Financial Instruments and Technology
The Kroll Financial Instruments and Technology practice is a leading solutions provider for asset managers, hedge funds, fund administrators, banks, insurers, private equity firms, commodity trading and investment firms, and corporations.
We provide independent valuation services and risk & financial advisory across a broad range of structured, illiquid investments and complex assets. We assess complex financial instruments through the lens of asset managers’ risk underwriting processes, paired with Kroll’s deep regulatory, accounting, and financial reporting expertise.
Kroll’s Financial Instruments & Technology team is comprised of professionals from across the complex asset ecosystem, including former buy side investors, sell side structuring and capital markets agents, rating agency leaders, collateral managers, and advisory experts.
Our asset class expertise includes:
Structured Products:
- CLOs & CLO risk retention
- ABS
- RMBS
- CMBS & CRE CLOs
- Collateralized fund obligations (CFOs)
- Credit-linked notes (CLNs)
- Rated note feeder funds
- SRT & CRT
Complex & Esoteric Securities:
- Derivatives, options & hedging instruments
- Synthetic securities
- Transportation receivables (aircraft, shipping, rail)
- Life settlements & esoteric receivables
- SPACs
- PIPEs & founder shares
Private Structured Investments:
- Private securitized assets
- Convertible bonds & preferreds
- Warrants
- Private structured credit
- Structured equity
- Contingent claims analyses (CCA)
- Transfer rights & offtake agreements
Loan Pools:
- Whole loans & warehouses
- Consumer whole loans
- Consumer loan servicing rights
- Student loan pools
- Auto loans
- Agency & non-agency mortgage pools
- Solar and esoteric pools
- Factoring receivables
Special Situations Investments:
- Bankruptcy claims
- Distressed debt & equity
- Part-out investments
- Trade claims
- Royalty claims
- Litigation receivables
- Media streaming rights
- Life settlements
We provide bespoke advisory services to our clients, including:
- Independent valuations of financial instruments for financial & LP reporting
- Daily pricing for interval funds & related regulatory reporting (e.g., NPORT)
- Transaction-supportive valuations & risk retentions
- Model validations & model reviews
- Model stress testing
- Code reviews
- Valuation policies & procedures advisory
At Kroll, we understand that each source of data is unique and critical to our client’s success. Our process is streamlined by integrating automated data processing platforms that are easily adaptable to create reliable, homogenous datasets, regardless of the source. We further leverage technology to automate processes to provide operational efficiency and scale.
We create an environment that improves our clients’ abilities to identify, control, diversify, mitigate and/or exploit risk, to ask deeper questions and deliver more meaningful answers, to bring these capabilities to their investors, and to thrive in today’s market environment.
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Kroll, the leading independent provider of global financial and risk advisory solutions, and StepStone Group (Nasdaq: STEP), a global private markets solutions provider, today announced the launch of the Kroll StepStone Private Credit Benchmarks (Benchmarks). A new industry standard, the Benchmarks enable more robust and rigorous valuation and provide an unmatched level of intelligence into multiple asset class's investment characteristics.
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Portfolio Valuation
Kroll specializes in assisting clients with the valuation of alternative investments, specifically securities and positions for which there are no "active market" quotations.
Secondary Market Advisory Services
As the largest independent valuation advisory firm, Kroll brings extensive industry experience to the secondary market for alternative investments to address the transfer needs of general partners and limited partners.
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