Concept Notes· Risk
Market Risk & VaR
Value-at-Risk summarises, in one number, the loss a portfolio could suffer at a given confidence level over a given horizon. It is a quantile of the profit-and-loss distribution, estimated parametrically, from history, or by simulation. Risk interviews test whether you can compute it, scale it across horizons, and say honestly what it does not tell you.
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