2012 June

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June 5th, 2012

The earlier reported loss of $2bn at JP Morgan has reignited the debate “What use VAR?” VAR you will recall is a statistical technique that tells banks how much they can lose for a given holding period for a given confidence interval. The confidence interval however never reaches 100%. Sometimes the loss is so much […]

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