Expected shortfall
Expectiles behave as expected
Expectiles' results are analogous to those of value-at-risk and expected shortfall
Replacing VAR: smaller banks fear expected shortfall workload
Some banks worry they may not have enough data to implement expected shortfall safely
Baskets will suffer in trading book regime, warns HSBC exec
Capital charges will be ‘very difficult to explain’, conference hears
Models could lose appeal under new trading book rules
Rise of standardised approach would be 'a loss for the banking industry'
Basel Committee drops fixed correlations in new trading book proposals
Banks relieved as revised trading book proposals drop plans for capital to be based on regulator-set correlations
Applied risk management series: Integrating stress tests with risk management
Stress testing is a vital part of successful risk management, but risk managers at energy trading firms frequently face obstacles in designing and implementing successful stress testing programmes. In this article, Carlos Blanco provides some advice on…
Mooted VAR substitute cannot be back-tested, says top quant
Basel Committee should stick with VAR, argues Paul Embrechts of ETH Zürich
The false promise of expected shortfall
The false promise of expected shortfall
ETF tracking error conundrum
Tracking error conundrum
Risk.net poll: Industry divided over plan to scrap VAR
Poll on Basel Committee proposal to ditch VAR attracts close to 1,000 votes - with a narrow victory for critics of the metric
JP Morgan’s ‘London whale’ losses spark VAR debate
In-house probe will look at role of internal model change, among other factors
Basel Committee proposes scrapping VAR
Review recommends switch to expected shortfall, postpones CVA charge overhaul, and retains split between banking and trading books
Quants weigh up VAR's flawed alternatives
VAR at risk
Beyond Basel 2.5: regulators prepare trading book review
Beyond Basel 2.5
Goodbye VAR? Basel to consider other risk metrics
Trading book review will look at replacing value-at-risk, but quants say the obvious alternative - expected shortfall - is not much better
Delayed Basel trading book review will be broad, say supervisors
Basel Committee is expected to consider wide range of topics, including VAR, liquidity, CVA and the line between banking and trading books - but overall capital requirements are not likely to change
An analytical framework for credit portfolio risk measures
An analytical framework for credit portfolio risk measures
Confidence in controlling risk measures
Insurers increasingly use stochastic simulation approaches for estimating risk capital, but numerical errors are rarely measured. A control variate method can improve the accuracy dramatically without increasing the number of simulations.