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 […]

A New Approach to Optimize Hedging We recently released a Whitepaper with a New Approach to Optimize Hedging Costs. While this framework can be applied to any industry, we’ve demonstrated its utility specifically for Oil Refining Companies. The results from the framework are encouraging to an extent that it seems well worth exploring further – […]

Commodity Risk Management beyond VaR First, the bad news – Value at Risk (VaR) of a position / portfolio just gives the maximum loss you can have, with a certain confidence. But it doesn’t tell you what your position / portfolio could lose beyond that confidence. If you are the one managing risks in your […]