About the William Margrabe Group, Inc. Last revised: 11/07/01

The William Margrabe Group, Inc. (Prospective customers can reach us by telephone in Area Code 914 at telephone number 738-3309.) is a risk management and financial engineering boutique, with emphasis on modeling the reality of financial management and risk management. If financial models were food, then we could cook up anything nourishing on the menu, from soup to steak to nuts. If financial models were clothing, we could help produce any sexy outfit, from making original sketches to stitching together short skirts to inventorying racks of gowns.

Of course, financial models are neither food, nor clothing. For the more technical, in a typical assignment, the Group might do any or all of the following:

• convert a client's risk management, financial engineering, derivatives pricing, or other financial problem into an abstract mathematical model
• convert an abstract mathematical model into a practical computational algorithm
• convert an algorithm into computer code (C/C++, JavaScript/Java, VisualBasic, APL, Excel, ...)
• document an existing model, algorithm, code, or system, and/or
• test the documented model, algorithm, code, or system.

MOST IMPORTANTLY, we can explain any or all of the above in plain English or pure mathematics to all sorts of people, with and without Ph.D.s -- such as controllers, auditors, traders, quants, risk managers, hedge fund investors, and board members. Caveat: Of course, even we couldn't explain a model to all these people in the same room, at the same time, in the same language.

Recent assignments have included modeling, coding, documenting, testing, and/or explaining pricing and risk management for contracts and portfolios with underlying risk factors that have included the standard risks (interest rates and prices of bonds, commodities, currencies, and equities), nonstandard risks (heating and cooling degree days, mortality, and real estate), and -- of course -- credit quality and default risk.