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Tag Archives: risk management
Businesses fear the proposals being considered by the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, would cut the long menu of futures and options contracts now available, making it more expensive or even impossible for companies to hedge their risks.
“Industries are pushing back against proposed European Union rules intended to limit the risks that derivatives may pose to the financial system.”
Jason Ruspini’s first guess about who is hedging on InTrade
His first guess: that firm. UPDATE
We will never have a perfect model of risk. — by Alan Greenspan
The most credible explanation of why risk management based on state-of-the-art statistical models can perform so poorly is that the underlying data used to estimate a model’s structure are drawn generally from both periods of euphoria and periods of fear, … Continue reading
Posted in Finance, The Global Economy
Tagged Alan Greenspan, econometry, Economics, Finance, risk, risk management, US economy
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Meet John Nafeh, the HedgeStreet brain.
HedgeStreet: Dr. John Nafeh – Director John Nafeh is the Founder of HedgeStreet. He combined his expertise in decision analysis and risk management, his experience guiding Internet-related start-ups, and his vision of an Internet-based mass market for risk-hedging financial instruments … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis (Industry), Exchanges & Markets, Finance, People
Tagged Apple Computer, database software, Director, Ford Aerospace, founder, General Electric, HedgeStreet, Internet-based mass market, John Nafeh, Managing Director, Mississippi, Pareto Partners, prediction markets, risk management, Stanford University, venture capital fund
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Keyword Of The Day: NETWORK EXTERNALITIES
Finance Markets (article written by Khurram Naik): [...] Futures exchanges are no longer simply markets, but for-profit businesses, and unlike most for-profit businesses or even most exchanges special considerations must be made. Futures contracts are not like stocks, which can … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis (Industry), Exchanges & Markets, Explainers, Finance
Tagged China, eBay, energy resources, mining, real estate derivatives, risk management
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Where do carbon credits trade in Europe?
- Wikipedia – Emissions trading: The European Union Emission Trading Scheme is the largest multi-national, greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme in the world. It commenced operation in January 2005 and all 25-member states of the European Union participate in the … Continue reading
Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Finance, Resources - References
Tagged Beijing, Brussels, Carbon Trust, China, commodities brokerage, energy, energy industry analysis, energy markets, Europe, European Union, greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme, Hamburg, India, Japan, Kiev, Latin America, London, low carbon, low carbon technologies, Manila, natural gas, New Delhi, New York, Norsk Hydro, Oslo, Point Carbon, risk management, risk-management advisory services, Southeast Asia, Sydney, TFS Energy, Tokyo, United Kingdom, United States, Washington D.C.
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Aluminium futures: To hedge, to decide… and what about forecasting?
Beyond Hedging: How Alcoa Relies on Futures as a Management Tool – by Kevin Anton – 2006-11-XX Alcoa is the largest aluminum company in the world. Its global operations run all the way from bauxite mines in Australia to smelters … Continue reading
Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Finance
Tagged Alcoa, Australia, executive, FI Magazine, Kevin Anton, North America, risk management
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