The Economic Scenario Service (ESS) is a comprehensive suite of advanced mathematical models designed to help you evaluate the impact of today's business decisions on tomorrow's outcomes.
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With our ESS, you can enhance your quantitative risk management exercises, conduct asset-liability modelling (ALM), perform strategic asset allocations (SAA), and carry out comprehensive financial risk analysis with confidence. Our services provide you with a competitive edge, enabling you to make strategic business decisions with precision and foresight.
For over 20 years, our (ESS) has been meticulously developed and refined by a dedicated team of specialists. Ensuring the highest standards of reliability and robustness, our core team of experts in actuarial science, quantitative modelling, academia, software development, and consulting is supported by approximately 200 digital professionals.
Built with cutting-edge technology and the latest modelling methodologies, the ESS allows seamless access to economic scenarios for integration into your applications. You can also leverage these scenarios through our extensive range of modelling tools and APIs.
Our ESS supports the majority of our institutional investment clients and underpins the risk models embedded in the APIs used by asset managers. It offers a flexible framework for generating economic scenarios and asset returns across single or multiple economies, over any time horizon. Utilising sophisticated stochastic modelling and calibration techniques, we project a wide range of asset classes, including:
nominal and real interest rates
inflation
equities and other growth assets
property
currencies
credit.
Our experts are adept at modelling bespoke funds, complex portfolio structures, and strategies, including derivatives. By blending short-term market behaviour with long-term capital market views, we produce realistic outputs.
Regularly updated with the most recent market data, the ESS ensures reliability and accuracy, empowering you to make informed business decisions. We maintain full transparency, providing clarity to management, auditors, and regulators regarding our methodologies.
The ESS is highly customisable to meet your unique business needs. Whether you require specific economic scenarios, tailored risk models, or integration with existing systems, our flexible framework can be adapted to fit your requirements. Our tools and APIs are designed for easy integration, ensuring a smooth implementation process.
We offer ongoing consulting support to help you maximize the value of our ESS. Our team provides expert guidance, training, and resources to ensure you and your team are fully equipped to utilise our wide range of modelling tools and APIs effectively.
Our dedicated support team is always available to assist with any queries or challenges you may encounter.
Join the numerous institutional investors and asset managers who have successfully enhanced their risk management and investment strategies using our ESS. Our clients have achieved significant improvements in their strategic decision-making processes and financial outcomes.
With our ESS, you can enhance your quantitative risk management exercises, conduct asset-liability modelling (ALM), perform strategic asset allocations (SAA), and carry out comprehensive financial risk analysis with confidence. Our services provide you with a competitive edge, enabling you to make strategic business decisions with precision and foresight.
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