Foreword

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Foreword

Contents
Contents

Foreword

Introduction

1.

Theory and Practice of Corporate Risk Management

2.

Theory and Practice of Optimal Capital Structure

3.

Introduction to Funding and Capital Structure

4.

How to Obtain a Credit Rating

5.

Refinancing Risk and Optimal Debt Maturity

6.

Optimal Cash Position

7.

Optimal Leverage

8.

Introduction to Interest Rate and Inflation Risks

9.

How to Develop an Interest Rate Risk Management Policy

10.

How to Improve Your Fixed-Floating Mix and Duration

11.

Interest Rates: The Most Efficient Hedging Product

12.

Do You Need Inflation-linked Debt?

13.

Prehedging Interest Rate Risk

14.

Pension Fund Asset and Liability Management

15.

Introduction to Currency Risk

16.

How to Develop Currency Risk Management Policy

17.

Translation or Transaction: Netting Currency Risks

18.

Early Warning Signals

19.

How to Hedge High Carry Currencies

20.

Currency Risk on Covenants

21.

Optimal Currency Composition of Debt 1: Protect Book Value

22.

Optimal Currency Composition of Debt 2: Protect Leverage

23.

Cyclicality of Currencies and Use of Options to Manage Credit Utilisation

24.

Managing the Depegging Risk

25.

Currency Risk in Luxury Goods

26.

Introduction to Credit Risk

27.

Counterparty Risk Methodology

28.

Counterparty Risk Protection

29.

Optimal Deposit Composition

30.

Prehedging Credit Risk

31.

xVA Optimisation

32.

Introduction to M&A-related Risks

33.

Risk Management for M&A

34.

Deal-contingent Hedging

35.

Introduction to Commodity Risk

36.

Managing Commodity-linked Revenues and Currency Risk

37.

Managing Commodity-linked Costs and Currency Risk

38.

Commodity Input and Resulting Currency Risk

39.

Offsetting Carbon Emissions

40.

Introduction to Equity Risk

41.

Hedging Dilution Risk

42.

Hedging Deferred Compensation

43.

Stake-building

A word of advice: it’s always better to agree to write the foreword to a book that will have little success than one that will be popular with readers. In the first case, you’ll make the authors happy and that will be that, but for the second they’ll ask you to write new prefaces for each new edition and, as the book is successful, they’ll keep coming back for more! As evidenced by this second edition, The Handbook of Corporate Financial Risk Management has been successful because it has the rare quality of delivering what its title promises in a very clear and understandable way.

This new edition is not just the first edition with a quick fresh coat of paint, it is practically a new book, with 20 new chapters added by the authors. After reading them, you’ll be prepared to tackle topics such as deal contingent hedging in M&A transactions, hedge dilution risk or high carry currencies, do some stake building, have a view on your optimal cash position, etc. Over the years, managing financial risks has accounted for an ever-increasing share of the workload of any Treasurer or chief financial officer (CFO), and this is unlikely to change any time soon. Our world has become riskier

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