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Measuring and managing market, credit and Op risk [26]

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Bullet points include: Estimate appropriate parametric loss distribution and set VaR equal to (1-alpha)-quantile E.g. multi-variate Normal (i.e. Gaussian) benchmark case Time series of, say, daily returns (/losses) on the portfolio, might assume i.i.d. Normal VaR then estimated from the relevant (1-alpha)- quantile, i.e. (where N-1(x) is inverse Normal distribution):

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