Expertise & Services

SBCC was founded in 1987 to provide independent advisory services. SBCC assists clients to both overcome problems in times of difficulty, and to thrive and grow. We place the client first and are committed to the highest standards of service, ethics, confidentiality and honesty of opinion.

Areas of expertise by the firm include (partial listing):

Risk Advisory

Market, Trading, Operations, Technology, Credit, Compliance
  • Risk management
  • Risk measurement
  • Risk budgeting
  • Risk reporting and escalation procedures
  • Problem evaluation and remedial collaboration
  • Best practices assessment
  • Risk program implementation
  • Sarbanes Oxley evaluation
  • Procedures, policies, controls
  • Due diligence
  • Problem resolution (e.g. valuation, unanticipated P&L events, unanticipated correlation or volatility events, operational issues, trading/ trader issues, etc.)

Asset Management

Global Firms, Hedge Funds, Mutual Funds, Private Equity Funds, Insurance Companies, Pension Funds, Endowments, Foundations
  • Portfolio analysis
  • Strategy expansion (for traditionals, alternatives and multi-strategy)
  • Product expansion (e.g. 130/30, portable alpha, currency or global macro overlay, leveraged, sub-strategy, index-linked, credit-protected)
  • Hedge fund and private equity fund advisory and evaluation
  • Quantitative trading advisory and evaluation
  • Due diligence for existing managers and selection of new managers
  • Best practices assessment
  • Portfolio construction

Fund Launch

  • New fund launch
  • Incubation strategies
  • Risk, operations and technology support
  • Marketing plan (see additional marketing items in next section)

Marketing

  • Logo Design
  • Brochure, website, video and design of all marketing materials
  • Writing
  • Editing
  • Pitch book preparation for institutional investors and family offices
  • Design and preparation of investor materials
  • Drafting of due diligence materials

Quantitative Finance

  • Derivatives trading and valuation
  • New product development
  • Engineered instruments (MBS, CDOs, CLOs, Asset-backeds including subprime)
  • Financial engineering
  • Hedging
  • Back testing and simulations
  • Portfolio allocation and optimization

Board and Senior Management Advisory

  • Best practices assessment for public and private firms
  • Private advisory sessions
  • Risk improvement recommendations
  • Strategy
  • Risk/ Finance/ Trading/ Operations/ Technology assessments
  • Ongoing seminars on the latest market innovations
  • Customized training and seminars

Litigation Support

  • Expert testimony
  • Valuation and damage calculations
  • Expert strategy for complex cases
  • Financial forensics
  • Cases involving complex instruments, derivatives, hedging and financial engineering

Technology

Planning, Assessment, Project Management, Information
Security for all types of Financial Firms
  • Technology Development & Planning
  • Technology Assessment
  • Technology Project Management
  • Technology Support Planning
  • System Integration Assessment
  • Vendor Management
  • Information Security Assessment
  • Information Security Planning
  • Budgeting
  • Best Practices Assessment

Including

Risk Advisory
Asset Management
Fund Launch
Marketing
Quantitative Finance
Board & Senior Management Advisory
Litigation Support
Technology