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Cluster Analysis
Cluster Analysis helps risk managers in identifying different groups (clusters) in a given portfolio data.
Risk Management Process with Examples
Risk management includes the sequence of activities to reduce or eliminate an entity’s potential risk. Read below & understand with an example.
Put-Call Parity
Put-call parity allows investors and risk managers to calculate the price of either put or call if the value of anyone is already provided.
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Short Selling
Short selling is when an investor borrows a security and sells it on the open market, intending to repurchase it for a lower price later.
What is Securitization?
Securitization is the procedure where an issuer designs a marketable financial instrument by merging or pooling various financial assets.
Euler’s Theorem
The generalization of Fermat’s theorem is known as Euler’s theorem.
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Systemic Risk
Systemic risk refers to the potential risk of a collapse of the entire financial system due to one factor or a combination of factors
What is Idiosyncratic Risk?
Idiosyncratic risk refers to the inherent factors that can negatively impact individual securities or a very specific group of assets.
Autocorrelation
Autocorrelation is the measure calculated to find out that to which degree a variable is correlated to its past values.
What is Expected Value?
The Expected Value is the weighted average of the possible outcomes of a random variable, where the weights are the probabilities that the outcomes will occur.
What is a Forward Contract?
A forward contract is a non-standardised contract between two counterparties without the involvement of an exchange.
What is Standard Error?
The Standard deviation of the mean is known as a Standard Error.