About Us

RISKVAL FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS, LLC:

A fast growing financial engineering company; it was founded by Jordan Hu in 2001. Jordan Hu brought together talents from Wall Street and academics. The RiskVal team has successfully integrated its member’s experiences and expertise to design the RiskVal Financial Systems for pricing, portfolio management, and risk management. The RiskVal System covers fixed-income, equity, foreign exchange, and derivatives securities. In addition, RiskVal consulting services in risk management, trading strategies, and financial engineering.

RISKVAL FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS KEY TEAM MEMBERS:

The primary objective of the RiskVal team is to provide clients a  state-of-the-art
integrated system for market analytics, portfolio  management, and risk management.
           
Jordan Hu: President and CEO           
• Past experiences include Arbitrage Group at Salomon  Brothers and Fixed-Income
   division  at Goldman Sachs.
• Founded K&L Management Consulting, Inc. in 1998.
• His expertise is in market risk analysis and relative  value trading.

Samuel Albert, Ph.D.:  Head of Quantitative Research
• Head of Research
• Prior to joining RiskVal, he was the head quant on the  fixed income desk at
   Black River Asset Management
• A member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics,
   and is on the SIAM Activity Group for Mathematical Finance

Jim Liao: Architect  and IT Manager
• Served as senior system designer at IBM, with specialty in distributed architecture
   and Internet communications.
• He supervises RiskVal's technical design and management.

WHY RISKVAL?

The Philosophy of RiskVal Financial Solutions:

     To design an integrated financial system to meet the
     demands for accurate valuation and efficient risk
     management. As such, the RiskVal system is designed
     to provide:

  • A comprehensive coverage of equity, fixed-income,
         foreign exchange, and derivative securities.

      • A complete risk management interface for easy
         intergration of valuation and portfolio management
         system.

      • The construction of arbitrage-free yield curve is
         based on the advanced interest rate model
         and volatility curve.

      • The capability to perform scenario analysis
         under various assumptions and market conditions
         in order to provide best estimate of portfolio value
         and real-time P&L.

      • Functionalities to report conventional risk
         measures such as DV01, Duration, and Convexity,
         as well as advanced risk  measures including
         Forward Rate Risk,Key Rate Duration, and Bucket Risk.
         Risk management and hedging are hence integrated.

      • A platform that utilizes real-time market data to
         provide traders and managers a true picture of
         changing market conditions at all times.

      • Enhanced P&L analysis, so that users know the
         sources of every day P&Ls.

The success of RiskVal Financial Solutions is attributable to the team of talented and dedicated members from Wall Street and academics. Their experiences and efforts will lead to continuous enhancement of Pricing Models to produce the best estimate of fair market value as well as meaningful risk measures. The complete RiskVal system was released in 2000. Credit Suisse used the system for fixed-income & related trading in New York.