Financial Strategies
Managing the ebb and flow of today’s market influences is more difficult
than ever before. Skill and experience are no longer the only determining
factors. Success demands information, huge amounts of it. More important
than the raw data, however, is the power to view it from many distinct
vantage points. Changing your perspective and your approach to trading is
of paramount importance in protecting your assets and creating new
opportunities as we look to the future. Financial Strategies works with
brokers and clients to distill those perspectives into profitable goals.
Financial Strategies Contact Information
Greg Putman, Senior Vice President - Head Financial Strategist (713) 435-4385
greg.putman@coastalsecurities.com
Jennifer Flores, Analyst (713) 435-4455
jennifer.flores@coastalsecurities.com
Mark LaRue, Analyst (713) 435-4382
mark.larue@coastalsecurities.com
Kenneth Young, Analyst (713) 435-4454
kenneth.young@coastalsecurities.com
Department Services
Portfolio Analytics Service
- A comprehensive set of analytical services designed to provide clients with the ability to address the multiple dimensions of bottom-up portfolio analysis related to improving portfolio risk/return profile, asset allocation decision, performance expectations, style bets, leverage decision and benchmark strategy.
- Market Value Detail Report summarizing the portfolio holdings.
- Market Sensitivity and Yield Performance Reports. These reports evaluate the price sensitivity and the yield performance of the portfolio under seven interest-rate parallel shift scenarios.
- A Total Return Report tracking bond and sector performance on a monthly or quarterly basis. Our return methodology satisfies the AIMR standard of return calculations.
- A monthly report displaying portfolio principal and interest.
Security Swap Program
- Swap proposals and breakeven analysis. The breakeven analysis basically displays the time it will take to recoup a loss from selling one security and swapping into another under the current interest rate environment.
- Brokers have access to this program for initial swap ideas. Once an idea has been run by the client then the broker should bring the swap to FSD for a detailed run with realistic actual bid and offer values to present the actual swap to the client.
SBA and USDA Prepayment Reports
- This program is available to all brokers and registered clients. It gives an extensive analysis of the historic CPRs on the above mentioned types of securities. This reports’ initial basis matches that issued by Bloomberg on the SBA Pools but then goes much further and allows the user to “slice and dice” the information in any number of ways so as to obtain the exact information required.
Portfolio Pricing Service
- A comprehensive portfolio pricing service which incorporates multiple pricing sources in combination with date and source documentation and a rigorous quality control procedure.
Portfolio Cusip Matchers
- This program runs automatically over each weekend to pull up any securities we are seeing from the street that match current portfolios that are in
CoastalView. Any match is emailed to the individual broker handling that account and should show up in their Inbox on Monday mornings.
Maturity Matchers and Daily Called Bond Report
- This program runs automatically each day to pull up any securities that have matured, are maturing or are expected to be called within the next month
that are currently listed in portfolios that are in CoastalView, TPG, or in trades they have transacted. Any match is E-Mailed to the individual broker
handling that account and should show up in their Inbox on a daily basis.
Portfolio Accounting Service
- A comprehensive portfolio accounting and inventory reporting service designed to meet the information needs of clients in the areas of portfolio accounting, securities inventory and management, regulatory reports, cash flow management and budgeting, and board reporting.
- The areas covered by these reports include: inventory holdings analysis and summaries, cash flow projections (including detailed P&I), interest rate risk, regulatory reports, FASB 115 portfolios, mark to market (pricing), pledging, safekeeping, maturity distribution and graphical analysis.
- Several report formats are available based on the type of institution and needs of the client. The packets are designed to meet the reporting needs of the portfolio manager, executive (or operations) manager, board or ALM committee, auditor, examiner (regulator) and accountant or CFO.
- Fee schedule waived for most Coastal clients.
Newman Portfolio Management Service
- A complete cash flow and yield analysis for Mortgage Backed Securities and SBA Pools.
Market Information
- Monthly printed newsletter detailing economic and financial events.
- Weekly market updates available on our website at www.coastalsecurities.com
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