A fund manager owns a portfolio of options on TUV, a non-dividend paying stock. The portfolio is made up of 5,000 deep in-the-money call options on TUV and 20,000 deep out-of-the-money call options on TUV. The portfolio also contains 10,000 forward contracts on TUV. Currently, TUV is trading at USD 52. Assuming 252 trading days in a year, the volatility of TUV is 12% per year, and that each of the option and forward contracts is on one share of TUV, which of the following amounts would be closest to the 1-day 99% VaR of the portfolio?
Assuming a loan portfolio of L, a recovery rate of RR, and the percentage of losses on a portfolio less than V(T, X), which of the following formulas is used to estimate credit VaR?
The Merton model is different from Moody’s-KMV Expected Default Frequency approach in two key areas. Which of the following statements refers to one of those differences?