medium · FRM Part 1 Quantitative Analysis
A risk manager is using the EWMA model with a decay factor of λ = 0.94.
If yesterday's volatility estimate was 1.5% and the realized return today is -2.5%, what is the updated volatility estimate?
- 1.50%.
- 1.58%.
- 1.63%.
- 2.50%.
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