3 Steps to Growing Your Financial Advisory Practice With Portfolio Crash Testing
What is Risk Management? Risk management is top of mind for RIAs and their clients these days. No longer an exclusive province of quant managers, it is discussed regularly in...Read More
What you need to know about the Crash Rating in Portfolio Crash Testing
Crash Rating is a number used to measure the risk of a portfolio. It is a representation of the loss a portfolio may incur during our worst stress-testing scenarios. Here are...Read More
Video: Learn About Portfolio Crash Testing in 4 Minutes
Stress test your clients’ portfolios. Learn how to educate clients about risk/return tradeoffs. Gain new clients by showing prospects the risks that they face and the return potential in one...Read More
Risk Modeling in the Past and Future with Portfolio Crash Testing
The previous blog posts (From Client to CEO: Does Portfolio Crash Testing Really Work? & The Proof Is In The Pudding: How Portfolio Crash Testing Worked for Me.) in this...Read More
The Proof Is In The Pudding: How portfolio crash testing worked for me.
In the last post I discussed my history using Portfolio Crash Testing’s (PCT) big brother, Riskostat. Riskostat shares the same DNA with PCT, but Riskostat contains more features like risk factor...Read More
From Client to CEO: Does Portfolio Crash Testing Really Work?
At Larkspur-RiXtrema, we create great tools for advisors. Our tools combine quantitative rigor with user friendly interfaces and often, a measure of prospecting to help an advisor grow their business....Read More
14 Reasons Why Financial Advisors Should Use Portfolio Crash Testing
Portfolio Crash Testing (PCT) is different from all other stress testing systems (including those available to institutions) for numerous reasons. Our experts at Larkspur-Rixtrema, have put together a detailed list...Read More
Morningstar OfficeSM and RiXtrema Integrate: Seamless Portfolio Crash Testing to Benefit Platform Users
RiXtrema is now integrated with Morningstar OfficeSM, Morningstar’s practice and portfolio management system for financial advisors. Now, dual clients of RiXtrema and Morningstar will be able to pull any account...Read More
Modernizing Risk Management: AI-Powered Stress Testing for Financial Advisors
Most risk models assume returns follow a bell curve, but real-world crises defy this. During stress, correlations shift, diversification breaks, and losses compound unpredictably.
The Top Mistakes in Portfolio Risk Analysis (And How to Avoid Them)
Most risk models assume returns follow a bell curve, but real-world crises defy this. During stress, correlations shift, diversification breaks, and losses compound unpredictably.









