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by Fabrizio Casaretto (Author)
Uncontrolled risks may lead to disaster. Uncertainties in prices should be managed in line with needs that are not uncertain.Starting with some educational information, then through Commercial and Financial practice examples, this book explains that by eliminating some risks, strong commercial activities and investments can be made and a solid future can be built. Fabrizio Casaretto, an Italian and French Levantine native to Istanbul, received his degree in Econometrics in France. After a brief experience in insurance, he broke into the world of Commodity Trading with Cargill. After several years of trading physical products and hedging with derivative tools, he has moved into the Energy sector to trade Fuels. Working in Turkey, a market with high volatility in commodity prices and currencies, he has mastered his hedging skills. Eventually, he made founding partner to a portfolio management company.Currently, Casaretto trades solid fuels and provides risk management consultancy to industries and trading companies. He is also a private consultant in derivative markets to a law firm and an instructor at a local University. He has decided to write this book in order to share his knowledge with professionals in commodity and financial markets, and also to be helpful to students aiming a career in this field."Learning financial risk management has become a prerequisite to protect your money in volatile financial markets, or at least to limit the losses you might incur.(...) This book will take the reader beyond financial literacy." Ali Agaoglu / Columnist, Vatan Newspaper"This is a wonderful guidebook on using complicated financial instruments such as derivatives instruments, which are more and more commonly encountered in our risk-laden world. (...)"Prof. Dr. Erdinc Altay / Istanbul University, Faculty of Economics"Futures and options contracts are the sine qua non of Risk Management, (...) this book has filled an important void in this area."Mustafa Yaman Basaran / Former Deputy General Manager of Futures and Options Exchange (VOB)
