money managers

Evaluating Value-at-Risk Models with Desk-Level Data

In the financial services industry, a primary concern of money managers is the on-going level of risk in their portfolios. This paper presents new evidence on disaggregated profit and loss (P/L) and Value-at-Risk (VaR) forecasts obtained from a large international commercial bank. Our dataset includes the actual daily P/L generated ...

Category : Finance Papers
Management as Profession

Repeated and, as of this writing, ongoing revelations of corporate wrongdoing over the past two years have eroded public trust in business institutions and executives to levels not seen in decades. A recent Gallup poll indicates that Americans now have no more trust in business leaders than they do in ...