VaR: The concept

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2006 “Value at Risk & Economic Capital”) He goes on to state the VaR has become the standard for measuring market risk, risk comparability and aggregation across assets and activities, risk reporting and capital adequacy and allocation. But to understand VaR you must first understand risk. Risk can be understood in many different ways...
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Risk can be understood in many different ways. The lecture notes for MAF 303 has one definition as “the probability that an actual outcome of a future event may be different to the expected outcome. Christian Walter had risk as the standard deviation of an assets return. 2.2 Measuring VaR: Modelling Changes in Risk Factors In order to measure VaR, financial insitutions use models to estimate the sensitivity of portfolio components to small price changes...
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