Risk Management Strategies

Risk faces your business every day that it is in operation. Managing this risk can prove to be one of the more important tasks that you face. Modern techniques can help you better understand what sort of decisions you should be prepared to make.

Energy trading and energy derivatives may seem like a strange concept to some. We offer an explanation of how energy derivatives work and the role they play in risk management.

If somebody asked you what credit default swaps are, would you know the answer? This article offers an excellent primer on credit default swaps.

Sophisticated entrepreneurs hedge business risk by using financial instruments called derivatives. We take a look at how economic derivatives can protect entrepreneurs from drastic changes in a country's economic climate.

We provide a brief introduction to the concept of risk and return. After reading this article, you will have a good understanding of the risk-return relationship.

Derivatives are a type of financial instrument whose value is derived (hence the name of the security) on some sort of underlying asset or value. Derivatives can be used to hedge against an existing investment or be used to function as a form of insurance. This article focuses on weather derivatives.

Freight derivatives are growing in popularity as companies rush to hedge against dramatically rising or falling freight rates.

Insurance derivatives are financial instruments in which the value is determined by the performance of an underlying insurance risk or asset.

Risk management needs to be integrated into every facet of your operations. Entrepreneurs and small business owners have the luxury of being able to implement these systems at ground level. Learn why your small business should be concerned with risk now.

Should your business be purchasing inflation derivatives? In this article, we explain what inflation derivatives are and why buying inflation derivatives might be a smart move.