A New “Definitive” model for Risk Risk Edge has recently released its latest Whitepaper on Back-testing Expected Shortfall. The paper presents a New “Definitive” Model for Risk Management and answers several long-standing questions about managing Risks: Why use VaR when it doesn’t give clarity of extreme losses? Can we use Expected Shortfall (ES) to give […]

Whitepaper – Historical vs Implied Volatility We’ve just released our latest Whitepaper – Historical vs Implied Volatility: Which one to use for Computing VaR? The Whitepaper tackles one of the oft-pondered questions in the Risk Manager’s circles – should they use Historical Volatility or use Implied Volatility for calculating VaR. There are generally good arguments […]

Chapter 8 – Get Deeper Insights Here is Chapter 8 from our very well-received, 32-page E-Book –Benefiting from VaR – Quick Guidelines for Commodity Risk Practitioners. A quick recap for those who’ve read and enjoyed it, and for those who haven’t yet read it, you can download it now from here ! The E-Book is written for Commodity […]

Handbook for Risk Requirements & More… Over the last few weeks, we’ve released a new Whitepaper, initiated a “Knowledge Series” of Articles on Commodity Risk Management. Both have received pretty good responses so far. A lot of people have written to us appreciating the publications on Commodity Risk Management, and buoyed by this response we’ve […]

Chapter 2 – Set Risk Limits This post is actually Chapter 2 (of 8) from our very well-received, 32-page E-Book –Benefiting from VaR – Quick Guidelines for Commodity Risk Practitioners. A quick recap for those who’ve read and enjoyed it, and for those who haven’t yet read it, you can download it now from here […]