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Monte Carlo Simulation
Monte Carlo is most helpful when some or all assets in a
portfolio are not amenable to analytical treatment
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Monte Carlo Simulation
Scenario generation
Monte Carlo begins with the generation of n normal
variables with unit variance and correlation matrix Σ.
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Monte Carlo Simulation
Cholesky Decomposition
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General Result
1/ 2
i−1
2
aii = sii −∑aik
k=1
i−1
1
aij = (sij −∑aikajk )1/ 2 j = i +1, i + 2,, N
aii k=1
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