Money Matters:
Discovering Hidden Risks and Intangible Values

Like a mob of desert meerkats alert to any near danger, investors in the global equity markets often take fright too easily these days. They are spooked mostly by bad, partial, or incomplete information. Part of the mission of the AHC Group is to rectify that unfortunate state of affairs: throughout our 25-year history, we have been busily "filling in the blanks" for our Clients and Corporate Affiliates, showing them how financial and organizational risks can best be managed and brought to heel in a 21^st-century economy.

Intangibles are the ever elusive "alpha" factors of the new global equity market. Intangible assets such as brand recognition and management reputations are among the fastest growing drivers of business value.

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By the same token, intangible risks — rapidly evolving social, environmental, and governance expectations — are the fastest growing sources of threats to business value.

We offer several services designed to help clients manage these risks by:

• anticipating the financial, social, and environmental risk drivers that affect global firms;
• researching the investment trends that will determine the winners in the 21^st-century global economy; and
• developing strategic approaches to managing risk, seizing opportunity, and capturing the business value of superior management.

The result is a better hedged strategy for business growth and a more reliable approach to assessing future risk.

Our services include:

1. Strategic Partnerships with leading organizations and analysts who track today's risk drivers and evaluate management responses to risk. These partnerships include:
    
   • Innovest Strategic Value Advisors
     of New York, London, and Toronto

     The AHC Group provides our Corporate Affiliates with exclusive discounts on Innovest's diagnostic tools to help them better align corporate governance, EH&S, and CSR programs to the expectations of today's capital markets.
      

   • DNV (Det Norske Veritas), a leading international provider of services for managing risk

     This is a company on the cutting edge of developments that will help social capitalism come of age in the 21^st century, with a special focus on helping organizations define and implement their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategies.
      

2. AHC Senior Associate diagnostic reports and other timely publications, including:
    
   • Money Won't Manage Itself: On Rating Agencies and Ownership Societies, a diagnostic report by Dr. Bruce Piasecki — available for purchase as a downloadable PDF file for $19.95

     Social, environmental, and governance concerns are affecting corporate valuation and the cost of capital like never before. Dr. Piasecki, AHC Group President and Founder, tracks the rising influence of third-party organizations — such as ratings agencies and proxy tracking services — in shaping the relationship between corporations and investors.
      

   • Corporate Strategy Today, Issue #11: "Money Matters: Financial Risk, Stock Valuation Models, and the Emergence of Rating Organizations," available for purchase as a downloadable PDF file for $100.00

     This issue of our flagship publication — a biennial briefing on business strategy and corporate governance — offers in one place the best and most current thinking from the series of "Money Matters" workshops that AHC Group has held over the past three years.
      

   • Risk, Value & Trends Report, an in-depth analysis of the global equity market and its players

     This exclusive AHC Group Report offers a complete, detailed analysis of the equity market, risk & value drivers, and important money managers and rating agencies. Normally available for download in PDF format for $1,500 — NOW ON SALE FOR $795, including a private, one-on-one consultation with Dr. Piasecki and Alan Banks, co-authors of the Report.
      

   • World Inc., an examination of an important new stream within the turbulent waters of advanced capitalism — Social Response Product Development (SRPD)

     Dr. Piasecki's latest book (his sixth to date) uses the storyline of a few leading companies to underline the meaning and value of this significant and vital development in our capital markets and the investment community. Read these early endorsements of the book to gain some insight into the historic urgency of this topic.

 
Some International Currencies

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Rupia (Indonesia)

Krone (Norway)

Baht (Thailand)

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