Standard and Beyond (S&B) offers a range of services to help you achieve your financial goals. One of our key services is financial risk management, which is the practice of protecting economic value in a firm by managing exposure to financial risks.
Financial risks are uncertainties that arise from financial markets, such as changes in interest rates, exchange rates, commodity prices, stock prices, credit quality, and liquidity. These risks can affect the profitability, cash flow, and value of your business. If not managed properly, they can also lead to financial distress or bankruptcy.
At S&B, we have a team of experts who can help you identify, measure, and manage your financial risks. We use sophisticated tools and techniques to analyze your risk profile, design optimal hedging strategies, and implement them using various financial instruments. We also monitor and evaluate your risk management performance and provide you with regular reports and feedback.
Interest rate risk management: We help you manage the risk of changes in interest rates that affect the value of your assets and liabilities, such as loans, bonds, mortgages, and derivatives. We help you choose the best mix of fixed and floating rate instruments, and use interest rate swaps, caps, floors, collars, and other derivatives to hedge your interest rate risk.
We help you manage the risk of changes in stock prices that affect the value of your equity investments, such as shares, mutual funds, ETFs, and derivatives. We help you diversify your portfolio across different sectors, markets, and regions, and use index futures, index options, stock futures, stock options, equity swaps, and other derivatives to hedge your equity risk.
We help you manage the risk of default or deterioration in credit quality of your counterparties , such as customers , suppliers , lenders , borrowers , and derivatives issuers . We help you assess the creditworthiness of your counterparties , set appropriate credit limits , monitor credit exposures , and use credit derivatives , such as credit default swaps , credit spread options , total return swaps , and other instruments to hedge your credit risk.
We help you manage the risk of insufficient cash or marketable assets to meet your current or future obligations , such as operating expenses , debt repayments , dividends , and capital expenditures . We help you forecast your cash flows , maintain adequate liquidity buffers , access diverse sources of funding , optimize your asset-liability maturity structure , and use liquidity derivatives , such as liquidity options , liquidity swaps , liquidity futures , and other instruments to hedge your liquidity risk.
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