Build a Index for Market Surveillance Say These Credit Risk Pros

FHLB San Francisco's counterparty credit team talks quantitative tools to track how traders and investors perceive creditworthiness.

From left: Abhinav Chadha, Bryan Brinkley, and Fanny Yung of FHLB San FranciscoPhotographer: Cayce Clifford for Bloomberg Markets

How do you stay on top of market perceptions of risk for the companies you care about?

A systematic way to do it is to create a composite index of market and quantitative risk indicators. The right combination of fundamental data and trading signals could alert you early to adverse developments at companies that warrant further investigation.