What problem does it solve?
This Skill provides a comprehensive suite of tools to measure, analyze, and understand the various risks associated with financial portfolios, enabling better decision-making and risk mitigation.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Risk Metric Calculation: Compute essential metrics like VaR, CVaR, Sharpe Ratio, Sortino Ratio, and drawdown analysis for individual assets and portfolios.
- Portfolio Risk Analysis: Assess portfolio volatility, marginal risk contribution, and diversification.
- Rolling Analysis & Stress Testing: Analyze risk over time with rolling windows and simulate performance under historical or hypothetical crisis scenarios.
- Use Case: A portfolio manager needs to report on the risk exposure of their equity portfolio. They can use this Skill to calculate the 95% VaR, maximum drawdown, and Sharpe ratio for the past year, and then stress test the portfolio against the 2008 financial crisis.
Quick Start
Calculate the Sharpe ratio and maximum drawdown for the provided daily returns using the risk-metrics-calculation skill.