Risk management through financial futures represents the most significant innovation of the past two decades
— Merton Miller, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics (1990)

We are at the forefront of developing innovative risk management instruments and strategies for firms in the commodities sector. 

Our ACTIVITIES

ComRisk specialises in developing applied risk management tools and strategies for firms with large commodity input and output positions. To achieve this, we collaborate intensively with internationally leading academic partners in order to co-create new and innovative products with a sound scientific foundation.

We assist and accommodate clients where needed with shaping and implementing their risk management strategy. This not only helps firms to use the correct tools and methodology to pursue and execute an effective risk management strategy (e.g. taking hedging positions in the market), but also allows executive managers to accurately evaluate existing contract partnerships, significantly improving the bargaining power of the firm.


Hedging Expertise and advice

For agribusiness companies, ComRisk offers a pay-per-use or subscription based service package through which hedging expertise is delivered, consisting of tailor-made, company-specific hedging parameters that cover exact firm needs.

This package could for example consist of the right hedging ratio, optimal hedging efficiency and other parameters required to calculate a particular cross hedge when necessary.

Please contact us for a personal quote.

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Hedging Exploration

Find out which specific instruments you can use to hedge your physical flow in spot market transactions


Hedging Parameters

A successful hedge requires knowledge of your specific hedging ratio and basis


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IFRS-9 EXPERTISE

Our tools are in accordance with IFRS-9 to provide you with the required parameters to use International Financial Reporting Standards hedge accounting within your firm


Hedging Demo’s

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Dairy Hedging

Check out our interactive page on how we hedge Gouda Cheese using a combination of Skimmed Milk Powder and Butter on the European Energy Exchange

 
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DDGS Hedging

In this demo we hedge DDGS Iowa Western by using combinations of Chicago Wheat and Corn and Chicago Corn and Soybean Meal


DASHBOARDS

Dashboards provide the user with powerful insight to further decision making within an organisation. Our custom tailored risk management dashboards employ an econometric foundation to quantify risk and other parameters for management to make better decisions.

Examples

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Foward price curve

Make an assessment (forecast) of the price level of your cash commodity in the future

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Futures Prices Overview

Stay up to date with commodity futures prices, converted to € per metric tonne

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Farm Risk Management Dashboard

This dashboard was developed to show how a farmer can review business decisions with respect to the effect on his or her’s farm gross margin distribution


other services

Risk Measures

Quantify your risk in a deal


Live adjustments

Use forecasting modelling to estimate new profit distributions when fixing input and output parameters