Financial Risk Manager Part 1

Financial Risk Manager Part 1

Get started today

Ultimate access to all questions.


A financial institution aims to integrate stressed Value at Risk (VaR) into its market risk assessment metrics. To facilitate this process, a risk management professional within the organization is analyzing the differences between stressed VaR and traditional VaR. This analysis includes examining appropriate data sets, selecting relevant time frames, and considering underlying statistical distributions. What is a key characteristic of stressed VaR that differentiates it from traditional VaR?