Whisk the Risk Away

Whisk the Risk Away

A bank has a credit card portfolio. It is happy about that. Fees are good and higher rates mean more interest coming in. There is just one little bummer, and that is the capital it has to hold in reserve incase any cardholders default. A private credit firm has a...
Not All Quant Quakes Are Black Swans

Not All Quant Quakes Are Black Swans

Information about the Chinese financial markets is often fleeting, sparse, and long after the fact. This week, however, Bloomberg brought a piece on a recent Quant Quake, a headline too good to pass up. The piece talks about how Chinese quant hedge funds—hedge funds...

Optimal Pacing for Private Assets: An Example

The FRG Private Capital Forecasting (PCF) solution recently released a module for optimal pacing.  Pacing refers to the planning of future commitments. Future commitments encompass a decision on commitment size as well as a decision on commitment timing. This is done...

How COVID-19 Could Affect Private Capital Investors

A new blog by Preqin explores what COVID-19 could mean for private capital investors. FRG and Preqin, an industry-leading provider of data, analytics and insights for the alternative assets community, partnered to develop a novel cash flow prediction model. The model...