Insightful Finance Solutions

Maximize Profits and Minimize Risk in a Challenging Market Environment

Insightful Financial Solutions help our Banking, Insurance and Investment customers address the ever changing Risk and Investment Management challenges unique to each industry.

The Insightful Financial Solutions team offers comprehensive solutions for:

Risk Management

New and volatile markets, ever evolving regulations and increased competition are three immediate challenges facing the Financial Services industry.  Insightful solutions are fundamental to driving business through rapid model deployment and development, advanced analytics, managing risk, and ensuring that executives can make accurate and timely decisions based upon the best information available.

• Market Risk
• Credit Risk
• Risk Aggregation/Capital Management
• Basel II
• Solvency II for Insurance

Investment Management

Advanced risk analysis of current and future exposure is critical to optimize financial performance. Insightful has a reputation for providing advanced analytics to financial institutions for more than 16 years from modern, cutting-edge methods to flexible, extensible sophisticated to scalable, integrated solutions.

• Portfolio Optimization
• Trading Strategies

Insightful brings 20 years of experience in advanced analytics and aiding financial services organizations in meeting their evolving risk management needs and challenges.  Insightful provides flexible, extensible solutions to effectively maximize profit and minimize risk.

For more information, please make your selection from among our white papers, case studies and archived Web casts:

• Archived Events & Web Casts
• Success Stories
• Whitepapers & Application Notes

If you would like to read how S-PLUS is used in complex financial models you can review these titles available for sale:

• Introduction to Modern Portfolio Optimization with NuOPT,
  S-PLUS and S+Bayes, by Bernd Scherer and Doug Martin
• Second Edition of Modeling Financial Time Series with
  S-PLUS, by Eric Zivot and Jiahui Wang
• Portfolio Construction and Risk Budgeting, Second Edition, by Bernd Scherer
• Quantitative Risk Management: Concepts, Techniques, and Tools, by Alexander J. McNeil, Rüdiger Frey, & Paul Embrechts
• Statistical Analysis of Financial Data in S-PLUS, Rene Carmona

To find out how Insightful Financial Solutions can prepare your institution to perform in these challenging times, please email or call in the US and Canada (800) 569-0123, UK +44 (0) 1256 339800, Zurich +41 (0)44 251 68 44, or Hong Kong/Asia Pacific +852 2549 0268.