In this article, we define new 'Greeks' for financial derivatives: sensitivities to the running maximum and the running maximum drawdown of an underlying asset. Some types of portfolios, such as the net asset value of a hedge fund or performance fees, are sensitive to these parameters. In order...

Value-at-Risk (VaR) has become one of the standard measures for assessing risk not only in the financial industry but also for asset allocations of individual investors. The traditional mean-variance framework for portfolio selection should, however, be revised when the investor's concern is the...

The main purpose of this paper is to derive unbiased Monte Carlo estimators of various sensitivity indices for an averaged asset price dynamics governed by the gamma Lévy process. The key idea is to apply a scaling property of the gamma process with respect to the Esscher density transform...