Oliver Wyman's Global Risk & Trading practice enables the world's top industrial corporations and commodity trading organizations to gain competitive advantages by assisting them with managing risk across their businesses more effectively. By working with global leaders in a broad range of industries, our practice has developed unique capabilities that help industrial corporations and commodity trading organizations create value and maximize their performance by making risk-adjusted strategy, investment and capital allocation decisions.

Our practice works with clients to measure and manage risk at all levels within their organization - from the board and executive suite to line management. Drawing upon resources from across our division with decades of specialized expertise in risk management as well as the deep knowledge that partners in other parts of Oliver Wyman possess of specific industries, regulatory issues, economic trends and leadership development, we anticipate unprecedented challenges in our clients' competitive environments and deliver comprehensive customized solutions quickly that improve their operations and risk-return profile.

Corporate Risk

Our practice supports top corporations in embedding risk and volatility management into decision-making processes across their organizations. Whether strategic, counterparty, commodity or large project risks, we offer advice on the frameworks and best practices that improve a company's financial performance by improving its risk-adjusted decision making.

Commodity Trading

Leading commodity traders count on our practice to create the risk-adjusted infrastructure necessary for their organizations to optimize value. We support our clients on all matters related to the risks they encounter in their business ranging from building trading processes, tackling strategic challenges, to establishing an appropriate governance structure and the required risk methodologies.

Key Areas of Insight

Corporate Risk		Commodity Trading
Risk-based portfolio strategy		Strategy and portfolio management
Risk management frameworks, governance and organization		Governance and organization
Commodity, FX, interest rate and credit risk hedging strategies		Systems selection and process design
Risk appetite, risk capital frameworks and risk-based performance measurement		Building and expanding trading businesses
Large capital project and supply chain risk management		Risk management frameworks, exposure models and policies

Oliver Wyman Global Risk Center

The Global Risk & Trading practice works with the Oliver Wyman Global Risk Center to lead and collaborate on research focusing on issues involving risks that affect multiple industries and nations with top professional associations, non-governmental organizations and academic institutions around the world.  The Global Risk Center is Oliver Wyman's research institute dedicated to analyzing increasingly complex risks that are reshaping industries, governments, and societies. Its mission is to assist decision makers in addressing these risks by creating research that combines Oliver Wyman's rigorous analytical approach to risk management with leading thinking from research partners such as the World Economic Forum and the World Energy Council.