At CRU Price Risk Management, our mission is to provide the information
and tools to help our clients prosper in a business climate characterized by uncertainty and risk.
Our customized consulting services include price risk process management, hedge techniques and strategic price strategies. Our consulting services are designed to give you a competitive advantage in your market sector.
Our decision support publications cover a wide range of critical information necessary to manage price risk and understand the global metals industries.
Common Price Risk Management problems
- Volatility of earnings
- Unexpected financial results
- Customer / supplier pricing pressure
- Unclear / ineffective performance reporting
- Ineffective controls and inadequate skills
Practical solutions
- Identify / quantify price risk exposures
- Design appropriate hedging strategies and tactics
- Provide pricing support for customer / supplier contracts
- Establish objectives and quantitative measurements
- Determine reporting and accounting compliance
- Provide focused training - risk management and metal markets
Our unique expertise
- Extensive and practical experience - markets, operations and finance
- Data driven approach - from initial assessment to result measurement
- Proven methodologies for the entire risk management process
- Ongoing decision support services - information, insight and tools
- Services tailored to individual company needs
- “Since 1993 we have been helping companies better understand
how price risk is created in their purchasing and sales functions,
and what actions they can take to reduce the impact of commodity
prices on their earnings. As part of our ongoing decision support,
we communicate to clients the price drivers that will influence
the price over time, and provide a sound databased framework
for risk decisions.”
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- James Southwood
President, CRU Price Risk Management
Download our Aluminum Price Risk Management brochure
(available in PDF format)
Download our Copper Price Risk Management brochure
(available in PDF format)
Read our 'Risk Factor' article published in Materials World June '09
For more information, please contact us directly...
Sabrina DiPasquale
Tel: +1 724 940 7100
Email sabrina.dipasquale@crugroup.com
Mailing address: 2000 Corporate Drive, Suite 200, Wexford, PA 15090