articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . june 2016 hiddenlevers type private industry financial advice personal finance software founded 2009 headquarters new york new york key people raj udeshi co founder ; praveen ghanta co founder products web application number of employees 7 1 website http www.hiddenlevers.com hiddenlevers is a financial technology company located in new york city . it provides financial advisors and professional traders with web based tools to assess macro risks and stress test portfolios . 2 contents 1 history 2 products and services 2.1 how it works 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit hiddenlevers is a self funded startup company founded by praveen ghanta and raj udeshi . founded in october 2009 the company aims to provide macro research and risk management tools that take advantage of econometric data . 2 in early 2010 hiddenlevers moved its operations to the varick street incubator run by the new york city economic development corporation and nyu poly . 3 the company debuted the tool at finovatefall 2010 2 and since then hiddenlevers has been featured in several financial industry trade publications . 2 4 5 in 2010 hiddenlevers also began writing economic commentary for seekingalpha 6 business insider 7 and morningstar . 8 as of june 2011 hiddenlevers had over 100 financial professionals involved in a paid beta test program and a full scale launch by the end of 2011 . 5 products and services edit hiddenlevers s services focus on two key areas research and risk management . 2 the macro trend screener research tool offers a bottom up approach to help advisors find stocks etfs mutual funds and currencies that are positively or negatively correlated with any of the economic indicators within hidddenlevers . 4 the portfolio stress test is a risk management tool that runs any given portfolio against all of hiddenlevers s scenarios . the test searches for the scenarios that the report is most vulnerable to and displays the results and hedging strategies for each portfolio in a pdf . 2 in addition to these core services hiddenlevers offers access to aggregated economic data embeddable charts 5 and advisor webinars . 9 how it works edit hiddenlevers s model consists of two levels a regression model that calculates relationships between every economic lever and every asset and an intelligent filtering process that separates correlation from causation . 10 hiddenlever s regression model runs the stock s percentage return against the s & p 500 s return and an economic indicator s return . the basic form of the equation looks like asset return a lever return b s & p return c all statistically significant results from the regression analysis are used to drive the investment lever relationships throughout hiddenlevers . 10 the intelligent filtering process takes place in four steps . first hiddenlevers creates a detailed proprietary industry list . then stocks are mapped to relevant industries . afterwards causal relationships are determined between economic levers and industries and the levers are mapped to relevant industries . finally the mappings are used to filter regression data . 11 see also edit scenario analysis financial risk management risk modeling stress testing references edit 1 crunchbase . retrieved 2014 06 02 a b c d e f harnessing econometric data to build better portfolios financial advisors . retrieved 2011 06 28 varick street incubator nyu poly . retrieved 2011 06 28 a b technology helps advisers tap insight on global scale investmentnews . retrieved 2011 06 28 a b c how hiddenlevers is using the web to bring wirehouse type economic analysis to rias riabiz . retrieved 2011 06 28 about hiddenlevers seekingalpha . retrieved 2011 06 29 authors hiddenlevers business insiders . retrieved 2011 06 29 . authors hiddenlevers morningstar . retrieved 2011 06 29 . hiddenlevers hiddenlevers . retrieved 2011 06 29 a b a bit more on how the hiddenlevers core model works investment news . retrieved 2011 06 29 . hiddenlevers how it works hiddenlevers . retrieved 2011 06 29 . external links edit hiddenlevers retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title hiddenlevers & oldid 726263698 categories companies based in new york citycompanies established in 2009risk management companiespersonal financehidden categories orphaned articles from june 2016all orphaned articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version 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