Why Buy-side Risk Managers Need FINCAD
The pressure on risk managers has never been greater. The stakes are high and the expectations continue to accelerate. You need the ability to accurately measure your firm's exposure to market, credit and liquidity risk, while at the same time identifying opportunities in the market and providing recommendations for the bank's trading strategies.
Stress testing and scenario analysis are critical to your success as you must understand how your portfolios will perform given different market conditions. Credit Value Adjustment (CVA) and Value-at-Risk (VaR) and PFE are just some of the key risk metrics that are important to you. You need a system that can provide you with these.
You need to continually assess risk management policy appropriateness and effectiveness, making recommendations for improvements.
FINCAD can provide you with the right tools to help you effectively and accurately:
- Review asset or liability portfolio risk, and compare it against acceptable internal benchmarks set by company policy
- Identify sources of risk
- Identify opportunities to create or protect portfolio value by assuming or reducing risk exposure
- Recommend trading strategies and opportunities that will modify risk exposure to desired levels for execution by traders
- Attribute portfolio performance to risk levels assumed
- Create market scenarios and shocks to assess effect on portfolio value, profitability and liquidity
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