Risk Management
2007-2008
Introduction
Risk management has to determine what risks exist in an investment and handle the risks in good investment objectives.
Risk management is very important in Finance. In this assignment, we will understand in a first part the basic measures of the risk management. Then we will have more interest of the implementation of the Value at Risk. In the environment of Hedge Fund, we have to develop the risk factors. And finally, in order to manage a trading book, we will describe the limit structure and the tools to use in order to measure the risk.
1. Describe the advantages and disadvantages for each of the following risk measures:
a. DV01
Definition: DV01, also called dollar value of a 1 basis point move, is a measure showing the dollar value of a one basis point decrease in interest rates.
It shows the change in a bond's price compared to a decrease in the bond's yield.
It is also the reference for the Basic Point Value,......
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