iFVS
iFVS Overview

Independent pricing services are more than just single price data sets delivered at month end. They involve creation and synthesis of bid-offer spreads when none exist. They use sets of studied and focused algorithms to evaluate the impact of corporate event risk on an asset's value and sector.

Discovering and tracking benchmark relative value relationships of a single asset begets many a pricing model. Identifying an asset's or derivative product's sensitivity to a dominant mean reverting feature or correlation is fundamental. It may become the hallmark of a superior evaluated pricing technique underlying many a model. It is a never ending study of assets and their relationships to one another.

All markets tell us day in and day out a story of not just themselves but of the other markets that they influence and they follow, some nearby, some far away. That story may be as different from one day to the next but often with patterns that we try to observe.

And liquidity sources, they too paint a picture over time of what is happening to price. When aggregated and studied anonymously as to indications reported to their patrons, our clients, they provide a glimpse of where value may or may not lie and under what conditions.

Many of our inquiries come from Clients seeking better foundations of data, price, and archival support. With these are accomplished compliance with FAS 157 (Level 2) pricing or IAS 39. A best practices and risk anticipatory mindset infuses their operations and risk management teams. Less information may not always be more when synthetically pricing less liquid assets or derivatives. More information on opaque assets or products is never less when markets and regulators worldwide are seeking more.

Independent Fair Valuation Services or iFVS™ provides independent and accurate fair market valuations compliant with the directives of FASB and FAS 157.

The value of independence is the ability to speak with wisdom and authority at a needed moment in time. In capital finance, this often occurs when markets and participants may least be able to maintain expected objectivity and discipline. The private equity revolution itself has spawned new asset classes, new instruments and new ways of generating wholesale credit and leverage. And found amid the dizzying array of de novo off balance sheet products are the clever tools with which to manage new risks.

The alternative products and investment industry has long sought that voice and source of independence in valuation. It also seeks the best practices of synthetic pricing in these same services. Together they combine to give you iFVS, the quiet voice heard clearly and distinctly by some of the largest lenders and absolute return investors in the world.

From a range of backgrounds and skill sets, Team GPE supports iFVS™ or Independent Fair Value Service to serve a burgeoning and ever demanding global subscriber base in fair value data services illuminating some of the least transparent and most complex assets and derivative products offered globally today.

Let us be your monthly constellation and sky borne GPS in the changing sea of alternative investing.