Risk management
Trading positions - August 2011
Energy Risk catches up with the latest appointments, promotions and departures in global commodity markets
SunGard’s Jackson moves to ICE
Ben Jackson, formerly senior executive vice-president of energy and commodities at technology vendor SunGard, has taken up a new role at the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE)
Sean Corrigan talks emerging market risks
Diapason Commodities's Sean Corrigan discusses Chinese hard landings, Mena unrest, the role of Opec, quantitative easing and the likely market reactions to a Greek default
Cutting edge – multi-scale volatility in commodity markets
This paper deals with volatility estimation in commodity markets. Piotr Grzywacz and Krzysztof Wolyniec note that energy commodities have many time (volatility) scales, which has dramatic implications for mean-reversion and volatility estimation. They…
WTI/Brent spread impacts commodity index returns
A re-balancing of indexes to include, or increase Brent weighting could be on the cards to combat sliding WTI/Brent spread, say index providers
Energy Risk – 2011 awards dinners - held in Houston & London
Energy Risk rewarded excellence at the recent rankings receptions held in Houston and London
Global economic ripple effect spreads to US power
Growing US coal exports and increased investor activity are linking traditionally domestic markets such as power to global economic events. Pauline McCallion finds out about this trend
Trading positions - July 2011
Energy Risk catches up with the latest appointments, promotions and departures in global commodity markets
Approaches to strategic risk for energy risk managers
Pauline McCallion looks at the challenges the energy risk manager faces when dealing with strategic risk
Grasp of investor trends now a necessity
With investor money in commodities at record highs, understanding investor trends and their impact on the market is becoming ever more important, writes Rebecca Hampson
Assessing nuclear risk in the aftermath of Fukushima
Financial losses stemming from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear reactor accident will likely match or exceed losses at banks during the financial crisis. The ripple effect is already being felt by power generators worldwide. Stephen Maloney identifies the…
Commodities Trading and Investment Summit: conference highlights
China, oil prices and the impact of regulation were among the topics hotly debated at Energy Risk’s inaugural Commodities Trading and Investment Summit held in Geneva last month. Ned Molloy reports
Profile: Anthony Belchambers – CEO, FOA
Derivatives regulation needs to better recognise that sustainable economic growth is risk dependent, says Anthony Belchambers, chief executive of the Futures and Options Association. A disproportionate regulatory response with unrealistic goals will…
GFI Group, Inc.
GFI Group, Inc. is a leading provider of wholesale brokerage, clearing services, electronic execution and trading support products, providing services to institutional clients for a range of fixed income, equity, commodity and financial products
Constellation's Boultwood talks ERM and stress testing
Brenda Boultwood of Constellation Energy talks about her approach to Enterprise Risk Management and stress testing
CFTC position limits: GFI's Cosgrove
Michael Cosgrove of GFI Energy talks position limits, real-time reporting and collateral posting
Energy end-user hedging: BASF's Gonzalez
Alejandro Gonzalez, senior commodities risk manager at the chemicals giant BASF, spoke at Energy Risk USA 2011 in Houston about his approach to hedging in a volatile environment
Valuing wind power: IPR-GDF Suez's Rajan
Karthik Rajan, senior director, strategy portfolio and risk management group at IPR-GDF Suez North America, discusses how elements of commodity risk management can be integrated into the valuation of long-term wind power portfolios
Enterprise risk management: John Wengler
Energy companies are only starting to discover the value of risk management skills and taking an enterprise-wide risk approach, says John Wengler
ICE Europe's commitment of traders reports welcomed by participants
ICE Futures Europe is publishing commitment of traders (COT) reports for its global commodity benchmark ICE Brent crude and ICE gas-oil futures
EFETnet, DTCC to set up commodity derivatives repository
A partnership between EFETnet and DTCC aims to create a global commodity derivatives trade repository, which will provide regulators one point of contact for trade data
Paul Hawkins new global head of commodities at Credit Suisse
Credit Suisse has hired Paul Hawkins as a managing director and global head of commodities, to join in August.