Newest HiddenLevers Fan: The Atlanta Fed

DECATUR, Ga., Oct. 22, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta invited HiddenLevers to be included in its Regional Economic Information Network. After almost a decade of consistently fresh economic insight by the HiddenLevers economic think-tank, the Atlanta Federal Reserve recognized the company's contribution by including HiddenLevers in their 2019 Beige Book analysis.

"When we saw HiddenLevers announce it was shifting its main offices from New York to Atlanta we knew this was a firm we wanted to talk to," said Rebecca Gunn, Senior Vice President and Regional Executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

HiddenLevers Founders Praveen Ghanta and Raj Udeshi met with Gunn to discuss hot-button domestic economic issues and give a deeper look into the War Room, a monthly program that highlights HiddenLevers economic research.

"It's humbling to be recognized by the Fed," said Udeshi. "The ongoing relationship between HiddenLevers and the Atlanta Fed will be reassuring for advisors and portfolio managers who use HiddenLevers scenarios to connect with the end investor."

Combating Fear Mongering

The Atlanta Fed and HiddenLevers agreed that the strong underpinnings of the US economy were drowned out by headlines that overemphasized downside outcomes in scenarios like Trade War or New Fed Hawks.

Gunn was impressed by the HiddenLevers Scenario Library, a comprehensive palette of forward-looking economic events, with infographics and simple language to help users understand the macro-risk parity of outcomes.

"Every economic topic in the zeitgeist today can have a good, bad, or ugly outcome tomorrow," said Ghanta. "The Fed pushed forward this paradigm of macro-risk parity in its stress testing of big banks, and that annual stress test is a popular scenario our customers use with smaller portfolios.  I am blown away that the Fed is taking notice of how we are extending their template for economic analysis."

Ghanta and Udeshi highlighted how RIAs, financial planners, and other professionals with a fiduciary duty use the HiddenLevers interactive toolkit to separate impactful economic events from momentary noise.

"Real fiduciaries are combatting sensationalist headlines from the financial media. It's good to show economic perspectives that put equal emphasis on upside and downside outcomes," said Udeshi. "Delivering a forward-looking perspective that is data focused and not overly committed to some doomsday is what HiddenLevers is all about."

Creating Dialogue

The econometrics regression engine inside HiddenLevers is institutional-grade, as evidenced by HiddenLevers engagements with corporate treasury teams needing to monitor risk and revenue across whole books of business.

Even with such strong quantitative bedrock, a big part of the company's success is due to its image-centric interface. This aligns with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's goals to enhance public trust through dialogue. With its hip scenario library and interactive stress testing, HiddenLevers users can contrast how client portfolios and their own allocation models react to different upside and downside macro conditions.

"Art direction is so important – it's what resonates with people because art tells what prose cannot. Not all of us are quants," said Udeshi.

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