Opportunities Abound for Commodity and Energy Firms

The pace of change in the commodity markets has been exceptional in recent years. Factors such as growing demand, increased competition, regulatory changes and volatile prices have presented significant challenges and exciting opportunities to market participants. We’ve also seen an emphasis on developing better and more cost-effective solutions to manage risk, while simultaneously maximizing return on assets.

Our clients in the commodity and energy sector are focusing on the following areas:

• Increasing earnings from trading operations
• Translating the perceived value of assets into earnings
• Creating a culture focused on risk-adjusted decision making
• Increasing performance without taking speculative risk
• Viewing risk exposure across a portfolio on a trade by trade basis
• Easily quantifying exposure to all counterparties across all subsidiaries
• Rapidly entering new markets
• Quantifying risk across a diverse and global physical portfolio

With our deep expertise in the commodity and energy markets and our understanding of the operating environment and underlying issues, we are uniquely able to help firms address these challenges. We offer a flexible and practical approach to managing the entire transaction lifecycle in commodity trading for all major participants, including integrated oil and gas companies, utilities, investment banks, hedge funds, trading companies, intermediaries and exchanges.