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The development of standardized measures of institution‐wide volatility exposures has so far lagged that for measures of asset price and interest‐rate exposure—largely because it is difficult to reconcile the various mathematical models used to value options. Recent mathematical results, however, can be used to construct standardized measures of volatility exposure. We consider here techniques for reconciling “vegas” for financial options valued using stochastic models that may be mathematically inconsistent with each other.

The Implied View of a portfolio can offer powerful insights to the savvy portfolio manager. This article presents a heuristic by which these returns can be computed, using information that is readily available from the public domain. We will also present a computational example to illustrate how such an analytical tool will be useful to active portfolio managers.