Value-at-Risk correclty
The are several types how to calculate the VaR. I am focussing on the method of calculation the VaR in percentage.
$VaR=I*z*std*\sqrt{t}$
This gives the VaR in €.
I have the z-value, the daily ...
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CVaR formulation
I am a research intern and I am working on a topic about a profit maximization of a risk-averse newsvendor by using Conditional Value-at-Risk.The problem is that I found different expressions of CVaR. ...
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From risk limits to pnl projection?
As a fresh risk manager, today I got an assignment to check whether our risk measurements / limits are setup properly (whether the limits are so tight that affect our p&l) . Better if I can ...
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Approximation of portfolio VaR (after mapping) when Delta and Gamma both equal zero
As titled, I am having trouble estimating the VaR of a portfolio mapped as a function of a single risk factor $S$, in the form :
$$V(S) = S^3 - 30S^2 + 300S + 150$$
with current value $S = 10$.
$S$...
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How to add Risks-Not-In-VaR (RNIV) to VaR under Basel III
I am trying to generate/prove the magnitude of the over-conservativeness of the regulatory VaR (internal models) under Basel III against what a more accurate VaR would be.
However, I can't seem to ...
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PCA on a portfolio of spot and forward contracts
I have a portfolio of spot and FX forwards on various currencies all based to AUD. I need to able to quantify how the changes in amount, tilt and curvature of the AUD curve would impact my p/l.
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How can I manually calculate the VAR of a call and put portfolio?
How would I solve the following question? Im unsure how to estimate the stock price using MCS.
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Historical Simulation of Bond, Stock and Option Portfolio
If I have a portfolio consisting of
1-one stock of unit price equal to S,
2-one 9% coupon American bond with 20 years to maturity and a par value of $1000,
3-and one European call option on the ...
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How to measure specific risk charge?
IFRS requires banks to compute different risks including market risk based on Basel iii.
To do so, the capital requirement is defined as follows:
$$max(VaR_{t−1},m_c × VaR_{avg}) + SRC$$
$SRC$ is ...
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Modified Sharpe ratio
I would like to model different type of investors, hence I need to find some kind of utility functions to optimize. Apart from very abstract exponential utility function, I couldn't find any proper ...
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Prove Subadditivity - Entropic Value at Risk
Any insight in how to prove the following risk measure is subadditive?
$\rho_{1-\alpha}(X) = \inf_{z>0}\{z^{-1}\ln(\frac{E[e^{zX}]}{\alpha})\}$, with $\alpha \in ]0,1]$
I want to prove it is a ...
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Opposite of Value-at-Risk. Criteria for Optimization
I'm trying to optimize portfolio of undervalued and portfolio of overvalued stocks. I have simulated scenarios of stock returns, and based on them I would like to find optimal weights. One criteria is ...
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Risk Measure-identication
Let X be a variable with existing moment generating function $M_x(z)=E[e^{zX}]$.
Define the following risk measure: $\rho_{\alpha}(X)=inf_{z>0}(z^{-1}ln(\frac{M_x(z)}{1-\alpha}))$
Does anyone know ...
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1 day VaR vs 10 day VaR
Even while using historical simulation VaR, 1 day VaR is converted into 10 day VaR by multiplying 1 day VaR by Sqrt(10) for regulatory reporting purposes.
What are the underlying assumptions for ...
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Compute the VaR from NPV (Net present value)? [closed]
A client is evaluating an investment in
Indochina requiring an initial expenditure (period 0) of 10,000, and
which then in periods 1 and 2 gives a benefit V1 and V2. Assume
that the discount rate to ...
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Value-at-Risk theory papers
I am looking for some papers related to the value-at-risk theory. I would like to focus on mathematical aspects of VaR. I would like to read something about modern approaches to VaR (maybe using ...
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Historical VaR for shares in foreign currency
I'm currently studying John Hull's [1] example on historical value at risk for portfolio consisting of four stock indices.
In this example Hull converts the prices of the stock indices to the home ...
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The VaR of a portfolio with Student t returns
A portfolio consists of 300 stocks,150 of A and 150 of B, their annualized covariance matrix is as following:
$\begin{pmatrix}
0.09 & 0.018\\
0.018 & 0.04
\end{pmatrix}$
Thoese two stocks ...
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Does it make sense to subtract VaR from spot shocks?
I have a model to compute the Event Risk (in dollars) from a shock to the spot price of an asset. I also have the 10-day VaR PnL for the same assets returns. These two numbers are then aggregated to ...
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Value-at-Risk for a portfolio model with Gearing
My models:
Say I want to construct a portfolio so I maximize my expected return while keeping my risk (measured by Value-at-Risk) lower than my risk target.
$$\max \sum x_i \mu_i \\
VaR_{0.05} \leq \...
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Methods for calculating Expected shortfall
Let B1, B2 be two defaultable zero-coupon bonds maturing in 1 year, each
with a face value of $100. Assume:
each bond is priced at 90 dollars
each bond has a 4% probability to default within 1 year
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How do I compute Value at Risk of a European call option?
Consider a European call option on a non-dividend paying stock, where the
option has strike K = 100 and expiry T = 0.25, i.e. the option expires 3
months from now. The option is on a single share. The ...
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VaR of ARCH model
Consider the following:
$r_t = \theta r_{t-1}+u_t$
$u_t=\sigma_t\epsilon_t$
$\sigma^2_t=\omega+\alpha u^2_{t-1}$
$-1<\theta<1,\omega>0,\alpha \in(0,1)$
What is the 99% 2-day VaR of a ...
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Value-at-risk and Equity delta
How to validate value-at-risk calculation on an equity portfolio using equity sensitivities? I don't have trouble doing that for rates instruments or options but I don't know which underlying risk ...
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Monte Carlo VAR with differente asset classes
I have found a very useful post regarding the use of Monte Carlo simulaton to obtain portfolio Value at risk, based on Cholesky decomposition, random variates, etc. This post I'm talking about is: Is ...
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Scenario generation for Value at risk: How to interpret the scenarios
This is a a simple and rather pratical approach and not theoretical. Let's assumes I have generated 250 scenarios for a given fixed portfolio. Hence we assume that the asset returns can result in 250 ...
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Computing Montecarlo VaR for a single asset
I'm trying to understand the procedure to compute the Value-at-Risk for a single asset by implementing the Montecarlo technique.
Here it follows the procedure step-by-step in 5 points:
selecting the ...
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Variance-Covariance VaR: how to get the volatility?
Because the variance-covariance VaR assumes that the returns are normally distributed, in theory it is easy to get VaR by simply finding the mean and the volatility (standard deviation) of the ...
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Delta-Gamma VaR question on inputs (do I need only one delta or the delta for the past 500 days?)
When calculating a VaR using the Delta-Gamma approach, I am supposed to use this formula:
∆(V) = Delta * ∆(X) + 0.5 * Gamma * ∆(X)²
where:
∆(V) = change in value of the asset in portfolio
∆(X) = ...
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Procedures to follow when VaR model fails backtest
I was wondering what the correct procedure is to follow when a VaR model fails a backtest (either conditional coverage and/or independence tests)?
Assuming I am restricted to using a historical VaR ...
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How to prove the following relation of Conditional Value-at-Risk and Value-at-Risk?
How to prove the following relation of Conditional Value-at-Risk $\text{CVaR}_{\alpha}(X)$ and Value-at-Risk $\text{VaR}_{\alpha}(X)$,
\begin{equation}
\text{CVaR}_{\alpha}(X) = \text{VaR}_{\alpha}(X)+...
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Pricing default risk in cryptos
I'm looking to figure out how to price "insurance" against a counter-party defaulting in an OTC cryptocurrency transaction. I think the first measure would be to calculate VaR? I'm planning on ...
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Value at Risk for normal r.v. with shock (regimes)
I am struggling to understand how was this simple Value-at-Risk calculated. It's Example 1 in Daníelsson, Jón, et al. "Fat tails, VaR and subadditivity." Journal of econometrics 172.2 (2013): 283-291 (...
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How to calculate $\frac{\partial\ \text{CVaR}_{\alpha}(\min(X,d))}{\partial d}$ and $\frac{\partial\ \text{VaR}_{\alpha}(\min(X,d))}{\partial d}$?
How to calculate $\frac{\partial\ \text{CVaR}_{\alpha}(\min(X,d))}{\partial d}$ and $\frac{\partial\ \text{VaR}_{\alpha}(\min(X,d))}{\partial d}$?
Here, $\text{CVaR}$ is short for Conditional Value-...
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How to compute a single Value-at-Risk (a single quantile) of portfolio returns taking into account correlation between individual returns?
Introduction
My goal is to retrieve a single Value-at-Risk (VaR) of a N(0, H) random variable $X$ at the $\alpha \in (0,1)$ confidence level where H is a known d-dimensional positive definite matrix ...
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Hedger's utility function associated with minimizing value at risk
What must be the general shape of a hedger's utility function if the hedger is minimizing value at risk?
What is a simple example of such a utility function?
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Does it make sense to simulate from the multidimensional GBM?
Suppose I have times series data on 3 assets and I do $N$ simulations (GBM) first for each of assets individually and then from a multidimensional GBM since their log-returns are correlated (I use ...
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Volatility scenario generation for value-at-risk
I have the following problem: For a single name plain vanilla equity option calculate 1y VaR for given confidence level.
Is there any state-of-the-art or current market practice known on how to ...
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Negative VaR equivalent Volatility (VEV) and its meaning?
Can a VaR equivalent Volatility (VEV) as defined by KID/PRIIPS law be negative and what does it mean if it has a negative value?
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What is the relationship of Value-at-Risk of a random variable $X$ and a constant $D$ $VaR_{\alpha}(min(X,D))$and $VaR_{\alpha}(X)$?
Suppose $X$ is a nonnegative random variable and $D$ is a constant, what is the relationship of $\text{VaR}_{\alpha}(min(X,D))$ and $VaR_{\alpha}(X)$? Here, $VaR$ stands for Value-at-Risk as,
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VaR_{\...
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Value at Risk for a plain vanilla interest rate swap
Hello I have question regarding the computations of the Value at Risk for a plain vanilla interest rate swap (i.e. same currency and fixed-for-floating).
I have a data set consisting of the Swap ...
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Value-at-Risk and dividend payments
How should dividends be considered when computing Value-at-Risk for a stock portfolio using Historic data.
To simplify let's consider a very simple portfolio of one long position on a stock. My VaR ...
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VaR of long options
I just had a chat with a risk manager who thinks that the daily VaR of a long option with a maturity under three months should be 'Premium of the Option' / 20 (assuming twenty days in a month)
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How can I find what Loss Given Default to use
I want to come up with the appropriate loss given default for a commodity derivative in my CVA calculation. would anyone know where I can find this information?
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What is the name of this VaR calculation strategy?
Here's a question on a passage from this paper I'm reading. Here's the quote:
Given the vector of portfolio weights $w$, and the estimate of the
conditional variance, $\Sigma_{t,k}$, the ...
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Risk Management methods for Stock portfolio with ~30 stocks
What is ideal Risk Management method/methods s for stock portfolios with 25-30 stocks and around 50.000 USD invested in those stocks. Every stock bought will be kept in the portfolio for 1 to 12 ...
