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Value at Risk and Tail Limits

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You are reviewing a market risk model for a portfolio with volatile daily profit and loss. The discussion is about how to summarize downside risk with a single percentile measure, and whether that measure is reliable when losses come from rare, severe events.

Question

How do you calculate Value at Risk (VaR), and what are its main limitations when modeling extreme risk events?