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The use of property derivatives are not new in the UK commercial property market, but could experience strong growth in the US in the coming years. Risk Integrated's Peter Andresén explores the nascent property derivatives market and how their use necessitates solid quantitative methods for valuing risk.
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Risk Integrated's Roger Chi relates the importance of disciplined and complete data integration for assessing credit risk in commercial real estate portfolios. In the recent issue of Mortgage Finance Gazette, the process of creating a central, structured repository, allowing institutions to quickly assess their true risk position, is described.
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As the effects of the current real estate market permeate into the CRE sector, investors are demanding more understanding of the risk exposure and market stresses on their portfolios. In a recent article appearing in the U.S. in Real Estate Weekly online news, Risk Integrated now offers a new equity analysis module in response to demands for more transparency.
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For the second year running, Risk Integrated's Specialized Finance System has been recognized in as the 'best spreadsheet product' for taming spreadsheets within an enterprise-level system from OpRisk & Compliance magazine. They compile their 2008 compliance software rankings from responses among key global, financial institutions.
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Risk Integrated announced it has added an equity analysis module to its Specialized Finance System for Commercial Real Estate. The addition allows portfolio and asset managers the ability to analyze debt and equity investments within a single, coherent system.
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In the latest edition of Briefings in Real Estate Finance, Risk Integrated has published an article giving examples of how the risk in individual commercial real estate deals can be assessed and re-structured using the Specialized Finance System.
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Risk Integrated has expanded the capabilities of its Specialized Finance System by adding cashflow analysis for the use of property derivatives in commercial real estate lending.
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Dr. Peter Andresén warns that the constantly evolving deal structures in project finance today make them inherently complex to risk manage. In an article appearing in February on the Infrastructure Journal website, he says with proper, advanced tools, banks can achieve solid risk assessment with greater confidence and speed.
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In a recent article in Mortgage Risk magazine, Chris Marrison advocates cashflow simulation as the best solution for measuring risk across a commercial real estate portfolio. He points out the inherent limitations of the other main approaches such as a Value-at-Risk framework, standard cashflow modelling, and scorecards.
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The use of property derivatives to hedge commercial real estate investments has grown substantially in the UK over the past five years. Indices developed at NCREIF and S&P may initialize their use in the US. However, investors need to be well aware of derivatives' benefits and dangers.