The VaR of a portfolio at the 99% confidence level is $250,000 when mean return is assumed to be zero. If the
assumption of zero returns is changed to an assumption of returns of $10,000, what is the revised VaR?
For a hypotherical UoM, the number of losses in two non-overlapping datasets is 24 and 32 respectively. The
Pareto tail parameters for the two datasets calculated using the maximum likelihood estimation method are 2
and 3. What is an estimate of the tail parameter of the combined dataset?