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Backtesting Risk Methodologies from One Day to One Year
Jan 1, 2010
Market risk evaluation is nowadays routinely used, but surprisingly the performances of the various existing methodologies are poorly known. In this paper, we present a systematic backtesting study using 233 time series covering all geographic areas and asset classes, for time horizons ranging from one day to one year. The testing framework uses the probtiles and the relative exceedance fraction in order to compute convenient performance figures. The risk methodologies include historical simulation, equal-weight, and RiskMetrics exponential moving average. Another methodology is new and has been designed specifically to deal with long risk horizons, up to one year. In particular, it correctly captures the long memory of the volatility dynamics as well as the fat-tailed distributions of the residuals. The results show that the new methodology systematically outperforms the existing ones at all risk horizons.
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