September 10th, 2005, 3:57 am
We have the following question and hope to seek your advice. Thanks in advance.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------We want to calculate the VaR of a portfolio containing- USA Treasury Bonds- USD Interest Rate Derivatives- German Treasury Bonds- Greece Treasury Bonds- EUR Interest Rate DerivativesTo do it, we regard the risk factors of the portfolio as the 1-day, 3-month, 1-year, 2-year, 5-year, 10-year zero rates of- USA Treasury Yield Curve- USD Swap Yield Curve- German Treasury Yield Curve- Greece Treasury Yield Curve- EUR Swap Yield CurveThus, there are 6 x 5 = 30 risk factors.Suppose we can express the portfolio exposure in terms of the above risk factors, what is the market practice of calculating the VaR of the portfolio?