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title: Saddlepoint Approximations for Credit Portfolio Distributions with Applications in Equity Risk Management
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4679443/
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updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 4679443
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4679443
featured: 2024-01-03
citations: 2
topic: Portfolio & Allocation
---


# Saddlepoint Approximations for Credit Portfolio Distributions with Applications in Equity Risk Management

A study introduces a saddlepoint approximation for credit portfolio losses in continuous time models, providing a more efficient algorithm that greatly improves on recursive methods.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4679443
- Identifier: SSRN 4679443
- Released: 2023-12-29
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 31 (2024-01-03): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-01-03/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): 2
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Portfolio & Allocation

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