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When it comes to managing a portfolio with hundreds of millions or billions of dollars, it’s important to have a firm handle on risk. Specifically, fund managers need to calculate the Value at Risk ...

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In this paper, the authors solve the problem of static portfolio allocation based on historical Value at Risk (VaR) by using Genetic Algorithm (GA). VaR is a predominantly used measure of risk of ...

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has launched enhancements to its Value at Risk (VaR) calculator, adding cross-margining and repo transaction functionalities. The updated risk tools ...

VaR – a fantastically complex mathematical model for measuring the risk in various portfolios - has received some bad press of late. Many have argued that the recent financial crisis was ultimately a ...