Munich-based Thetaris has announced the laucnh of Theta Suite XL, a Microsoft Excel toolkit designed specifically for Monte Carlo simulation. The toolkit uses a proprietary coding language, ThetaML, ...

Taking distributions from an investment portfolio amplifies the impacts of portfolio volatility, making retirement income planning particularly tricky as distributions tend to be the primary income ...

This paper discusses a value-at-risk (VaR) time-scaling approach based on fitting a distribution function so as to apply a Monte Carlo simulation to determine long-term VaR. The paper uses composite ...

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A recent report, “Risky Business: The Economic Risks of Climate Change in the United States,” co-chaired by Michael R. Bloomberg, Henry Paulson and Tom Steyer, suggests that “by 2050 between $66 ...

This article attempts to adapt the Monte Carlo method to the quantitative risk management of environmental pollution. In this context, the feasibility of stochastic models to quantitatively evaluate ...

A Monte Carlo simulation in investing is like rolling the dice on potential outcomes for your investments. Instead of relying on past performance or gut feelings, Monte Carlo simulations use computer ...