Risk is everywhere in your clients' financial decisions. If your analyses don’t always reflect this fact, you jeopardize losing business to your competitors. Issuers are increasingly expecting results not using simple historic averages, infused with the flaw of averages and perpetuated by over-reliance on spreadsheets, but state-of-the-art simulation and debt structuring solutions. The issuer can then clearly see the best alternative subject to clearly identified and quantified risks.
With patented technologies, SmartModels™ analytics capture the uncertainty in real world finance decisions your clients make. Increase the power of your presentations with demonstrably greater information content and watch your business grow. SmartModelsTM benefits include:
Interactive Problem Solving: The most powerful mode of mental processing is visual. See how SmartModelsTM takes your clients' complex debt and balance sheet management problems and turns them into visually interactive solutions. Give a presentation they won't forget, and win business because of it.
Idea Generation: Looking for unique, powerful ideas for that meeting you set up next week? Let SmartModelsTM patented optimization-based analytics provide custom, segment-of-one solutions that give you the competitive edge you need and your clients will love.
Risk Analytics: Whether synthetic or cash market structures, SmartModelsTM provide tailored risk analytics for an uncertain world. See how our patent pending technologies directly incorporate risk in your capital structure alternatives. Your clients will be very glad you did.
Decision-Making Framework: Issuers more than ever want a clear, comprehensive framework for making financial decisions. SmartModelsTM provides easily implemented risk analytics in every proposal you make. Fail to provide it, and you risk losing business to those who do.
SmartModels™ analytics applicable to public finance bankers include:
Stage I - Go from zero to full debt profile including refunding genealogies and debt paints in seconds with BloombergTM link
Stage II - Targeted analysis of risk and hedging for two structures: investment to bonds, swap to bonds, and swap to investment
Stage III - Your client worried about interest rate risk on the balance sheet? Quantify, manage, and solve for optimal strategies given market uncertainty
Capital - Working up a new finance plan and need to select from multiple debt strategies? Capital visually and interactively shows you the seamless integration of debt sizing and cash flow risk management with custom, maturity by maturity, risk-adjusted solutions
Balance - Address the complexity of market risks across the balance sheet. Balance measures, manages and finds optimal strategies for liability cash flows and investment returns. User may also model operating performance and volatility.
Calibrator - Is market risk modeling new to you? Calibrator helps you understand the nuances of this type of analysis using historic data, forecasts, or market implied distributions; delivered intuitively and without the usual mind-numbing headache
Structure - Comprehensively determine your client's optimum financing and re-financing strategy visually and interactively using Structure. See how Structure automatically selects refunded bonds based upon the objectives and constraints of the financing problem
Refund - Screening refunding candidates is a fundamental part of public finance analysis. See how Refund's state-of-the-art optimization algorithms can maximize your overall savings given limited capacity for up to three different markets
Escrow - Use BloombergTM Link to grab the universe of securities you define and get the cheapest escrow cost possible for up to twenty escrows simultaneously.
Curves - Need to help your clients understand their swap mark-to-market exposure? SmartModelsTM Curves is the answer.