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Text size [+][-]  Tuesday February 9 2010GLOBAL EDITION

Journalists

Pablo Triana  -  Guest Columnist

newseditor@breakingviews.com

Hopes for VaR reform should be abandoned

Value at Risk was a much touted measure, used by investments banks to control their risks in proprietary trading. But this history-based tool has been tried and found desperately wanting. Reformers think tweaks could make it work right. They have missed the lesson of the crisis.