KAMAKURA CORPORATION
Kamakura Corporation is the world’s leading provider of risk management solutions – software, information and consulting – because successfully managing financial risk while meeting regulatory requirements demands industry-leading research, sound analytics, fully integrated applications, flawless execution and quantifiable results.
ABOUT US
KAMAKURA CORPORATION
Kamakura Corporation is the world’s leading provider of risk management solutions – software, information and consulting – because successfully managing financial risk while meeting regulatory requirements demands industry-leading research, sound analytics, fully integrated applications, flawless execution and quantifiable results.
ABOUT US
KAMAKURA CORPORATION
Kamakura Corporation is the world’s leading provider of risk management solutions – software, information and consulting – because successfully managing financial risk while meeting regulatory requirements demands industry-leading research, sound analytics, fully integrated applications, flawless execution and quantifiable results.
ABOUT US
KAMAKURA TROUBLED COMPANY INDEX
The Kamakura Troubled Company Index® measures the percentage of 41,500 public firms in 76 countries that have an annualized one- month default risk of over one percent.
DAILY
Kamakura Default Probabilities versus
Legacy Ratings
Kamakura Daily Bond Performance Attribution
KRIS Daily Default Probability and
Bond Cross-Validation
NEWS & PRESS RELEASES
SAS Weekly Forecast, September 23, 2022: Peak in 1-month Forward Treasury Rates Falls 0.21% to 4.68% on Yield Curve Twist
The Federal Reserve’s 75 basis point increase resulted in a yield curve twist, with shorter term Treasury yields shifting up and longer term yields moving down. The forward 1-month U.S. Treasury yield now peaks at 4.68%, down 21 basis points from last week. As...
SAS Weekly Forecast, September 16, 2022: Peak in 1-month Forward Treasury Rates Falls 0.09% to 4.89%
The forward 1-month U.S. Treasury yield now peaks at 4.89%, down 9 basis points from last week. As explained in Prof. Robert Jarrow’s book cited below, forward rates contain a risk premium above and beyond the market’s expectations for the 1-month forward rate. We...
SAS Weekly Forecast, September 9, 2022: Peak in 1-month Forward Treasury Rates Steadies at 4.98%
The forward 1-month U.S. Treasury yield now peaks at 4.98%, up 3 basis points from last week. As explained in Prof. Robert Jarrow’s book cited below, forward rates contain a risk premium above and beyond the market’s expectations for the 1-month forward rate. We...
Kamakura Weekly Forecast, September 2, 2022: Peak in 1-month Forward Treasury Rates Climbs to 4.95%
Treasury yields moved surprisingly little on the day of Chairman Powell’s Jackson Hole comments, but on reflection early last week intermediate sections of the curve moved up considerably. The forward 1-month U.S. Treasury yield now peaks at 4.95%, up 27 basis...
The Post Covid Economy: 8.41% of Rated Firms Expected to Default in the Next Decade
Kamakura Troubled Company Index Decreases by 0.54% to 7.61% Credit Quality Improves to the 99th Percentile NEW YORK, September 1, 2022: Kamakura Corporation reported today that its Expected Cumulative Default Rate for all rated firms world-wide dropped to 8.41% on...
EVENTS
Q Group Fall Conference
September 18-21, 2022
Phoenix, AZ
ARCHIVES
INDUSTRIES WE SERVE
Kamakura’s products provide asset managers, banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions around the world with a highly advanced, integrated, end-to-end system for managing credit risk, market risk, liquidity risk, and asset-liability management. These products are designed to provide management, boards of directors, shareholders and regulators with an accurate and comprehensive view of the total financial risk of the organization as well as tools to manage that risk.
We serve the world’s most sophisticated banks, insurance companies, asset managers, pension funds, and Central banks and regulators.
PROBLEMS WE SOLVE
Asset Liability Management
Credit Portfolio Analysis and Default Probabilities
IFRS 9 and CECL
Market Risk
Credit Risk
Stress Testing
BLOGS
Donald R. van Deventer, Ph.D.
Martin Zorn currently serves as Kamakura's president and chief operating officer. In this role he oversees all day-to-day operations serving Kamakura risk management clients in 37 countries.
Sou-Cheng Choi, Ph.D.
Dr. Sou-Cheng T. Choi joined Kamakura as Chief Data Scientist on February 1st, 2020. Dr. Choi previously served as the Principal Data Scientist and Lead Researcher in Machine Learning for the automotive and life innovation groups at AllState.
SAS Weekly Forecast, September 23, 2022: Peak in 1-month Forward Treasury Rates Falls 0.21% to 4.68% on Yield Curve Twist
The Federal Reserve’s 75 basis point increase resulted in a yield curve twist, with shorter term Treasury yields shifting up and...
Kamakura’s Presentation to the 2022 IACPM Spring Conference
There is No Free Lunch: How Portfolio Managers Need to Adapt to a Shifting Macroeconomic Paradigm Martin Zorn May 19, 2022...
GAIL—Guaranteed Automatic Integration Library in MATLAB: Documentation for Version 2.3
Authors: Sou-Cheng T. Choi, Yuhan Ding, Fred J. Hickernell, Lan Jiang,Lluís Antoni Jiménez Rugama, Da Li, Jagadeeswaran...