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Correlation, co-dependency and risk aggregation [9]

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Bullet points include: Individual instrument. Behaviour may arise from combination of lots of small independent contributions. Doubtful in practice. E.g. credit defaults, one-off frauds. Portfolio/market-wide: Behaviour may arise from combination of lots of independent exposures. Applies even if each is non-Normal. But again usually market-wide factors

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