Essentials Of Investments
Essentials Of Investments
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Author: Bodie, Zvi, Kane, Alex, MARCUS, Alan J.
Publisher: Mcgraw-hill Education,
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Chapter 5, Problem 1PS
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To determine:

The value at Risk of the portfolio at first percentile

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Value at Risk of the portfolio measures the lowest risk of the portfolio. It helps to understand how much would the investor loses in a portfolio. This can be determined through probability of the investment for a particular period of time.

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It can be concluded that if the 5th percentile of the Value at risk is 30% , this would mean that Value at risk at the first percentile would definitely be less. It would be less than 30% , therefore it could be 45% .

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5th Percentile of Value at risk (Value at risk) means that the return should happen less than 5% of the time or less. That means 1 percentile Value at risk would be a return that should happen less than 1% of the time.

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