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VALUE & RISK’S INDEPENDENT VALUATION
SOLUTIONS FOR COMPLEX AND ILLIQUID FINANCIAL Instruments

Trusted by Europe’s leading financial institutions to deliver clarity, compliance, and confidence across any instrument, asset class, or level of complexity.
WE VALUE COMPLEXITY
WE DELIVER CONFIDENCE

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PRIIPS COMPLIANCE

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Delegate your
PRIIPS COMPLIANCE

with Value & Risk PRIIPs Transaction
Cost Analysis Solution
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Delegate your
PRIIPS COMPLIANCE

with Value & Risk PRIIPs Transaction
Cost Analysis Solution
Let´s have a chat

NAVIGATE COMPLEXITY
WITH CONFIDENCE

Whether your priority is regulatory compliance, empowering your internal capabilities, or concentrating on your core investment strategies, Value & Risk delivers a comprehensive valuation solution tailored to your needs.

Our unique approach blends quantitative expertise and qualitative financial acumen underpinned by state-of-the-art technology with nearly 30 years of valuation leadership to deliver audit-proof precision, operational relief, and institutional confidence.

Our independent valuation services are designed for banks, asset managers, fund administrators, and institutional investors who must:

  • Meet stringent compliance & regulatory demands
  • Strengthen internal valuation capabilities
  • Focus on their core investment strategy

Whether you need a one-off independent valuation or a full-scope solution embedded into your portfolio process, Value & Risk is your partner in tackling complexity confidently and compliantly.

Independent. Defensible. Regulatory-Ready.

WE VALUE COMPLEXITY.
WE DELIVER CONFIDENCE.

Financial institutions and institutional investors face increasingly complex valuation challenges. As portfolios grow more diverse and regulatory demands intensify, traditional valuation practices often fall short. Illiquid instruments, bespoke structures, and evolving audit expectations require a more robust, independent, and specialised approach.

Valuation Uncertainty

Illiquid or tailor-made instruments often lack observable market inputs making reliable, defensible pricing a major challenge.

Regulatory Pressure

Meeting AIFMD, KARBV, IFRS, and ESMA expectations requires not just technical models, but structured governance, audit trails, and external independence.

Internal Limitations

Even sophisticated teams may lack the bandwidth, quantitative depth, or infrastructure to manage complex valuation models at scale — particularly under time pressure.

Audit and LP Scrutiny

Investors and regulators increasingly demand full transparency, plausibility logic, and documentation, leaving no room for black boxes or ad hoc processes.

Operational Burden

Managing model risk, version control, scenario simulations, and documentation places significant strain on internal resources delaying reporting and stretching compliance teams thin.
The Gold Standard for Independent
Valuation of Complex Instruments

In all cases, you will value our ability to scale support, from advisory and model validation to full portfolio valuation services.

Because we value complexity, each asset class demands a distinct valuation methodology from bespoke quantitative models and scenario analysis to scalable mark-to-model solutions.

TAILORED
FLEXIBILITY

Bespoke solutions matched to your risk factors, internal systems, and reporting needs.

INDEPENDENCE
THAT BUILDS TRUST

Our independence is your strongest defence providing objective, regulatory-aligned valuations that reinforce audit readiness, investor trust, and pricing integrity.

REGULATORY CONFIDENCE

Our valuations are backed by transparent documentation and audit-ready reports, ensuring alignment with regulatory expectations.

EXPERT EXTENSION OF YOUR TEAM

Access cross-functional expertise: quantitative engineers, financial analysts, and valuation specialists, in Europe based in Frankfurt and Luxembourg ,we bring hands-on experience across structured credit, private debt, bespoke instruments, and Level 3 assets.

TECHNOLOGY-DRIVEN CAPABILITY

Leverage our proprietary platform, robust model library, and scalable computation infrastructure. From liquid instruments to the most complex and illiquid assets, the platform ensures consistency, transparency, and audit ability at every step.

Coverage
Highlights

Our services cover a comprehensive range of asset classes currently available in the market. The following list provides an illustrative overview of commonly valued instruments. We can confidently assure you that we have the expertise to value almost any instrument in the market today, even if it is not included in the list below.
Bonds
Corporate Bonds
Emerging Market Bonds
Financials
Defaulted Bonds
Pfandbriefe
Danish Mortgage Bonds
Callable Bonds
Inflation Linked Bonds
Puttable Bonds
Credit Linked Bonds
Agencies
FRN
Municipals
CMS-Bonds
Jumbos
Mezzanine
Sovereigns
Genussscheine
Dual Currency Bonds
Hybrids
Convertibles
Coco-Bonds
Equity
Private Equity
Equity Mezzanine
Corporate Equity
Venture Capital/Pre-IPO
Structured Finance
ABS
CMBS
CLO
Synthetic Single Tranche CDOs
CMO
Cashflow CDOs
MBS
CDO – Squared
RMBS
Loans
REAL ESTATE
1st Lien Loans, 2nd Lien Loans
Mezzanine Loans
Bridge Financing
CORPORATE FINANCE
Schuldschein SSD/NSV
Subordinated Corporate Loans
Syndicated Loans
Equity-Trigger Mezzanine
Senior Corporate Loans
INFRASTRUCTURE
Project-Finance
1st Lien Loans, 2nd Lien Loans
Renewable Energy Finance
Seed Capital Loans
SHIP-/AIRPLANE FINANCING
Lease Financing
1st Lien Loans, 2nd Lien Loans
SPECIAL FINANCE
Non-Performing Loans
Tier 1 Capital
Defaulted Bonds/Loans
UT 2 Capital
Microfinance
LT 2 Capital
Commodity
Spots
Options
Futures
Baskets / Total Return Strategies
Certificates
Delta-1 Certificates
Outperformance
Structured Certificates
Guarantee
Discount
Airbag
Sprint
Basket
Express
Knock Out / In
Participation
Factor
Bonus / Reverse Bonus / Capped Bonus
Alpha
Reverse Convertible
Warrants
Intertest Rate Derivatives
Vanilla Swap
Range Accrual Swap
Cross-Currency Swap
Index Amortizing Swap
Basis Swap
Equity Basket Swaps
CMS Swap
Variance Swaps
Total Return Swap
Volatility Swaps
Equity Linked Swap
COVERED FEATURES
Cap/Floor/Collar
Fix-to-Float
Callable
Step-Up
Puttable
OIS Discounting
Swaption
Brazilian Swaps
Sinkable
Mexican Swaps
CROSS-CURRENCY SWAP TYPES
Fixed-Float
Float-Float
Fixed-Fixed
INTEREST RATE UNDERLYINGS
Fix
CMS
Float (Libor, OIS)
CMS-Spread
Equity Derivatives
Equity Tracker
Options
Futures
Baskets / Total Return Strategies
Credit Derivatives
Credit Default Swap
CDS Tranches
Credit Default Swaption
CDS Basket
CDS Indices
Money/Forex Markets
FX-Forward
FX-Swap
FX-Outright
FX-Option
Forward Rate Agreement
Hybrids
Convertibles
Coco-Bonds
Commodity
Futures
Baskets/Total Return Strategies
Options
Inflation
Inflation Linked Bonds
Cap/Floor (ZC)
Zero Coupons (ZC)
Cap/Floor (YoY)
Year-on-Year (YoY)

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