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Table 3 Generalized CM VaR bounds versus FFT VaR from best fitted return distributions

From: An explicit version of the Chebyshev-Markov-Stieltjes inequalities and its applications

CM VaR bound of order m

SMI and SP500 data sets

SMI 3Y/1D

SP 3Y/1D

SMI 24Y/1D

SP 24Y/1D

SP 63Y/1M

1

14.10674

14.10674

14.10674

14.10674

14.10674

2

5.70929

5.80257

6.38478

6.57694

5.52054

3

4.63181

5.08737

5.85193

5.97425

5.05367

4

4.33603

5.08073

5.81340

5.97368

5.03519

5

4.24284

4.51830

5.15713

5.19075

4.07623

6

4.20294

4.04401

5.01443

4.88268

3.91300

7

4.18175

3.98179

4.91795

4.88033

3.89962

8

4.17181

3.97972

4.51596

4.56437

3.41525

9

4.16756

3.96797

4.44315

4.29779

3.31145

10

4.16568

3.45184

4.42918

4.28693

3.30855

maximum loss

4.20421

5.93094

9.39704

8.18808

5.95942

Normal approx.

2.57583

2.57583

2.57583

2.57583

2.57583

FFT VaR

SMI 3Y/1D

SP500 3Y/1D

SMI 24Y/1D

SP 24Y/1D

SP 63Y/1D

VG

3.18228

3.09191

3.55423

3.69317

2.65234

NVG

3.15521

3.08703

3.42190

3.52504

2.49884

TLF-BG

3.46466

3.58737

3.83378

3.92492

3.57468

TLF

3.42602

3.57239

3.78536

3.71739

3.54963

NIG

3.43097

3.56194

3.72618

3.78626

3.58135

NTS

3.44828

3.60691

3.62529

3.72720

3.54761

best fit FFT

NVG

NVG

NTS

TLF

NTS

max. FFT VaR

TLF-BG

NTS

TLF_BG

TLF_BG

NIG