The State of Financial Risk Management

Learn how your debt and hedging practices compare with industry peers

This independent study of 1,300 U.S. public companies examines their risk exposures, hedging, capital markets activity, and hedge accounting practices. Request the report to see your debt and hedging practices compared with your peers.

Key takeaways

Corporate debt maturity shifted from longer tenors to shorter tenors, reflecting the higher cost of borrowing.
Smaller public companies used mostly cash flow hedging programs while larger corporations frequently used fair value hedging programs.
95% of public manufacturing companies were exposed to FX risk and almost two-thirds hedged that risk.
Of companies that hedged interest rate exposure, 88% sought and achieved hedge accounting compared with 93% of those that hedged foreign currency exposure.

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Disclaimers

Chatham Hedging Advisors, LLC (CHA) is a subsidiary of Chatham Financial Corp. and provides hedge advisory, accounting and execution services related to swap transactions in the United States. CHA is registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as a commodity trading advisor and is a member of the National Futures Association (NFA); however, neither the CFTC nor the NFA have passed upon the merits of participating in any advisory services offered by CHA. For further information, please visit chathamfinancial.com/legal-notices.

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