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Market Riskand Value at Risk
Finance 129
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Market Risk
Macroeconomic changes can createuncertainty in the earnings of the Financial
institutions trading portfolio.Important because of the increased emphasison income generated by the trading portfolio.
The trading portfolio (Very liquid i.e. equities,bonds, derivatives, foreign exchange) is notthe same as the investment portfolio (illiquidie loans, deposits, long term capital).
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Importance of Market RiskMeasurement
Management informationProvides info on the riskexposure taken by traders
Setting LimitsAllows management to limitpositions taken by traders
Resource AllocationIdentifying the risk and returncharacteristics of positions
Performance Evaluationtrader compensationdidhigh return just mean high risk?
RegulationMay be used in some cases todetermine capital requirements
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Measuring Market Risk
The impact of market risk is difficult tomeasure since it combines many sources of
risk.Intuitively all of the measures of risk can becombined into one number representing theaggregate risk
One way to measure this would be to use ameasure called the value at risk.
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Value at Risk
Value at Risk measures the market valuethat may be lost given a change in the
market (for example, a change in interestrates). that may occur with a correspondingprobability
We are going to apply this to look at marketrisk.
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A Simple Example
Position A Position BPayout Prob Payout Prob-100 0.04 -100 0.04
0 0.96 0 0.96VaR at 95%
confidence
level 0VaR at 95%
confidence
level 0From Dowd, Kevin 2002
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A second simple example
Assume you own a 10% coupon bond thatmakes semi annual payments with 5 years until
maturity with a YTM of 9%.The current value of the bond is then 1039.56
Assume that you believe that the most the yieldwill increase in the next day is .2%. The new
value of the bond is 1031.50
The differencewould represent the value atrisk.
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VAR
The value at risk therefore depends upon theprice volatility of the bond.
Where should the interest rate assumptioncome from?
historical evidence on the possible change ininterest rates.
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Calculating VaR
Three main methods
VarianceCovariance (parametric)
Historical
Monte Carlo SimulationAll measures rely on estimates of thedistribution of possible returns and the
correlation among different asset classes.
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Variance / Covariance Method
Assumes that returns are normallydistributed.
Using the characteristics of the normaldistribution it is possible to calculate thechance of a loss and probable size of the loss.
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This slide and the next few based in part on Jorion, 1997
Probability
Cardano 1565 and Pascal 1654
Pascal was asked to explain how to divide up
the winnings in a game of chance that wasinterrupted.
Developed the idea of a frequency distribution
of possible outcomes.
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An example
Assume that you are playing a game basedon the roll of two fair dice.
Each one has six possible sides that may landface up, each face has a separate number, 1to 6.
The total number of dice combinations is 36,the probability that any combination of thetwo dice occurs is 1/36
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Example continued
The total number shown on the dice rangesfrom 2 to 12. Therefore there are a total of
12 possible numbers that may occur as partof the 36 possible outcomes.
A frequency distribution summarizes thefrequency that any number occurs.
The probability that any number occurs isbased upon the frequency that a givennumber may occur.
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Establishing the distribution
Let x be the random variable underconsideration, in this case the total number
shown on the two dice following each role.The distribution establishes the frequencyeach possible outcome occurs and thereforethe probability that it will occur.
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Discrete Distribution
Value 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12(xi)
Freq 1 2 3 4 5 6 5 4 3 2 1(n i)
Prob 1 2 3 4 5 6 5 4 3 2 1
(pi
) 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36
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Cumulative Distribution
The cumulative distribution represents thesummation of the probabilities.
The number 2 occurs 1/36 of the time, thenumber 3 occurs 2/36 of the time.
Therefore a number equal to 3 or less will
occur 3/36 of the time.
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Cumulative Distribution
Value 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12Prob 1 2 3 4 5 6 5 4 3 2 1
(p i) 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36
Cdf 1 3 6 10 15 21 26 30 33 35 3636 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36
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Probability Distribution Function(pdf)
The probabilities form a pdf. The sum of theprobabilities must sum to 1.
The distribution can be characterized by twovariables, its mean and standard deviation
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Mean
The mean is simply the expected value fromrolling the dice, this is calculated by
multiplying the probabilities by the possibleoutcomes (values).
In this case it is also the value with thehighest frequency (mode)
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Standard Deviation
The variance of the random variable isdefined as:
The standard deviation is defined as the
square root of the variance.
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Using the example in VaR
Assume that the return on your assets isdetermined by the number which occursfollowing the roll of the dice.
If a 7 occurs, assume that the return for thatday is equal to 0. If the number is less than 7a loss of 10% occurs for each number less
than 7 (a 6 results in a 10% loss, a 5 resultsin a 20% loss etc.)
Similarly if the number is above 7 a gain of10% occurs.
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Discrete Distribution
Value 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12(xi)
Return -50% -40% -30% -20% -10% 0 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%(n i)
Prob 1 2 3 4 5 6 5 4 3 2 1(p i) 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36
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VaR
Assume you want to estimate the possibleloss that you might incur with a given
probability.Given the discrete dist, the most you mightlose is 50% of the value of your portfolio.
VaR combines this idea with a givenprobability.
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VaR
Assume that you want to know the largestloss that may occur in 95% of the rolls.
A 50% loss occurs 1/36 = 2.77% 0f the time.This implies that 1-.027 =.9722 or 97.22% ofthe rolls will not result in a loss of greaterthan 40%.
A 40% or greater loss occurs in 3/36=8.33%of rolls or 91.67% of the rolls will not resultin a loss greater than 30%
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Continuous time
The previous example assumed that therewere a set number of possible outcomes.
It is more likely to think of a continuous set ofpossible payoffs.
In this case let the probability density function
be represented by the function f(x)
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Discrete vs. Continuous
Previously we had the sum of the probabilitiesequal to 1. This is still the case, however thesummation is now represented as an integralfrom negative infinity to positive infinity.
Discrete Continuous
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Discrete vs. Continuous
The expected value of X is then found usingthe same principle as before, the sum of theproducts of X and the respective probabilities
Discrete Continuous
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Discrete vs. Continuous
The variance of X is then found using thesame principle as before.
Discrete Continuous
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Combining Random Variables
One of the keys to measuring market risk isthe ability to combine the impact of changes
in different variables into one measure, thevalue at risk.
First, lets look at a new random variable, thatis the transformation of the original randomvariable X.
Let Y=a+bX where a and b are fixedparameters.
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Linear Combination
The expected value of Y is then found usingthe same principle as before, the sum of theproducts of Y and the respective probabilities
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dxxyfYE )()(
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Linear Combinations
We can substitute since Y=a+bX, then simplify byrearranging
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Variance
Similarly the variance can be found
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Standard Deviation
Given the variance it is easy to see that the standarddeviation will be
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Combinations of RandomVariables
No let Y be the linear combination of two randomvariables X1and X2the probability density function(pdf) is now f(x1,x2)
The marginal distribution presents the distributionas based upon one variable for example.
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Expectations
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Variance
Similarly the variance can be reduced
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A special case
If the two random variables are independentthen the covariance will reduce to zero which
implies thatV(X1+X2) = V(X1)+V(X2)
However this is only the case if the variablesare independentimplying hat there is nogain from diversification of holding the twovariables.
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The Normal Distribution
For many populations of observations as thenumber of independent draws increases, thepopulation will converge to a smooth normal
distribution.
The normal distribution can be characterized by itsmean (the location) and variance (spread) N(m,s2).
The distribution function is
2
2 )(
2
1
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ms
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exf
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Standard Normal Distribution
The function can be calculated for variousvalues of mean and variance, however the
process is simplified by looking at a standardnormal distribution with mean of 0 andvariance of 1.
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Standard Normal Distribution
Standard Normal Distributions are symmetricaround the mean. The values of the
distribution are based off of the number ofstandard deviations from the mean.
One standard deviation from the meanproduces a confidence interval of roughly
68.26% of the observations.
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Prob Ranges for Normal Dist.
68.26%95.46%
99.74%
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An Example
Lets define X as a function of a standard normalvariable e (in other words e is N(0,1))
X= m es
We showed earlier that
Therefore
)()( XbEabXaE
mesmsem )()( EE
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Variance
We showed that the variance was equal to
Therefore
22 )()( sessem VV
)()( 2
XVbbXaV
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An Example
Assume that we know that the movements inan exchange rate are normally distributed
with mean of 1% and volatility of 12%.Given that approximately 95% of thedistribution is within 2 standard deviations ofthe mean it is easy to approximate the
highest and lowest return with 95%confidence
XMIN= 1% - 2(12%) = -23%
XMAX= 1% + 2(12%) = +25%
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One sided values
Similarly you can find the standard deviationthat represents a one sided distribution.
Given that 95.46% of the distribution liesbetween -2 and +2 standard deviations of themean, it implies that (100% - 95.46)/2 =2.27% of the distribution is in each tail.
This shows that 95.46% + 2.27% = 97.73%of the distribution is to the right of this point.
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VaR
Given the last slide it is easy to see that youwould be 97.73% confident that the loss
would not exceed -23%.
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VAR A second example
Assume that the mean yield change on a bondwas zero basis points and that the standard
deviation of the change was 10 Bp or 0.001Given that 90% of the area under the normaldistribution is within 1.65 standard deviations
on either side of the mean (in other words
between mean-1.65sand mean +1.65s)
There is only a 5% chance that the level ofinterest rates would increase or decrease by
more than 0 + 1.65(0.001) or 16.5 Bp
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Price change associated with16.5Bp change.
You could directly calculate the price change,by changing the yield to maturity by 16.5 Bp.
Given the duration of the bond you also couldcalculate an estimate based upon duration.
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Example 2
Assume we own seven year zero couponbonds with a face value of $1,631,483.00
with a yield of 7.243%Todays Market Value
$1,631,483/(1.07243)7=$1,000,000
If rates increase to 7.408 the market value is$1,631,483/(1.07408)7= $989,295.75
Which is a value decrease of $10,704.25
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Approximations - Duration
The duration of the bond would be 7 since itis a zero coupon.
Modified duration is then 7/1.07143 = 6.527The price change would then be
1,000,000(-6.57)(.00165) = $10,769.55
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Approximations - linear
Sometimes it is also estimated by figuring thethe change in price per basis point.
If rates increase by one basis point to 7.253%the value of the bond is $999,347.23 or aprice decrease of $652.77.
This is a 652.77/1,000,000 = .06528%
change in the price of the bond per basispoint
The value at risk is then
1,000,000(.00065277)(16.5) = $10,770.71
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Precision
The actual calculation of the change shouldbe accomplished by discounting the value of
the bond across the zero coupon yield curve.In our example we only had one cash flow.
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DEAR
Since we assumed that the yield change wasassociated with a daily movement in rates, wehave calculated a daily measure of risk for the
bond.DEAR = Daily Earnings at Risk
DEAR is often estimated using our linear
measure:(market value)(price sensitivity)(change in yield)
Or
(Market value)(Price Volatility)
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VAR
Given the DEAR you can calculate the Valueat Risk for a given time frame.
VAR = DEAR(N)0.5
Where N = number of days
(Assumes constant daily variance and noautocorrelation in shocks)
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N
Bank for International Settlements (BIS) 1998market risk capital requirements are based on
a 10 day holding period.
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Problems with estimation
Fat TailsMany securities have returns thatare not normally distributed, they have fat
tails This will cause an underestimation ofthe risk when a normal distribution is used.
Do recent market events change thedistribution? Risk Metrics weights recent
observations higher when calculatingstandard Dev.
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Interest Rate Risk vs.Market Risk
Market risk is more broad, but Interest RateRisk is a component of Market Risk.
Market risk should include the interaction ofother economic variables such as exchangerates.
Therefore, we need to think about thepossibility of an adverse event in theexchange rate market and equity marketsetc.. Not just a change in interest rates..
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DEAR of a foreign Exchange Position
Assume the firm has Swf 1.6 Million tradingposition in swiss francs
Assume that the current exchange rate isSwf1.60 / $1 or $.0625 / Swf
The $ value of the francs is then
Swf1.6 million ($0.0625/Swf) =$1,000,000
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FX DEAR
Given a standard deviation in the exchangerate of 56.5Bp and the assumption of a
normal distribution it is easy to find the DEAR.We want to look at an adverse outcome thatwill not occur more than 5% of the time soagain we can look at 1.65s
FX volatility is then 1.65(56.5bp) = 93.2bp or0.932%
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FX DEAR
DEAR = (Dollar value )( FX volatility)
=($1,000,000)(.00932)
=$9,320
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Equity DEAR
The return on equities can be split intosystematic and unsystematic risk.
We know that the unsystematic risk can bediversified away.
The undiversifiable market risk will equal bebased on the beta of the individual stock
22
mis
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Equity DEAR
If the portfolio of assets has a beta of 1 thenthe market risk of the portfolio will also have
a beta of 1 and the standard deviation of theportfolio can be estimated by the standarddeviation of the market.
Let sm= 2% then using the same confidence
interval, the volatility of the market will be
1.65(2%) = 3.3%
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Equity DEAR
DEAR = (Dollar value )( Equity volatility)
=($1,000,000)(0.033)=$33,000
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VAR and Market Risk
The market risk should then estimate thepossible change from all three of the assetclasses.
This DOES NOT just equal the summation ofthe three estimates of DEAR because thecovariance of the returns on the differentassets must be accounted for.
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Aggregation
The aggregation of the DEAR for the threeassets can be thought of as the aggregationof three standard deviations.
To aggregate we need to consider thecovariance among the different asset classes.
Consider the Bond, FX position and Equitythat we have recently calculated.
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Variance Covariance
Seven Yearzero
Swf/$1US StockIndex
Seven YearZero
1 -.20 .4
Swf/$1 1 .1
US StockIndex
1
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variance covariance
2
1
USz,
USSwf,
Swfz,
2
US
2
Swf
2
Z
)2(
)2(
)2()(DEAR)(DEAR)(DEAR
Portfolio
DEAR
USZ
USSwf
SwfZ
DEARDEAR
DEARDEAR
DEARDEAR
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VAR for Portfolio
969,39$
)33)(77.10)(4)(.2(
)33)(32.9)(1)(.2(
)32.9)(77.10)(2.(2(
)(33)(9.32)(10.77
Portfolio
DEAR
2
1222
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Comparison
If the simple aggregation of the threepositions occurred then the DEAR would havebeen estimated to be $53,090. It is easy toshow that the if all three assets were perfectlycorrelated (so that each of their correlationcoefficients was 1 with the other assets) you
would calculate a loss of $52,090.
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Risk Metrics
JP Morgan has the premier service forcalculating the value at risk
They currently cover the daily updating andproduction of over 450 volatility andcorrelation estimates that can be used incalculating VAR.
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Normal Distribution Assumption
Risk Metrics is based on the assumption thatall asset returns are normally distributed.
This is not a valid assumption for many asstsfor example call optionsthe most aninvestor can loose is the price of the calloption. The upside is large, this implies a
large positive skew.
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Normal Assumption Illustration
Assume that a financial institution has a largenumber of individual loans. Each loan can bethought of as a binomial distribution, the loaneither repays in full or there is default.
The sum of a large number of binomialdistributions converges to a normal
distribution assuming that the binomial areindependent.
Therefore the portfolio of loans could b
thought of as a normal distribution.
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Normal Illustration continued
However, it is unlikely that the loans are trulyindependent. In a recession it is more likelythat many defaults will occur.
This invalidates the normal distributionassumption.
The alternative to the assumption is to use ahistorical back simulation.
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Back Simulation
Step 1: Measure exposures. Calculate thetotal $ valued exposure to each assets
Step 2: Measure sensitivity. Measure thesensitivity of each asset to a 1% change ineach of the other assets. This number is thedelta.
Step 3: Measure Risk. Look at the annual %change of each asset for the past day andfigure out the change in aggregate exposure
that day.
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Back Simulation
Step 4 Repeat step 3 using historical data foreach of the assets for the last 500 days
Step 5 Rank the days from worst to best.Then decide on a confidence level. If youwant a 5% probability look at the return with95% of the returns better and 5% of the
return worse.Step 6 calculate the VAR
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Historical Simulation
Provides a worst case scenario, where Riskmetrics the worst case is a loss of negativeinfinity
Problems:
The 500 observations is a limited amount, thusthere is a low degree of confidence that it
actually represents a 5% probability. Shouldwe change the number of days??
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Monte Carlo Approach
Calculate the historical variance covariancematrix.
Use the matrix with random draws to simulate10,000 possible scenarios for each asset.
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BIS Standardized Framework
Bank of International Settlements proposed astructured framework to measure the marketrisk of its member banks and the offsettingcapital required to manage the risk.
Two options
Standardized Framework (reviewed below)
Firm Specific Internal Framework
Must be approved by BIS
Subject to audits
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Risk Charges
Each asset is given a specific risk chargewhich represents the risk of the asset
For example US treasury bills have a riskweight of 0 while junk and would have a riskweight of 8%.
Multiplying the value of the outstandingposition by the risk charges provides capitalrisk charge for each asset.
Summing provides a total risk charge
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Specific Risk Charges
Specific Risk charges are intended to measurethe risk of a decline in liquidity or credit riskof the trading portfolio.
Using these produces a specific capitalrequirement for each asset.
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General Market Risk Charges
Reflect the product of the modified durationand expected interest rate shocks for eachmaturity
Remember this is across different types ofassets with the same maturity.
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Vertical Offsets
Since each position has both long and shortpositions for different assets, it is assumedthat they do not perfectly offset each other.
In other words a 10 year T-Bond and a highyield bond with a 10 year maturity.
To counter act this the is a vertical offset ordisallowance factor.
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Horizontal Offsets
Within Zones
For each maturity bucket there are
differences in maturity creating again theinability to let short and long positions exactlyoffset each other.
Between Zones
Also across zones the short an long positionsmust be offset.
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VaR Problems
Artzner (1997), (1999) has shown that VaR isnot a coherent measure of risk.
For Example it does not posses the propertyof subadditvity. In other words the combined
portfolio VaR of two positions can be greaterthan the sum of the individual VaRs
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A Simple Example*
Assume a financial institution is facing thefollowing three possible scenarios andassociated losses
Scenario Probability Loss1 .97 02 .015 100
3 .015 0
The VaR at the 98% level would equal = 0
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A Simple Example
Assume you the previous financial institution and itscompetitor facing the same three possible scenarios
Scenario Probability Loss A Loss B Loss A & B
1 .97 0 0 02 .015 100 0 1003 .015 0 100 100
The VaR at the 98% level for A or B alone is 0The Sum of the individual VaRs = VaRA+ VaRB= 0
The VaR at the 98% level for A and B combinedVaR(A+B)=100
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Coherence of risk measures
Let (X) and (Y) be measures of riskassociated with event X and event Yrespectively
Subadditvity implies (X+Y) < (X) + (Y).
Monotonicity. Implies X>Y then (X) >(Y).
Positive homogeneity:Given l > 0 (lX) =
l(X).Translation Invariance. Given an additionalconstant amount of loss a, (X+a) = (X)+a.
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Coherent Measures of Risk
Artzner (1997, 1999) Acerbi and Tasche(2001a,2001b), Yamai and Yoshiba (2001a,2001b) have pointed to Conditional Value at Risk
or Tail Value at Risk as coherent measures.
CVaR and TVaR measure the expected lossconditioned upon the loss being above the VaR
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Tail VaR*
TVaRa(X) = Average of the top (1-a)% loss
For comparison let VaRa(X) = the (1-a)% loss
* Meyers 2002 The Actuarial Review
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Scenario X1 X2 X1+X2
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Normal Distribution
How important is the assumption thateverything is normally distributed?
It depends on how and why a distributiondiffers from the normal distribution.
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S&P 500 Monthly Returns vs. Normal Dist
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Two explanations of Fat Tails
The true distribution is stationary andcontains fat tails.
In this case normal distribution would beinappropriate
The distribution does change through time.
Large or small observations are outliers drawnfrom a distribution that is temporarily out ofalignment.
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Implications
Both explanations have some truth, it isimportant to estimate variations from theunderlying assumed distribution.
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Measuring Volatilities
Given that the normality assumption is centralto the measurement of the volatility andcovariance estimates, it is possible to attemptto adjust for differences from normality.
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Moving Average
One solution is to calculate the moving average ofthe volatility
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Moving Averages
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Historical Simulation
Another approach is to take the daily pricereturns and sort them in order of highest tolowest.
The volatility is then found based off of aconfidence interval.
Ignores the normality assumption! But
causes issues surrounding window ofobservations.
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Nonconstant Volatilities
So far we have assumed that volatility isconstant over time however this may not bethe case.
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RiskMetrics
JP Morgan uses an Exponentially WeightedMoving Average.
This method used a decay factor thatweights each days percentage price change.
A simple version of this would be to weight bythe period in which the observation took
place.
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Decay Factors
JP Morgan uses a decay factor of .94 for dailyvolatility estimates and .97 for monthlyvolatility estimates
The choice of .94 for daily observationsemphasizes that they are focused on veryrecent observations.
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Decay Factors
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Measuring Correlation
Covariance:
Combines the relationship between the stocks
with the volatility.(+) the stocks move together
(-) The stocks move opposite of each other
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Measuring Correlation 2
Correlation coefficient: The covariance isdifficult to compare when looking at different
series. Therefore the correlation coefficient isused.
The correlation coefficient will range from
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Timing Errors
To get a meaningful correlation the pricechanges of the two assets should be taken atthe exact same time.
This becomes more difficult with a highernumber of assets that are tracked.
With two assets it is fairly easy to look at a
scatter plot of the assets returns to see if thecorrelations look normal
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Size of portfolio
Many institutions do not consider it practicalto calculate the correlation between each pairof assets.
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Correlations continued
The combination of 12 maturities and 15currencies would produce 15 x 12 = 180separate movements of interest rates that
should be investigated.
Since for each one the correlation with eachof the others should be considered, this would
imply 180 x 180 = 16,110 separatecorrelations that would need to bemaintained.
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Reducing the work
One possible solution to this would bereducing the number of necessarycorrelations by looking at the mid point of
each yield curve.
This works IF
There is not extensive cross asset trading
(hedging with similar assets for example)There is limited spread trading (long in oneassert and short in another to take advantageof changes in the spread)
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A compromise
Most VaR can be accomplished by developinga hierarchy of correlations based on theamount of each type of trading. It also will
depend upon the aggregation in the portfoliounder consideration. As the aggregationincreases, fewer correlations are necessary.
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Back Testing
To look at the performance of a VaR model,can be investigated by back testing.
Back testing is simply looking at the loss on aportfolio compared to the previous days VaRestimate.
Over time the number of days that the VaR
was exceed by the loss should be roughlysimilar to the amount specified by theconfidence in the model
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Basle Accords
To use VaR to measure risk the Basle accordsspecify that banks wishing to use VaR mustundertake two different types of back testing.
Hypotheticalfreeze the portfolio and testthe performance of the VaR model over aperiod of time
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Back Testing Continued
Assume that we look at a 1000 day windowof previous results. A 95% confidenceinterval implies that the VaR level should have
been exceed 50 times.
Should the model be rejected if the it is foundthat the VaR level was exceeded 55 times?
70 times? 100 times?
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Back test results
Whether or not the actual number ofexceptions differs significantly from theexpectation can be tested using the Z score
for a binomial distribution.
Type I errorthe model has beenerroneously rejected
Type II errorthe model has beenerroneously accepted.
Basle specifies a type one error test.
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One tail versus two tail
Basle does not care if the VaR modeloverestimates the amount of loss and thenumber of exceptions is low ( implies a one
tail test)The bank, however, does care if the numberof exceptions is low and it is keeping toomuch capital (implies a two tail test).
Excess Capital
Trading performance based upon economiccapital
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Approximations
Given a two tail 95% confidence test and 1000days of back testing the bank would accept 39to 61 days that the loss exceeded the VaR
level.
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(B t 1998)
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Whether or not the lack of normality is not aproblem was discussed by Best 1998(Implementing VaR)
Five years of daily price movements for 15assets from Jan 1992 to Dec 1996. Thesample process deliberately chose assets that
may be non normal.VaR Was calculated for each asset individuallyand for the entire group as a portfolio.
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(Best 1998)
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All Assets have fatter tails than expectedunder a normal distribution.
Japanese 3-5 year bonds show significantnegative skew
The 1 year LIBOR sterling rate shows nothingclose to normal behavior
Basic model work about as well as moreadvanced mathematical models
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Requires that the VaR model must calculateVaR with a 99% confidence and be testedover at least 250 days.
Table 4.6
Low observation periods perform poorly whilehigh observation periods do much better.
Clusters of returns cause problem for theability of short term models to perform, thisassumes that the data has a longer memory
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The Basle requirements supplement VaR byRequiring that the bank originally hold 3 timesthe amount specified by the VaR model.
This is the product of a desire to producesafety and soundness in the industry
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Stress Testing is basically a large scenarioanalysis. The difficulty is identifying theappropriate scenarios.
The key is to identify variables that wouldprovide a significant loss in excess of the VaRlevel and investigate the probability of those
events occurring.
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Some events are difficult to predict, forexample, terrorism, natural disasters, politicalchanges in foreign economies.
In these cases it is best to look at similar pastevents and see the impact on various assets.
Stress testing does allow for estimates of
losses above the VaR level.You can also look for the impact of clusters ofreturns using stress testing.
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The most straightforward approach is to lookat changes in returns.
For example what is the largest loss thatoccurred for an asset over the past 100 days(or 250 days or)
This can be combined with similar outcomes
for other assets to produce a worst casescenario result.
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Monte Carlo simulation can also be employedto look at the possible bad outcomes basedon past volatility and correlation.
The key is that changes in price and returnthat are greater than those implied by a threestandard deviation change need to beinvestigated.
Using simulation it is also possible to ask whathappens it correlations change, or volatilitychanges of a given asset or assets.
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The Institution must first determine itstolerance for risk.
This can be expressed as a monetary amountor as a percentage of an assets value.
Ultimately VaR expresses an monetaryamount of loss that the institution is willing to
suffer and a given frequency determined bythe timing confidence level..
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The tolerance for loss most likely increaseswith the time frame. The institution may bewilling to suffer a greater loss one time each
year (or each 2 years or 5 years), but that isdifferent than one day VaR.
For Example, given a 95% confidence level
and 100 trading days, the one day VaR wouldoccur approximately once a month.
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The VaR and tolerance for risk can be used toset limits that keep the institution in anacceptable risk position.
Limits need to balance the ability of thetraders to conduct business and the risktolerance of the institution. Some risk needs
to be accepted for the return to be earned.
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Setting limits at the trading unit level
Allows trading management to balance thelimit across traders and trading activities.
Requires management to be experts in thecalculation of VaR and its relationship withtrading practices.
Limits for individual tradersVaR is not familiar to most traders (they d onot work with it daily and may not understandhow different choices impact VaR.
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One objection of many traders is that achange in the volatility (especially if it iscalculated based on moving averages) can
cause a change in VaR on a given position.Therefore they can be penalized for a positioneven if they have not made any trading
decisions.Is the objection a valid reason to not use
VaR?
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Similar to VaR limits should be set on theacceptable loss according to stress limittesting (and its associated probability).