Ascend Improves Aircraft Valuation Tracking.New product shows narrowbody values worse hit than post-September 11(th) However, some widebody lease rates show exceptional over-performance LONDON & NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- The latest economic downturn has severely affected the aviation industry. For some segments, specifically for older narrowbody aircraft, the impact has been more dramatic even than after the September 11th attacks On September 11, 2001, in the deadliest case of domestic Terrorism in the history of the United States, a group of 19 terrorists hijacked four U.S. airliners for use as missiles against targets in New York City and Washington, D.C. , according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. global aviation specialist Ascend. Identifying new opportunities and managing risk on existing exposures in the aerospace sector requires the most detailed data on how aircraft values develop over time. But understanding aircraft value fluctuations in order to assess opportunities and mitigate risk has long been a challenge for organizations that buy, finance and manage aviation assets. Ascend's new Values Analyzer, released today, incorporates historical base and market values and lease rates for each year of build for 45 types of aircraft, and projects base values and base lease rates into the future, providing more rigorous criteria on which to base key metrics metrics Managed care A popular term for standards by which the quality of a product, service, or outcome of a particular form of Pt management is evaluated. See TQM. . It provides a range of options to extract and understand value trends in the aircraft market, essential to practitioners in the aviation trading, insurance and finance markets. It allows companies to conduct more effective risk management, and for banks, it supports the Internal Ratings-Based Approach to Basel II Basel II is the second of the Basel Accords, which are recommendations on banking laws and regulations issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. The purpose of Basel II is to create an international standard that banking regulators can use when creating regulations regulatory capital requirements Capital requirements Financing required for the operation of a business, composed of long-term and working capital plus fixed assets. . "Values Analyzer combines historical, current and future values, providing new ways to confidently review market performance and to better estimate future valuation behaviour. This gives our customers the information and confidence to make better informed decisions regarding the potential risk or opportunity of activities in the aviation market," says Andy Golub of Ascend's Risk Advisory Division. "Our current data shows that values for many narrowbody types have fallen out of the sky [please click here for graph], while certain widebodies have fared much better through this recession. In fact, lease rates for Boeing 767-300ER and Airbus A330 are showing exceptional over-performance." Tailored specifically in response to customer requests, Ascend's Values Analyzer provides reliable and impartial Favoring neither; disinterested; treating all alike; unbiased; equitable, fair, and just. insights into global aircraft values, providing benchmark analysis and identifying investment opportunities in the aviation market. It provides users with the key metrics to understand aircraft values: * Year over year value changes and volatility * Aircraft depreciation rates and expectation of value retention by age * Market value/base value ratios and market strength/softness indicators * Lease rate factors These are essential for the following applications: * Risk management including modeling Basel II regulatory capital requirements * Evaluating exposure on specific aircraft loans and investments * Developing a macro snapshot on the state of the current market * Comparisons to previous market cycles, peaks and troughs * Forecasting the direction and velocity of market trends * Benchmarking asset classes/types * Examining relative value between comparable aircraft at various stages in the production cycle About Ascend Ascend (www.ascendworldwide.com) is the world's leading provider of specialist information and consultancy services to the global air transport industry. For over four decades it has supplied the most reliable, trusted and up-to-date aviation industry information and insight available anywhere. Today, all Ascend's market-leading products and services are built to deliver decision-support information, insight and consultancy across a wide spectrum. Offerings include: * Aviation fleet information * Valuations and appraisals * Technical and commercial solutions * Market analysis * Airport Economics * Air safety * Space analytics From aircraft manufacturers to operators, financiers, lessors and suppliers, the aviation industry relies on Ascend to help make informed decisions and capture new opportunities. Ascend is based in London with offices in New York and Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. . |
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