medium · FRM Part 1

A risk analyst is performing a bootstrap of a historical return series to estimate the 99% Value-at-Risk (VaR).

What is a primary limitation of this non-parametric approach?

  1. It assumes that returns are normally distributed.
  2. It requires the calculation of a Cholesky matrix.
  3. It fails to capture the serial correlation of the data.
  4. It cannot generate outcomes more extreme than those present in the historical sample.

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