Heidi Lindahl, Marketing Manager
Apr 25, 20171 min read
HedgeStar to lead hedge accounting workshop at Cargill Risk Management’s annual Latin American Semin
HedgeStar and Valtin Capital have been invited to lead a hedge accounting workshop at Cargill Risk Management’s third annual Latin...
HedgeStar Marketing
Apr 1, 20174 min read
Dual Focus: Hedging Programs Need to Focus on Both Sides of the Income Statement
To frame the issue, we start with an appreciation that virtually all companies are in a spread business, where profit (i.e., the spread) equ
HedgeStar Marketing
Dec 6, 20165 min read
Hedging with Off-Market Swaps
While this minor disparity in the effective fixed rate, ex post, relative to its ex ante anticipated fixed rate would likely justify the ass
HedgeStar Marketing
Oct 1, 20166 min read
Derivatives' Valuations: Assessing Alternative Methodologies
The idea of valuing a derivative is reasonably straightforward, but the devil is in the details. The first concern is the notion of fair val
HedgeStar Marketing
Jun 1, 20162 min read
Designing A Proper Hedge: Theory Versus Practice
The article challenges conventional wisdom as to the form of the regression. Specifically, the traditional text book solution performs a reg
HedgeStar Marketing
Jun 1, 20166 min read
Hedging the Hedge: How Treasurers Can Decide How Much to Hedge
The benefit of derivatives shouldn’t be measured by the profit that they generate, but the possible trouble that they can avoid.
HedgeStar Marketing
Dec 1, 20156 min read
Implementing a Hedging Program: Building a Dashboard
With varying degrees of precision depending on the circumstances, futures, forwards and swaps serve to “lock in” prices that would otherwise
HedgeStar Marketing
Jan 1, 20159 min read
Evolution of Over-The-Counter Derivatives and Associated Accounting Concerns
When OTC derivatives are transacted on a bi-lateral basis between end-users and dealers, dealers quote bids and offers and end-users essenti
HedgeStar Marketing
Apr 2, 20135 min read
Hedging Interest Rate Exposures under the Dodd-Frank Regime
For enterprises that currently use interest rate swap contracts under an ISDA master agreement that stipulates bi-lateral collateral adjustm
HedgeStar Marketing
Dec 1, 20107 min read
Derivatives Basics
Each of these contracts is a contractual arrangement between two parties, whereby each party accepts an obligation to pay the other on the b