Stateside summit

Adding to the success of Energy Risk Europe in March, last month’s Energy Risk USA conference raised some lively debate. ERM, credit risk and the problems facing quant analysts were among the hot topics. Oliver Holtaway reports

Energy Risk’s ninth annual conference took place last month in Houston. A close-to-capacity room of delegates heard from an array of speakers, with enterprise-wide risk management and approaches to price modelling emerging as the strongest themes. The Houston skies had treated early arrivals on Sunday to a literally thunderous reception, but concern over the hedge fund industry’s growing presence in energy cast a different type of shadow over the conference: delegates were keen to