问题如下:
A trading book consists of the following two assets, with correlation of 0.2.
How would the daily VAR at the 99% level change if the bank sells $50 worth of A and buys $50 worth of B? Assume a normal distribution and 250 trading days.
选项:
A.0.2286
B.0.4571
C.0.7705
D.0.7798
解释:
We compute first the variance of the current portfolio. This is VAR is then The new portfolio has positions of $50 and $100, respectively. The variance is VAR is then 3.769 and the difference is -0.457. The new VAR is lower because of the greater weight on asset B, which has lower volatility. Also note that the expected return is irrelevant.
这道题计算组和方差的时候的权重我很疑惑。。。。卖出50的A和买入50的B,那新组合不就变成了50的A和100的B,为啥组合里面a和b的权重是0.25???而且这里面为什么要计算daily 标准差的变化啊。。。