Services Overview

RISKVIEW™, our proprietary risk dashboard technology, is a powerful and flexible risk management tool. Combining market data and derivative pricing functionality with customised risk management key performance indicators (KPIs), RISKVIEW™ ensures that financial risk exposure and hedging strategy performance is transparent and easy to communicate. RISKVIEW™ facilitates collaboration between our clients and our advisory service teams, and delivers actionable internal risk reporting.

Validus designs tailored risk reports driven by the unique requirements of private debt, real estate, infrastructure and private equity funds and investors. The historical consequences and possible forward looking impacts of risk factors (such as currency, liquidity, and interest rates) are reported clearly and intuitively, and the costs and benefits of fund level hedging programs are quantified.

Managing market risk on a fund level is a complex and dynamic process for private equity and private debt funds, involving the optimization of several variables, including return at risk, liquidity impacts and hedging costs. At Validus, we work with fund managers and institutional investors to develop customized algorithms which allow hedging strategies (FX and IR) to be calibrated based on fund requirements and objectives, as well as financial market conditions.

The establishment of SMAs can introduce a new risk dimension for many funds, especially with respect to FX risk. The SMA may have a different base currency and / or risk objectives, and may require the establishment of alternative FX hedging facilities (such as credit lines). Validus has experience in designing customized SMA hedging strategies that are specifically tailored to the requirements of the investor. In addition, Validus works with leading international investment banks to establish trading facilities on behalf of the SMA, to enable the efficient execution of hedging transactions.

Private equity investments can be materially impacted by market risk volatility (FX, Interest Rates, Commodities). Validus works with private equity firms to analyze and quantify the impact of market risk on investment valuation, ensuring that deal pricing reflects these important factors.