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Hedge Your Agricultural Product Price Exposures
Cocoa, Coffee, Cotton, Dairy, Grains & Oilseeds, Livestock, Lumber, Rubber, Sugar
Commodity Markets / Agriculture

Price fluctuations in volatile agricultural, dairy, and grain markets directly affect your cash flow, returns, and margins, which can negatively impact your EPS. Hedging can help mitigate this volatility, and keep you prepared for the future.

 

Common hedgeable agricultural products: Cocoa, Coffee, Cotton, Dairy, Grains & Oilseeds, Livestock, Lumber, Rubber, and Sugar.

Helping producers, consumers, manufacturers, and
investors protect their cash flow and returns.
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CTRM Success Story
  • Commodity volatility severely hampered the ability of Senior Executives to forecast corporate-wide Earnings Per Share (EPS) accurately.
  • This CPG Company implemented and leveraged the AEGIS CTRM to quickly input broker positions, reconcile, and run risk scenarios on unhedged portions of the company’s forecasts.
  • As a result of the partnership with AEGIS, this CPG Company decreased EPS volatility and improved its hedge program results. Workflows and approval processes were also utilized across multiple departments, which aligned with Sarbanes Oxley requirements. 

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Customer Fixed Price Agreements

QSR, CPG, and Retail customers have difficulty changing menu prices on the fly, so, therefore, in volatile commodity markets, they tend to request fixed price contracts with their suppliers. 

The dilemma is that sales is anxious to retain customers and honor fixed price agreements, but what happens when prices go wrong and erode your profit margins? 

AEGIS Hedging can effectively hedge all of these agreements of the leg into hedge strategies that will maintain and possibly increase margins. The managing of both sides of these agreements can be complex. However, AEGIS Hedging can help you continue offering fixed-price strategies, maintain market competitiveness, and meet your customer’s needs. 

 

Inventory Hedging

Is the value of your products in inventory below the current market price? 

AEGIS Hedging can help you lower inventory costs with a consistent hedge program. In addition, AEGIS Hedging has risk analysis tools that can help you with scenarios and what-ifs to help you manage inventory effectively. 

OTC Hedge Strategies

Are you entertaining adding OTC
type transactions to your hedge strategies?

Sometimes hedging with counterparties instead of exchanges with OTC hedges can more accurately represent your exposure. But unfortunately, there are more requirements around market data, MTM, and reporting. 

AEGIS Hedging has all the market data required, can MTM your transactions, and can help you with complex risk management and financial reporting. 

COOP Farmers Fixed Price Agreements

Do your farmer owners ask for fixed price agreements in the future that include terms, fixed prices, and even optionality? 

Many COOP farmer owners have been looking to their COOP to maintain a stable cash flow for their products and require fixed price agreements in this volatile market to do so.  

Keep your farmer owners committed and happy to stay competitive with your other local COOP's. AEGIS Hedging can help you offer agreements to all your owners, large or small, as well as longer terms and different strategies to navigate these volatile commodity markets. 
Case Study

Dairy Cooperative Replaces Antiquated System with AEGIS Platform

A leading dairy cooperative was utilizing an antiquated risk system that was expensive, difficult to maintain, and much of the processing was done manually outside the system in error-prone spreadsheets. AEGIS was able to bring their costs down significantly while providing more capabilities inside the AEGIS platform on newer technology. The coop is now integrated directly with its brokers and can manage trades across multiple broker accounts.

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Solutions

AEGIS integrates all hedging activities into
one connected experience.

 

Research

Exclusive insights delivering clarity on the factors driving prices to support smart hedging decisions.

Expert powered. Custom analysis on-demand.

What's Included?

Research

  • Daily market looks and alerts
  • Forward and settled pricing curves
  • Key factors driving pricing
  • Latest trading trends and recommendations
  • Proprietary hedge benchmarking
  • Client-only webcasts

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Trade

Tailored hedge recommendations coupled with efficient hedge execution upon your approval.

In the market. All the time.

What's Included?

Trade

  • Continuous hedge strategy evaluation
  • Proactive trading recommendations
  • Position and structure modeling
  • Market-leading online execution
  • Full access to trade history and analytics
  • Counterparty introduction and management

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Manage

SOC-certified operations enabling full hedge portfolio visibility, analytics, reporting, and compliance.

Back-office simplified. Continuous support.

What's Included?

Manage

  • Real-time hedge tracking and visualization
  • Accurate sensitivity-enabled valuations
  • Trade confirmation and settlement workflow
  • Alerts and proactive discrepancy resolution
  • Track lender and internal hedge restrictions
  • Secure position, data, and document storage

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No Implementation Fee

No Implementation Fees

Live in 24 hours

Live in 24 Hours

Robust Cybersecurity

Robust Cybersecurity

Cloud-based Technology

Cloud-Based Technology

Expertise

Expertise Included

 

Differentiators

AEGIS is the recognized industry leader because of our:

Technology

Unmatched Technology

We leverage technology to distribute information, improve execution, assess scenarios, and deliver actionable insights through web and mobile apps. And our investment is ongoing.
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Best Execution

We tailor recommendations to specific budgets, underwriting, lender covenants, and investor objectives – and partner with over 40 counterparties to arrive at fair value.
Insight

Unique Insight

The scale of our platform, a team dedicated to studying global commodity and rate markets, and an unmatched client base allow us to offer a unique perspective.
Focus

Complete Focus

It would be easy to pursue compromising activities and fee structures. We are 100% focused on capital and cash flow protection through fixed-fee contracts. No conflicts. Ever.

 

 500+

Entities

40+

Counterparties

75+

Sponsors and Lenders

15+

Years in Business

 

6x Global Leader as Hedging Advisory Firm

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