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    Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR)

    The average loss in the worst tail of outcomes, used as a risk objective that focuses on bad scenarios rather than overall volatility.

    CVaR (also called Expected Shortfall) is the expected loss given that the loss exceeds the Value-at-Risk threshold. Optimizing for CVaR produces portfolios that are more robust to fat-tailed and skewed return distributions than variance-based methods.

    Formula

    CVaR_\alpha = E[L \mid L \ge VaR_\alpha]

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