End Users' Guide to Risk Management and Derivatives

Preface
Acknowledgements
CHAPTER 1 Risks in Markets
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Currency Risks
1.3 Commodity Risks
1.4 Interest Rate Risk
1.5 Thought for Decision Makers

CHAPTER 2 Exposures in Debt
2.1 Currency Risk
2.2 Interest Rate Exposure in Debt

CHAPTER 3 The Floating Rate Problem
3.1 Background and Debt
3.2 Risk Appetite
3.3 Hedge Products
3.4 Decision
3.5 Historical Outcome and Cost Comparison
3.6 The Risk Management Discussion

CHAPTER 4 The Cost Control Move
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Managing Debt Cost
4.3 LIBOR Movements in 2004 and 2005
4.4 Cost Control Move
4.5 Impact of Fresh Market Dynamics
4.6 Risk Management Discussion

CHAPTER 5 A “Hedged” Bet
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Debt-Related Planning
5.3 Hedging Strategy
5.4 Hedge Execution
5.5 Market Movements and Impact on Debt and Derivative
5.6 Value of DCLF’s Swap
5.7 Risk Management Discussion

CHAPTER 6 Not So Crude
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Relationship with Markets
6.3 Exposure Management: 2004–2006
6.4 Events in 2006
6.5 Aftermath of 2006 and Entry of Niran
6.6 Strategy Implementation Plan
6.7 Implementation of New Hedge Programme
6.8 Performance of the Hedge Programme
6.9 Subsequent Market Events and Impact on HYC
6.10 Board Review
6.11 Niran’s Review
6.12 Risk Management Discussion

CHAPTER 7 A Sweet Tale
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Sugar Country
7.3 Sourcing the Raw Material
7.4 Sugarnomics
7.5 Exposures at White Sugar Ltd
7.6 Preparing a Strategy
7.7 Sugar Hedge Programme
7.8 The Risk Management Discussion

CHAPTER 8 For Your Breakfast
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Business Overview
8.3 Nature of Risks
8.4 The Hedge Programme
8.5 The Risk Management Discussion

CHAPTER 9 From Carrying to Being Carried
9.1 Introduction
9.2 The Internal Audit
9.3 Risk Management Discussion
9.4 What Happened Next?

CHAPTER 10 The Friendly Coefficient
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Business and Financing
10.3 Hedging at FNKT
10.4 The Risk Management Discussion

CHAPTER 11 In Business of the Uncertain
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Exposures and Risks
11.3 Risk Mitigation Plan: The Discussion with Board
11.4 Executing Options Programme
11.5 Evaluation of Options Programme
11.6 The Risk Management Discussion
11.7 Risk Management and Governance

CHAPTER 12 Live Wire
12.1 Introduction
12.2 NCCI’s Financials
12.3 Copper Concerns
12.4 Natsuki’s (NCCI) Response to Challenges
12.5 The Deal
12.6 Understanding NCCI’s Derivative Contract
12.7 Risk Management Discussion

CHAPTER 13 Long-Term Exposures
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Risks and Management
13.3 RiMG Strategy
13.4 Risk Management Discussion

CHAPTER 14 The Buying Decision
14.1 Introduction
14.2 The Risk
14.3 Derivative Suitors
14.5 The Deals
14.6 Rise in Exposure, Fresh Strategies and Need for More Derivatives
14.7 Getting behind the New Derivatives
14.8 Life of Derivatives and the Finale
14.9 The Risk Management Discussion

CHAPTER 15 Save the Principal
15.1 Introduction
15.2 The Debt
15.3 Hedge for Principal Payment I
15.4 Hedge for the Final Principal Payment
15.5 Outcomes
15.6 The Risk Management Discussion

CHAPTER 16 Bonds of Concern
16.1 Introduction
16.2 General Bank and Interest Rate Concerns
16.3 Preparing Strategies
16.4 Strategy Implementation
16.5 Valuation of Liability Derivative
16.6 A Year Later
16.7 The Risk Management Discussion

CHAPTER 17 The Juggernaut
17.1 Introduction
17.2 Physical Trading
17.3 Paper Trading
17.4 Treasury
17.5 Risk Office
17.6 Escapades and Ameliorations
17.7 Derivatives Portfolio and Events in 2015
17.8 New Strategies
17.9 Sample Derivatives from OPH’s Trading Book Portfolio
17.10 Getting Behind the SPs
17.11 Risk Office Revisited

Summary
Review Questions
Notes
Bibliography
Index