Risk management
Grow and protect your profits
If your business produces or consumes agriculture, forestry, and metals and mining commodities, you’re exposed to risks ranging from unseasonable weather to unexpectedly high prices. Market sentiment and multiple other complex factors contribute to an ever-shifting landscape, never more so than in recent years, when Covid-19 and a series of geopolitical crises highlighted the fragility of global supply chains.
To insulate your business from volatility, Fastmarkets can help you understand the tools that could help you mitigate or enhance your exposure to the commodities prices that drive your operational returns.
Our team will work with yours to uncover why, how, and what firms like yours hedge.
Our risk solutions director David Becker has put together an overview of a typical risk solutions consulting engagement. Download the presentation here.
Use Fastmarkets price data to settle against exchange-traded commodity derivative contracts
Fastmarkets lithium and cobalt futures contracts enable you access to risk management solutions as you make strategic business decisions
Using a wide range of commodities expertise, we can help you hedge targeted price exposure. We’ll help you evaluate a range of commodity prices that can impact your business and run scenario analysis so you can exploit opportunities and curtail any threats thrown at you.
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Fastmarkets has partnered with the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) to launch a series of cash-settled lithium, spodumene and cobalt futures contracts that will be settled against Fastmarkets assessments.
The Exchange for Physical (EFP) process in the futures market allows companies to manage commodity price risk by exchanging futures contracts for physical commodities, providing flexibility, price certainty, and operational efficiency.
Some equity investors view purchasing shares in a commodity producer as a proxy for an investment in the underlying commodity. In these cases, hedging commodity-price risk can hinder the investor’s expectations. While hedging commodity exposure might disappoint, some equity investors, debt investors, or lenders might appreciate more predictable cash flows. Corporate debt investors, who provide […]
How commodity procurement managers and producers can utilize self-insurance premiums to offset losses when no derivative market exists
Read the key takeaways from our recent pricing and hedging strategies for energy storage stakeholders webinar, with insights from experts including Fastmarkets’ own David Becker, Phoebe O’Hara and Renato Rostas
Volatile BRM prices can generate uneven profits and highlight the need for risk management
Our risk management experts will talk you through the tools that can identify the risks inherent in your business model and ways to mitigate those risks.