Why use Ascend Advisory Services?

• With decades of experience, our team helps to improve decision making, communication, manage risk and maximize efficiency.
• We can serve as "peaking resources" to augment staff and perspective for fast and effective solutions leveraging our extensive data infrastructure and analytic solutions.
• Benefit from regular or ad-hoc support services, ranging from enhancing decision analysis to risk policy benchmarking and educational services.
• Receive expert support from our quantitative analysts and take advantage of our data offerings and advanced modeling capabilities to gain a competitive edge on asset and contract valuation, pricing and strategic decisions.
• Ascend experts can add a new dimension to your operations, regardless of whether you are at the early stages of building analytics capability or you are looking for benchmarking, independent assessments or improvements on existing processes and practices.
• Analyze earnings variability and determine the optimal operating and hedging strategies to support portfolio management decisions that meet or exceed budgeted cash flows taking into account the key physical and financial portfolio drivers in a coherent way.

Saas + Service: Collaborative Advanced Engagement for PowerSIMM Users

Under the advance engagement, Ascend works collaborative with customers to execute studies and provide position and risk reporting. This solution allows for delivery of standard reports and custom outputs with extra bandwidth of ad-hoc analysis.

Ascend also provides advice on internal portfolio management findings, and expert input on strategy and hedging programs.

Ascend also assists with risk and portfolio management training sessions, and collaborative support in portfolio and risk management activities.

Full Service: Portfolio and Risk Management Outsourced Services

Our advisory level services allow companies have access to leading edge analytical capabilities to support better portfolio and risk decisions by outsourcing time and resource-intensive activities and having access to our subject-matter experts and experienced analysts.

Ascend professionals can bring efficiency and speed without the expense of recruiting and training analytic staff. By relying on Ascend's analytics platform, data and extensive expertise, some clients such as community choice aggregators and municipal power entities can retain lean commercial and risk management teams and reduce overall operating expenses.

Ascend offers a client orientated partnership for comprehensive portfolio and risk management solutions tailored to meet client's needs. Ascend's experienced analysts can create and deliver position and risk reports with key portfolio insights and recommendations. Ascend also provides ad hoc analytic projects for business operations and compliance.

Some clients under this service level also rely on Ascend's data offerings, including weather, system load, ISO and Forward Curve harvested from publicly available sources as well as proprietary fundamental market projections for main ISOs. Other portfolio and risk management advisory services include portfolio and hedging strategy collaboration, risk policy review, design and benchmarking as well as our comprehensive educational services.

Advisory Service Levels: Collaborative and Advanced Engagements