Hedge

PR&A is a company specialized in hedging consulting services for corporations. The services rendered by our consultants range from building and developing hedging policies (procedures) to the structuring of hedge operations (strategy and operation pricing). Along the years PR&A has become known in this area of consulting to companies in the agricultural, industrial, civil construction, energy production and service rendering sectors.

The main steps in the elaboration of hedge policies are the following: assets and liabilities mapping, risk factor analysis, measurement of the results under the impact of stress scenarios, the analysis of available instruments and derivatives, comparison of hedge strategies and, finally, the elaboration of hedging policies.

The projects PR&A undertakes in the area of hedge aim at protecting the company's financial results when faced with abrupt movements of the financial market (foreign exchange, interest rates and prices in general). This offers to companies procedures (policies) to manage with precision their exposure to risk market. As a consequence, possible financial losses are duly measured and adequately adjusted to the risks the company is willing to take. The implementation of hedge policies generates as a result a volatility reduction of the financial results, attracting investors, since it heightens the company's financial management status in face of the market, creditors, suppliers and clients.