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Who We Are

Investor Risk Management Incorporated is an international research, analysis, and support firm for the investment banking, venture capital, hedge fund and valuation industries. Our products and services include credit analysis, due diligence reports, market research, industry research, industry analysis, deal assessment, backroom services, and business valuation support,as well as a host of services to the direct investment community. We provide rapid reaction services for hedge funds, web-based deal analysis and tracking tools, and credit risk analysis tools for diverse applications, as well as a full suite of services for business valuation professionals

Investor Risk Management operates facilities or subsidiaries in the USA, United Kingdom, Singapore, Indonesia, Russian Federation, with liaison offices throughout the world. With headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee, we enjoy unfettered access to a Federal Deposit Research Library. Our relationships with academia throughout the nation ensure that we can provide the best answers available.

Since 1994, we have been serving large international investment banks under long-term basic ordering agreements, as well as agencies of the US government and corporate clients. Since 2000, we have been serving selected business appraisers with backroom services; these clients believe the business valuation community at large would benefit from access to our resources, knowledge, expertise and responsiveness. In 2005, at the request of some business appraisers, Investor Risk Management launched the Business Valuation Support Services division.

 

Organization and Basic Policies

Our competitive advantage is that we can deliver exceptionally high-quality services that are 'value-priced' in the market. We can do this because we operate like an 'information processing factory' -- we methodize work, hire and train for the workstations, and process the work just like Henry Ford built his vehicles. We are not organized as a professional practice, nor do we operate like one. That said, we are exceptionally flexible because work passes from our specialists to our reviewers on a daily basis. You can choose from a wide range of standard or custom services, almost always at a fixed price.

Our Basic Policies are:

  • We are committed to giving you the best product in the market for the price you pay. If this means a little extra effort on our part, we don't mind. We footnote our reports extensively, so that all statements and conclusions are readily documented. We annotate Excel analysis files with what we did and why. If there are adjustments, we explain them and why they were taken. There is no mystery in what we deliver.

  • We archive all our work, and everything we receive from customers. This is for our clients' protection and for ours. We can retreive and explain analyses and research we performed 10 years ago, as we thoroughly document all our work. We havefunctioned as a credit rating service in some parts of the World, which makes us exceptionally careful about our records and our sources. We have never had even a threat of litigation against us for our work, or for any other reason. If you are in litigation support, please tell us, and we will send on an archive (zip file) with all the references we used.

  • We operate to the highest ethical standards. We do not disclose the fact that we work for any particular clent, unless we are specifically authorized to do so. We do not disclose the work we have done for others, unless specifically authorized to do so. If our client sends us something, we consider it their sole property for use only on their work. You can be assured of absolute privacy and safety in working with us.

  • We do not disclose our contact lists, nor do we spam. Our advertising and promotion is designed to be principally by direct contact with our clients, who are businesses or sole practitioners operating in investment or financial services. We have built our contact lists from publicly available sources --- we rarely if ever purchase lists.

  • If anyone finds an problem with our work, we fix it for free, many times even if it was not our fault. We want customers to be happy with the work we provide. If, after the fact, we find an improvement in our work, we will let you know right away.

  • We retain the copyright for our work, but the client gets the use of it for valuation engagements. This is principally to ensure that our work is for your use but cannot be freely disseminated, resold, or published on the Internet.

We do not outsource any of our effort, nor do we use third parties. All our offices are owned and operated by Investor Risk Management, Inc. -- we choose and manage the staff, the policies, the training, the workflow, and can therefore be fully responsible for the results. This is the way we have found to ensure security and a high standard of work quality.

Our Staff

Our staff are professionals in wide variety of fields. All receive training in a common body of knowledge in valuation principles and practices, as well as investment analysis, market research, industry research, financial analysis, statistics and survey sampling, econometrics, and economics. We maintain a staff CFA's, CPAs, experts in market research, retailing, marketing, food processing, construction, automotive industries, light manufacturing, and a host of other disciplines, to ensure the best quality work that comes from the synthesis of expertise and training.

Our staff is global, which means some work may be done by our overseas offices. How much depends on the particular assignment, and where our resident experts have chosen to live. Our foreign content is generally less than the automotive industry in the United States, which means that when you buy a new Lexus, you've purchased more foreign value-added than when you buy a product from Investor Risk Management.

 

Our Clients

Past and current clients that we can freely disclose, or are in the public record, include:

  • USG Corporation

  • European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

  • Chase-Flemings

  • The World Bank

  • Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)

  • The US Commercial Service

  • Sachen LB

  • Togliatti Azot

  • Gorky Avtomobile Zavod

  • Sun Foods, Inc.

  • Air Moldova

Valuation Support Services Clients (that have given us express permission to disclose) Include:

  • Trenwith Group, LLC

  • Mel H. Abraham, CPA, CVA, ABV, ASA

  • Gregory J. Ksicinski, CPA/ABV, MST, Suby, Von Haden & Associates, S.C.

  • Framrose Patel, CPA, CVA, CMA

  • David Carlisle, President, Niche Marketing (see his recommendation)

  • Alan Karbousky ASA, CFA

  • Christopher R. Petty, CPA, CVA

  • AGM and Associates, Andrew Minstein, CPA/ABV

  • Robert Morris BCB, CBI, ARG Evaluations Group

  • James R. Palmer CBA, AIBA, CMEA, BVAL, CBC

  • European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

  • Gaylene A. Stingl, MST, CPA, CVA, Suby, Von Haden & Associates, S.C

  • Brown Appraisal Company

     

     

     

     
         

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