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EQECAT is committed to solving catastrophic risk business problems for clients in the real estate, finance, insurance and other business fields. Business problems often require greater flexibility than is available in standard natural catastrophe products. EQECAT works with clients to understand the nature of a problem necessary to develop innovative and customized solutions.

Innovative solutions from EQECAT include:

• Securitization Support: EQECAT leads the industry in providing all aspects of catastrophe analysis services to support public and private placement catastrophe bonds as well as SWAPS and POOLS. EQECAT offers a comprehensive set of capabilities to support issuers and investors in quantifying risk and assisting in the rating and marketing of these securities.

• Rate Filings: EQECAT has been highly effective supporting both earthquake and wind rate filings. Topmost in that regard was the CEA, which involved public rate hearings and a requirement that the model be declared "state of the art" by designated independent scientific and engineering experts.

• Portfolio Optimization Services: EQECAT developed highly sophisticated tools and techniques that help clients to effectively develop business strategies that optimize return on capital. Optimization studies can identify the best and worst region for geographic regions for growth, evaluate the attractiveness of an acquisition, divestiture or take out opportunity and identify the accounts that adversely impact use of capacity and profits.

• Customized Software: EQECAT develops customized software for many specialized lines of business and hazards. EQECAT developed customized underwriting systems for HPR writer, tailored vulnerability functions for selected geographic areas such as Japan and Taiwan, and developed tailored models for European floods, US winter ice storms and other hazards.

• Dynamic Financial Analysis: EQECAT provided Dynamic Financial Analysis services to help clients quantify and understand risk over multi-year planning horizons and for evaluating financial requirements for self-funding risk.

• Corporate Risk Management: ABS Corporate Solutions uses robust technology, extreme event modeling/simulation and risk management expertise available throughout ABS Group to assist major corporations in quantifying and managing their risk from natural and man-made hazards. This capability supports the implementation of similar techniques that the insurance industry utilizes to manage their exposure and levels the playing field through an independent view of risk. The ABS Corporate Solutions program is unique in that it is able to quantify a wide variety of business risk in financial terms or metrics that the corporate risk or financial manager can use to make more informed decisions in managing the firm's risk profile.