Valuation Solutions - VALUE & RISK

Your challenges — Our solutions

Challenge

STAFFING

One of the most challenging tasks for our clients is recruiting and retaining a team of dedicated valuation experts, separated from risk management, with an appropriate academic background and relevant experience who understand and can evaluate complex investments.

Challenge

We have a team of more than 20 experienced experts with the relevant academic background (PhD or master’s in mathematics, economics, etc.), dedicated to the valuation of complex financial assets. Our team can support all your valuation activities fast and efficiently, allowing you to focus on your core business activities.

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INFRASTRUCTURE

Valuation infrastructure is, by nature, very complex and requires large investments in IT equipment, valuation software and quality-assured market data. The cost and effort necessary to build up and maintain this infrastructure on a regular basis as well as the collection of independent market data can be very significant. Choosing an external software solution can turn out to be a ‘black box’ and can reduce certainty and transparency.

Challenge

At Value & Risk, we use our own, state-of-the-art valuation infrastructure, along with the best market-data sources, fully transparent valuation models for practically any asset on the market, the highest IT security standards and advanced business continuity support. Our software is developed in-house to give you full transparency and audit security.

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REGULATION

Adjusting to rapidly changing regulatory requirements is one of the major challenges facing any investment manager, i.e. covering the current requirements and preparing for future regulatory initiatives in terms of compliance, operations and costs.

Challenge

We offer our services to many customers throughout Europe, complying with all the relevant regulations. We continuously update our services in order to provide our customers with quick and efficient adjustments to new requirements and to make sure they are fully compliant with the most recent regulations.

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DOCUMENTATION

Any proper valuation infrastructure needs to be documented in an adequate and transparent manner. The asset manager must ensure that all valuation models and procedures (from collecting market data to reporting) are properly documented and updated on a regular basis.

Challenge

Transparency is fundamental to our services. We offer a comprehensive package of model, methodology and process documentation, as well as special audit reports and tools to provide customers, auditors and regulators with the greatest transparency possible.

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AUDIT SUPPORT

One of the primary challenges our clients are faced with is ensuring that internal, external and supervisory audits are carried out smoothly and without any significant remarks. To do this, they must provide evidence, including drill-down details on any valuation results, as well as employee know-how and experience, in order to answer all the auditor’s questions.

Challenge

Value & Risk is specialized and highly experienced in supporting internal, external and regulatory audits. When acting as an external valuer, we manage all the audit activities ourselves, ensuring that auditors are comfortable with the valuation results.

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LIABILITY

The management of the asset manager or depositary is responsible for all valuations performed by its internal valuer function. In case of claims, liability can be a serious issue for the company and its management.

Challenge

As an experienced external valuer (AIFMD), we take most of the liability for valuation results. Since 2010, our internal processes and quality assurance mechanisms have been audited annually according to ISAE 3402 Type II (by KPMG).

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NEW PRODUCT PROCESS

Market competition often concerns about two important factors: time to market and cost efficiency. It is vital for our clients (in terms of the development of their business) to have implemented fast and efficient procedures in order to support sales efforts in case of questions about valuation.

Challenge

We support our customers by ensuring the timely implementation of new products and the onboarding process of additional customer requests. Our team of experts supports the sales process by supplying answers to valuation and structuring questions, and by offering special trainings and client presentations.

Solution

Our high-quality valuation solutions for your business

Value & Risk is the leading solution provider in Europe for the outsourcing of valuation processes for financial investments. We support you with custom made solutions to cover all your regulatory and internal valuation requirements.

Our fully Independent, high quality and 100% on-shore services cover all financial assets classes, simultaneously meeting all EU regulation requirements. Our services are audited on an annual basis by KPMG for ISAE 3402 Type II to ensure the best quality and transparency.

We generally provide valuation solutions for all asset classes:

Portfolio valuation as a service
Independent asset price validation for liquid (market price) and illiquid (third party prices) instruments
Pre- and post-trade fair value analysis
Risk reporting and stresstests
Deep dive reporting
Audit support

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