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Value-at-Risk is a family of measures used to help the owner of a position to assess its "worst case value".

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Value-at-Risk "hiding risk in the tail" and diversification?

As you and @Malick noted, VaR only gives a certain threshold given a certain confidence but says nothing about what happens beyond that point (tail risk). For loss distributions with long tails, this …
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