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United Grain Growers: Enterprise Risk Management and Weather Risk

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  • Scott Harrington
  • Greg Niehaus

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In August of 1999, Mike McAndless, the risk manager of United Grain Growers (UGG), was preparing for a meeting with the firm's chief financial officer, Peter Cox. Mike and Peter had spent considerable time over the past three years with representatives of the Willis Group Ltd., a large international insurance broker, identifying and measuring UGG's major sources of risk. The risk assessment process indicated that, although UGG hedged most of its currency and commodity price risk and purchased insurance against property and liability losses, the firm's earnings still exhibited substantial volatility. This volatility was, in large part, due to the weather. Mike and Peter had to decide whether to retain the risk or shift it to another party using one of two innovative contractual arrangements: weather derivatives or a new type of insurance contract.

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  • Scott Harrington & Greg Niehaus, 2003. "United Grain Growers: Enterprise Risk Management and Weather Risk," Risk Management and Insurance Review, American Risk and Insurance Association, vol. 6(2), pages 193-208, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:rmgtin:v:6:y:2003:i:2:p:193-208
    DOI: 1098-1616.00031
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