Online Seminar: To Hedge or Not To Hedge - Managing Foreign Exchange Risk

Not only is hedging an important defensive move, but if used effectively, it can be a valuable offensive strategy for your company and its shareholders. By hedging, or actively managing your company's foreign exchange exposure to protect revenues, expenses, assets and liabilities from exchange rate volatility, you can minimize disruption to the business and improve the bottom line. With experience guiding technology and life science companies specifically on their foreign exchange strategies, the SVB team, in this Web seminar replay, covers risk-management best practices.

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Speakers

Joe O'Leary - Senior Foreign Exchange Trader, Silicon Valley Bank
Laurence Hayward - Senior Advisor, Global Financial Services, Silicon Valley Bank
Ed Sauve - Senior Advisor, Global Financial Services, Silicon Valley Bank (moderator)

This seminar covers these and other topics:

• Various types of currency risks
• Why to hedge - and when?
• How to select the best hedging strategies for your company
• How to hedge internally
• When to employ FX tools including natural offsets, spot contracts, forward contracts, over-the-counter options, structured strategies and foreign currency loans

Foreign exchange transactions can be highly risky, and losses may occur in short periods of time if there is an adverse movement of exchange rates. Exchange rates can be highly volatile and are impacted by numerous economic, political and social factors, as well as supply and demand and governmental intervention, control and adjustments. Investments in financial instruments carry significant risk, including the possible loss of the principal amount invested. Before entering any foreign exchange transaction, you should obtain advice from your own tax, financial, legal and other advisors, and only make investment decisions on the basis of your own objectives, experience and resources.