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by HFRisk
October 24th, 2006, 8:34 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Open Letter to the Home Secretary
Replies: 12
Views: 90303

Open Letter to the Home Secretary

<t>I'm sure John Reid has infinite time to trawl message boards searching for your hugely insightful contribution. Perhaps if you directed your letter to him and not to a finance message board you might have more success.If the number of Muslim Youths in Prison is on the increase it could be because...
by HFRisk
May 11th, 2006, 11:38 am
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: In Need of Advice
Replies: 4
Views: 106188

In Need of Advice

Go in person Telephone interviews are difficult and if you have the option of doing it face to face I would.
by HFRisk
May 10th, 2006, 1:50 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Measuring VAR
Replies: 9
Views: 107470

Measuring VAR

Plenty of my former bosses appeared to know nothing about VaR or Risk Management.... just played golf at the right clubs.
by HFRisk
May 10th, 2006, 8:49 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Measuring VAR
Replies: 9
Views: 107470

Measuring VAR

<t>As scary as this sounds, I know a numbr of places still use Excel Sheets for HSim based on Delta/Gamma Approximation for reasonably large books.Agree with what was said earlier MC in Excel would work but I really wouldn't want to rely on it. If they are so risk averse why are they entering a mark...