Hedging

1.

Traditionally hedging refers to the process whereby a firm uses financial instruments (such as forward contracts, futures contracts or options) or other techniques to reduce the impact of fluctuations in such factors as the market price of credit, foreign exchange rates, or commodity prices on its profits or corporate value.

2.

More recently the application of hedging techniques has been extended to the management of many other risks including for example inflation and longevity risk arising in pension funds.

See also

• Arbitrage
• Authorisation
• Authority limits
• Basis risk
• Covering
• Delta hedging
• Foreign exchange forward contract
• Futures
• Hedge accounting
• Inflation risk
• Interest rate guarantee
• Longevity
• Option
• Outturn
• Overhedging
• Pre-settlement risk
• Risk management
• Speculation
• Uncovered
• Underhedging
• Warehousing

Other links

Stand Your Ground (Interest rate hedging), The Treasurer, 2008

Falling foul of currency hedging, John Grout, ACT 2009