A comprehensive resource for understanding the complexities of
agricultural finance
Agricultural Finance: From Crops to Land, Water, and
Infrastructure is a pioneering book that offers a comprehensive
resource for understanding the worldwide agriculture markets, from
spikes in agricultural commodity prices to trading strategies, and
the agribusiness industry generally to the challenges of feeding
the planet in particular. The book also goes in-depth on the topics
of land, water, fertilizers, biofuels, and ethanol. Written by
Helyette Geman–an industry expert in commodity
derivatives–this book explores the agricultural marketplace
and the cycles in agricultural commodity prices that can be the key
to investor success.
This resource addresses a wide range of other important topics
as well, including agricultural insurance, energy, shipping and
bunker prices, sustainability, investments in land, subsidies,
agricultural derivatives, and farming risk-management. Other topics
covered include structured products and agricultural commodities
ETFs; trade finance in an era of credit shortage; securitization
and commodity-linked notes; grains: wheat, corn, soybeans; softs:
coffee, cocoa, cotton; shipping as a key component of agricultural
trade; and the major agricultural shipping routes and the costs.
The book:
* Offers the first comprehensive resource that deals with the all
aspects of agricultural finance
* Includes information that is crucial for pension funds, asset
managers, hedge funds, agribusiness corporates, CTAs and
regulators
* Covers a range of topics from agricultural bunker prices,
futures, options to major shipping routes and the costs
This text is a must-have resource for accessing the information
required to trade successfully in the agricultural marketplace.
About the author
HÉLYETTE GEMAN is Director of the Commodity Finance Centre at Birkbeck, University of London and Research Professor at Johns Hopkins University. She is a graduate of Ecole Normale Supérieure in Mathematics, holds a Masters degree in Theoretical Physics and a Ph D in Probability from the University Pierre et Marie Curie; and a Ph D in Finance from the University Paris Sorbonne.
Professor Geman has published more than 130 papers in top international finance, insurance and energy economics Journals, became in 1993 a Member of Honour of the French Society of Actuaries for her work on Catastrophic risk; received in 1994 the first Prize of the Merrill Lynch awards for her research on Asian and complex options; was named in 2004 in the Hall of Fame of Energy Risk. She has been a scientific advisor to major financial institutions, energy and mining companies and commodity houses for the last 21 years, covering the spectrum of interest rates, crude oil and natural gas, metals and agricultural, including water, fertilizers and land.
Her book Insurance and Weather Derivatives was published in 1999 by RISK Publications; her book entitled Commodities and Commodity Derivatives: Energy, Metals and Agriculturals published by Wiley Finance in 2005 has become the reference in industry and Master programmes worldwide.
Prof Geman counts among her Ph D students Nassim Taleb. She is presently on the Board of a green energy company and an active participant in a ‘precision farming’ project involving 12, 500 farmers in East Africa.
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