var-mapping

Hi, I didn't understand the calculation of total proceeds. Question: A U. S. exporter anticipates receiving 1 million British pounds in 3 months. This is hedged with a short position in BP futures expiring in 6 months. The initial spot and futures prices are $1.5000 and $1.4703. At the time...

In this video, we walk through an actual case study of Value at Risk (VaR) mapping, specifically as it is illustrated by Phillip Jorion in Chapter 11 of his book, Value at Risk. We will take a two-bond fixed income portfolio. It's going to have a value of 200 million, and we're going to look at...

Hi, I'm at a loss as to how diversified VaR is computed whe mapping linear derivatives. Undiviersified VaR is easy enough: sum(pv of cash flows x risk). On page 67 of the official materials it says pre and post multiply by the pv of cashflows to get diversified var. But I don't get what it...

Hi @David Harper CFA FRM , I have questions regarding Jorion chapter 11, VaR mapping notes. Pages 23 of the notes onwards show excel tables, without formulas behind many calculations. I was trying to figure out what is going on, but it is both difficult and time consuming. Could you please...