JCRA provides Financial Risk Management and Structured Finance services. Through the use of structured hedging strategies JCRA helps clients generate improved profitability. The service is tailored to the unique circumstances of each client.

   Interest rate risk
   Foreign exchange risk
   Property risk
   Inflation risk

JCRSF provides totally independent advice on the viability of alternative forms of finance. Apart from bank debt, JCRSF has developed a specialist knowledge of financing through securitisation.

JCRA provides an independent valuation and benchmarking service, ensuring that clients benefit from the best return available to suit their needs.

Property risk

Although the market has been quiet over the summer, positive steps forward have included the first trade on a sub-sector index and news that one of the largest surveyors and fund managers, Jones Lang Lasalle, have allocated resources to the market. There have also been rumours that the first trade on a European index is not that far away. Liquidity remains a problem since most property companies have so far been reluctant to take positions on the index. However the market has developed owing to the participation of US investment banks and hedge funds. A number of 'look-alike' indices have recently been provided by the likes of Goldman Sachs to allow trading on a non-matched basis, however questions have been raised as to the reliability of the underlying property pools. JCRA continues to provide strategic advice, cashflow analysis and assistance in both implementation an supporting documentation.