For Global Asset Managers, Robo-Advisors, Hedge Funds, Mutual Funds, Private Equity Funds, Insurance Companies, Pension Funds, Endowments, Foundations

• Strategy expansion (for traditional managers, robo-advisors, algorithmic funds, traditional and active ETFs, alternative strategies, hedge funds, etc.)
• Portfolio analysis and construction: SBCC’s periodic table of risk-return elements
• Identification of emerging opportunities in asset management including the use of big data, machine learning, artificial intelligence and optimal combinations of human and machine based strategies
• Best practices assessment and recommendations – from traditional asset management to operations and model controls for algorithmic trading and robo-advisors
• Expansion into new trading markets (e.g. crypto-currencies)
• Quantitative trading advisory and evaluation, including governance and oversight frameworks for big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence as well as for technology-leveraged research and algorithmic trading
• Due diligence for existing managers and selection of new managers

Fund Launch

• New strategy/fund launch – from traditional active and passive funds to technology-leveraged funds
• Incubation strategies
• Risk, return, operations and technology support
• Education regarding the current landscape for investors
• Funding and marketing plan

For Firms of all Stripes, Including Dealers, End-users, Service providers and Others.

• Derivatives design, trading, valuation and best practices, from equities to Bitcoin and beyond.
• New product development
• Financial engineering (Securitization, MBS, CDOs, CLOs, ABCPs, etc.)
• How to use derivatives for arbitrage, hedging and replication strategies
• Back testing, stress testing and simulations of asset- liability- hedging- and speculative-driven derivatives

MalModels™ – Perfectly Good Models in the Wrong Application.

• Identification of MalModels — examples include misapplications of pricing models, valuation models, risk models, VaR models, Guassian copula, credit or securitization models, etc.
• Impact assessments
• Remediation
• Forensic review and reporting
• Management, Board, Audit, Compliance and Legal Department education

For Law Firms, Supervisors, Boards of Directors and Others

• Expert evaluation and provision of expert opinion
• Valuation and damage calculations
• Expert strategy for complex cases
• Financial forensics

Risk Advisory

• Risk management
• Risk measurement
• Risk budgeting
• Risk reporting and escalation procedures
• Problem evaluation and remedial collaboration
• Best practices assessment
• Risk program implementation
• Procedures, policies, controls
• Due diligence
• Problem resolution (e.g. valuation, unanticipated P&L events, unanticipated correlation or volatility events, operational issues, trading/ trader issues, etc.)