Weather Derivatives

By providing you with optimal hedges, Fortis Merchant Banking's talented specialists can enable you to protect your company's results against weather fluctuations.

Our clients

Weather changes can affect your company's operations and earnings. Typical among the kinds of organisations we help to protect from of weather-related losses are:

• utilities and public authorities 
• insurance and reinsurance 
• tourism and transportation 
• retailers and agriculture

How we can help you

Fortis Merchant Banking helps to immunise your commercial margin against the risk of adverse weather conditions. We have the specialists and financial contracts to help reduce your exposure, including swaps, options, futures, collars and more. Our experts use a number of indices to create weather derivatives, inter alia:

• temperature (HDD, CDD, maximum, minimum, average) 
• precipitation (rain, snow, etc.) 
• wind 
• number of hours of sunshine 
• combinations of the above

Fortis Merchant Banking: the right choice

We undertake in-depth analysis of your organisation's sensitivity to weather-related risks in order to provide you with hedging tailored precisely to your needs. In addition, our weather derivative specialists are also experienced in energy-related hedging, and are ready to combine both kinds of expertise in order to enhance solutions for energy producers and consumers.

To learn more, contact our experts via Where to find us.