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Weather to hedge: effectively managing your weather risk.
The winter of 2003-2004, of brisk winds and heavy snowfalls, brought the Northeast's major urban centers to a halt. A number of cities across the country suffered the largest snowfalls in recent history. As the snowfall and cold weather persisted, industrial facilities and businesses increased their energy consumption, leaving many companies financially unprepared to manage the costs of the unexpected energy demand.
High natural gas prices in the winter of 2004 underscore the vulnerability of business to weather-related energy costs. Energy managers need to prepare strategies for coping with the unpredictable fluctuations of weather. Resources to be found in the ...
- GuaranteedWeather Celebrates One-Year Anniversary With Renewal of Its Hannover...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire May 13, 2004 700+ words
...RQSI's purchase of the weather risk management system and assets of Kansas...support the resurgence of the weather risk management market in both the US and abroad." "The market for weather risk management has shown a significant...
- AIDING INDIA'S AGRI SECTOR WITH WEATHER RISK MANAGEMENT TOOLS.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News February 1, 2007 700+ words
...Aiding India's Agricultural Sector with Weather Risk Management Tools The Weather Risk Management Association Sponsors Feb Meeting in Mumbai...on India's agricultural sector, the Weather Risk Management Association (WRMA) is holding a seminar...
- RMS Launches Climetrix, the First Comprehensive Risk Management System for the...
- Press release article from: Business Wire July 12, 2000 700+ words
...Director of the RMS Weather Risk business unit. "We...beginnings in 1997, the weather risk market has grown rapidly...than $5 billion of weather risk has been transacted...6548. About RMS Risk Management Solutions (www.riskinc...
- Kemper Insurance and Aquila, Inc. Join Together To Expand Global Markets for...
- Press release article from: Business Wire May 1, 2001 700+ words
...formed a strategic alliance to expand the global market for weather derivatives and weather risk management products. "The market for weather risk management is large and growing," says Ed Mills, president of Aquila, Inc, adding, "we already...
- Taming mother nature: how weather risk management has helped offset the...
- Magazine article from: Risk Management Cooper, Valerie June 1, 2009 700+ words
...This was the genesis of a weather risk management industry that has since...in the early days of the weather risk management industry were derivatives...nearly a decade later, weather risk management is a $32 billion global...
- Weather Risk Management.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Journal of Risk and Insurance Launie, Joseph J. March 1, 2004 700+ words
...seems to view the area of weather risk management as a recent development...XL Capital is a provider of weather risk management products and "a recognized leader in the weather risk market." This book attempts...
- Ready for a 'WRMA' climate? The pace of global warming seems glacial compared...
- Magazine article from: Risk & Insurance Morris, Gregory D.L. January 1, 2006 700+ words
...the skies opened up for weather risk management deals, with the total face...PriceWaterhouseCoopers for the Weather Risk Management Association, the total face value for all weather risk management instruments in the 2004...
- Value of Weather Risk Management Contracts Reaches All-Time High; * Notional...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 10, 2004 700+ words
...10 /PRNewswire/ -- The Weather Risk Management Association (WRMA), the...trade organization of the weather risk management industry, today announced that the notional value of weather risk management contracts transacted from...