Built by the buyside, for the buyside.

AVM Solutions

August Valance Report

United States

This week’s economic data showed an economy muddling through at a rate of growth below potential, but unlikely to be negative. At times, the mediocre data has garnered a positive response after the string of negative news last week lowered market expectations and left many people expecting a “double dip”. The ADP report showed private payrolls contracted 10k in August and suggests Friday’s important payroll data could be a bit softer than expected (consensus is 41k of private payroll gains).

>> Read More

Valuations

AVM provides daily prices for over 3,500 credit derivatives to its fixed-income and credit derivatives clients. While servicing the needs of the III funds, among others, AVM has consistently developed the latest pricing models for valuing complex Level 2 assets. In addition to the models, we have a team of experts who constantly "scrub" the data and prices to assure reasonableness and assess the materiality of any variances.