A company has an equity stock portfolio with current market value of $2,000,000. The portfolio consists of 75% investment in the Stock AAA and 25% investment in the Stock BBB. The company is estimating potential future losses of its portfolio if stock market fluctuates significantly. The company adopts analytical Value-at Risk (VaR) method to assess its exposure to equity market risk. For the Stock AAA, expected monthly returns is 5% and standard deviation of monthly returns is 8%. For the Stock BBB, expected monthly returns is 3% and standard deviation of monthly returns is 6%. The correlation of monthly returns between the Stock AAA and the Stock BBB is 0.60. Required:
1) Determine the absolute monthly VaR at the 95% confidence level.
2) Determine the relative quarterly VaR at the 99% confidence level.
