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Helping Private Equity Firms Protect Investments With Commodity Risk Management

Commodity price volatility puts your margins at risk and effects your portfolio companies EBITDA. Our platform provides the research, advanced analytics, and risk modeling to enhance your forward visibility.

Portfolio Company Success Story

Public • Manufacturing
Goal: Challenge Price Dis-Location

Created a comprehensive financial hedging strategy after thorough analysis of margin requirements, capital structure and risk tolerances.
Provided the manufacturer with forward visibility into the factors driving commodity pricing.
Tailored a hedging structure that provided an artificial floor if market prices should fall, which matched production and sales forecasts, while allowing ongoing adjustments
Provided the financial support needed to avoid costly inventory liquidations as market prices decreased, resulting in significant gains on their inventory hedges

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View the commodity exposures of a single portfolio company or aggregated across all, in a single screen–so you can make better decisions. We make it easy to manage your commodity exposures in real-time through objective market views, customized hedge strategies, proactive portfolio monitoring, cost-effective trade execution, and back-office support.

Hedge Recommendations

• Visualize risk against your financial goals and current likelihood of success, driven by proprietary algorithms, millions of simulations, and real-time prices

• Continuous evaluation and proactive notification when a market opportunity exists to reduce your risk via the AEGIS hedge recommendation engine

• Easily quantify the impact and efficiency of a potential hedge (and alternatives) before approving and executing with your counterparties

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Common hedgeable exposures for private equity portfolios include:

Crude Oil

Refined

Natural Gas

Power

NGLs

Ags

Metals

Interest Rates

Foreign Exchange

Portfolio Company Success Story

Private • Manufacturing
Goal: Improve market visibility & enhancement

Executed financial hedge program to offset aluminum price risk
Developed a “stop-loss” strategy that stabilized cost structure and reduced underlying volatility as aluminum markets rose over 97%
Improved the company’s cash flow with forward visibility and making adjustments as the market shifted
Company is now well positioned to manage commodity market fluctuations

Spreadsheets weren't built for managing your hedges.
Our software was.

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Real Estate Developer Utilizes an Interest Rate Cap to Create a Synthetic Swap

A residential real estate developer had a floating-rate bank loan with an embedded interest rate index floor – a common requirement from banks. After thorough analysis, AEGIS advised the company to purchase an interest rate cap at the same rate as the loan's floor, creating a "synthetic swap". This swap protects the company’s floating interest expense while working in conjunction with the pre-existing loan floor.

Interest Rate / FX Risk Management

AEGIS partners with private equity firms to mitigate interest rate and foreign exchange risk, identify portfolio commodity exposures, and protect their investment. See how one of our private equity clients was able to protect their investment portfolio.

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Differentiators

AEGIS is the recognized industry leader because of our:

Unmatched Technology

We leverage technology to distribute information, improve execution, assess scenarios, and deliver actionable insights through web and mobile apps. And our investment is ongoing.

Best Execution

We tailor recommendations to specific budgets, underwriting, lender covenants, and investor objectives – and partner with over 40 counterparties to arrive at fair value.

Unique Insight

The scale of our platform, a team dedicated to studying global commodity and rate markets, and an unmatched client base allow us to offer a unique perspective.

Complete Focus

It would be easy to pursue compromising activities and fee structures. We are 100% focused on capital and cash flow protection through fixed-fee contracts. No conflicts. Ever.

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Entities

40+

Counterparties

75+

Sponsors and Lenders

15+

Years in Business

Helping Private Equity Firms Protect Investments With Commodity Risk Management

Commodity price volatility puts your margins at risk and effects your portfolio companies EBITDA. Our platform provides the research, advanced analytics, and risk modeling to enhance your forward visibility.

Portfolio Company Success Story

Public • Manufacturing
Goal: Challenge Price Dis-Location

Created a comprehensive financial hedging strategy after thorough analysis of margin requirements, capital structure and risk tolerances.

Provided the manufacturer with forward visibility into the factors driving commodity pricing.

Tailored a hedging structure that provided an artificial floor if market prices should fall, which matched production and sales forecasts, while allowing ongoing adjustments

Provided the financial support needed to avoid costly inventory liquidations as market prices decreased, resulting in significant gains on their inventory hedges

Manage Risk. Protect Profits. Build Winning Businesses.

Hedge Recommendations

• Visualize risk against your financial goals and current likelihood of success, driven by proprietary algorithms, millions of simulations, and real-time prices

• Continuous evaluation and proactive notification when a market opportunity exists to reduce your risk via the AEGIS hedge recommendation engine

• Easily quantify the impact and efficiency of a potential hedge (and alternatives) before approving and executing with your counterparties

Common hedgeable exposures for private equity portfolios include:

Portfolio Company Success Story

Private • Manufacturing
Goal: Improve market visibility & enhancement

Executed financial hedge program to offset aluminum price risk

Developed a “stop-loss” strategy that stabilized cost structure and reduced underlying volatility as aluminum markets rose over 97%

Improved the company’s cash flow with forward visibility and making adjustments as the market shifted

Company is now well positioned to manage commodity market fluctuations

Spreadsheets weren't built for managing your hedges.
Our software was.

Get Started Let's Talk

Real Estate Developer Utilizes an Interest Rate Cap to Create a Synthetic Swap

Interest Rate / FX Risk Management

Trusted by businesses all over the world.

Book a demo Let's chat

Action-Oriented Market Insights

AEGIS is the recognized industry leader because of our:

Unmatched Technology

Best Execution

Unique Insight

Complete Focus

8x Global Leader as Hedging Advisory Firm

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Helping Private Equity Firms Protect Investments With Commodity Risk Management

Commodity price volatility puts your margins at risk and effects your portfolio companies EBITDA. Our platform provides the research, advanced analytics, and risk modeling to enhance your forward visibility.

Portfolio Company Success Story

Public • ManufacturingGoal: Challenge Price Dis-Location

Created a comprehensive financial hedging strategy after thorough analysis of margin requirements, capital structure and risk tolerances.

Provided the manufacturer with forward visibility into the factors driving commodity pricing.

Tailored a hedging structure that provided an artificial floor if market prices should fall, which matched production and sales forecasts, while allowing ongoing adjustments

Provided the financial support needed to avoid costly inventory liquidations as market prices decreased, resulting in significant gains on their inventory hedges

Manage Risk. Protect Profits. Build Winning Businesses.

Hedge Recommendations

• Visualize risk against your financial goals and current likelihood of success, driven by proprietary algorithms, millions of simulations, and real-time prices

• Continuous evaluation and proactive notification when a market opportunity exists to reduce your risk via the AEGIS hedge recommendation engine

• Easily quantify the impact and efficiency of a potential hedge (and alternatives) before approving and executing with your counterparties

Common hedgeable exposures for private equity portfolios include:

Portfolio Company Success Story

Private • ManufacturingGoal: Improve market visibility & enhancement

Executed financial hedge program to offset aluminum price risk

Developed a “stop-loss” strategy that stabilized cost structure and reduced underlying volatility as aluminum markets rose over 97%

Improved the company’s cash flow with forward visibility and making adjustments as the market shifted

Company is now well positioned to manage commodity market fluctuations

Spreadsheets weren't built for managing your hedges. Our software was.

Get Started Let's Talk

Real Estate Developer Utilizes an Interest Rate Cap to Create a Synthetic Swap

Interest Rate / FX Risk Management

Trusted by businesses all over the world.

Book a demo Let's chat

Action-Oriented Market Insights

AEGIS is the recognized industry leader because of our:

Unmatched Technology

Best Execution

Unique Insight

Complete Focus

8x Global Leader as Hedging Advisory Firm

Get Market Insights delivered to your inbox daily.

Public • Manufacturing
Goal: Challenge Price Dis-Location

Private • Manufacturing
Goal: Improve market visibility & enhancement

Spreadsheets weren't built for managing your hedges.
Our software was.

Get Market Insights
delivered to your inbox daily.