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Getting physical
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Steve Leppard

Steve Leppard is senior strategist at Gaselys

 
By Steve Leppard
Published on 10/11/2007
 
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Published in: Energy Risk
Publication year: 2004


Asset-backed trading strategies usually employ a combination of physical positions, which are subject to physical risk; and financial hedging intruments, which are not. Here, Steve Leppard shows how value-at-risk, applied to this combined risk scenario, can go a long way towards the thorny issue of hedging physically risky power generation assets.

Getting physical

Asset-backed trading strategies usually employ a combination of physical positions, which are subject to physical risk; and financial hedging intruments, which are not. Here, Steve Leppard shows how value-at-risk, applied to this combined risk scenario, can go a long way towards the thorny issue of hedging physically risky power generation assets.