Risk Management in Commodity Markets`for Policy Makers

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22 Apr 2010
Unit: Wageningen Business School
Risk Management in Commodity Markets`for Policy Makers
A practical course on the use of commodity futures & options

Brussels 22 – 23 April 2010

This two day course focuses on how commodity futures and options can be used by farmers and the commodity industry to effectively manage risk. This course provides participants insight in risk management strategies with futures and options contracts that yield high hedging effectiveness and will provide strategies that can be used to capitalize on changes in price relationships. By means of examples and guest lecturers by professionals who are authorities in their respective fields participants will experience and learn how commodity futures and options can be used effectively. In addition, the course will relate the use of futures contracts to policy measures: are futures and options complements or substitutes for policy measures? Read more
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