Our Philosophy and People
Our world-class reputation is testament to the outstanding quality of our people. Barrie & Hibbert has one of the largest teams in the world committed to the commercial development and delivery of the best stochastic models and calibrations. This team includes financial experts and academics, economists, mathematicians and actuaries, all working together to bridge the gap between financial market theory and practice.
As well as those who build, develop, deliver and support our models, we employ experienced market practitioners who know how to integrate and align our solutions to a specific client’s needs. This close engagement helps us to stay ahead in our ever-evolving marketplace and ensures that our clients reap maximum benefit from our solutions, services and knowledge transfer.
The outstanding level of our people’s expertise has established Barrie & Hibbert as one of the world’s leading experts because:
- We focus time and energy on the inputs and validation of the fundamental upfront decisions and principles to be set, helping our clients get the credible answer they are seeking.
- We have a consistent, structured approach that provides a basis for credible long-term analysis.
- The content and assumptions for our calibrations are frequently and regularly updated.
- We invest continually in our capability, our methods and breadth of global coverage.
- We provide an easy, data-enabled, ready-to-go, cost effective implementation process that does not require hundreds of additional hours spent on a big implementation project.
- Our solutions are not a ‘Black box’; we are transparent and provide full documentation of our solutions.
- We make every effort to share our knowledge and expertise throughout client engagements, helping our clients develop and retain their in-house knowledge.
- We are Independent. Our views and expertise are firm-independent and provide a useful benchmark for challenging internal views.
- We listen and deliver what clients need for their business rather than impose a generic solution that might not be the best fit for purpose.