BOSLEGO RISK SERVICES

 

Robert Boslego

Harvard College, BA Economics (Honors)

Stanford Graduate School of Business, MBA

 

 

Consulting Services for Energy Corporations

and Financial Firms

 

Boslego assists energy corporations and end-users of energy products, who are exposed to energy price risk, as well as financial firms, such as hedge funds, funds of funds, and wealth management offices, to assess and manage risk, or evaluate the risk management strategies and capabilities of portfolio managers.

 

Mission

 

To assist clients to deepen their awareness of risk and how risk should be managed.  

 

Services

 

Market Prices are uncontrollable. What can be controlled is the risk exposure to market prices.

 

Risk management means risk reduction to many. But in a more expansive view, risk management also specifies how and when to increase risk.

 

Generally, there is a trade-off between risk and return. But in some timeframes, taking less risk leads to greater overall return. Furthermore, effective risk management deepens confidence and leads to more investment and therefore higher overall returns.

 

Our consulting services include the following areas:

 

• Objective Setting/Risk Preference Assessment/Performance Criteria.
• Evaluation of Risk Management Activities.
• Risk Identification and Quantification.
• Evaluation of Hedge Strategies, Hedge Funds, for Due Diligence.
More.
• Systematic Hedge Strategy Development and Simulations.
• Hedge Strategies for Hedge Funds.
More.
• Daily Risk Analysis and Portfolio Allocations.
• Monitoring and Evaluation of Results.

 

 

Clients

 

Since 1980, Boslego became a recognized expert on energy price risk management, assisting more than one hundred major corporations in the U.S. and worldwide, more than any other source.More. Since 2000, Boslego has assisted numerous financial firms in the evaluation, development and simulation of risk management strategies, programs and procedures.

 

Corporate clients include national oil companies, integrated oil corporations, E&P companies, independent refiners, wholesalers and marketers, domestic and international trading companies, and major end-users and processors of energy products, such as transportation companies.  

 

Partial corporate list includes major oil companies such as Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Chevron, Shell, and Phillips; national oil companies such as Agip, PDVSA, Total, Statoil, Pemex, and PetroCanada; major oil refiners such as Citgo, Marathon, Ashland and Hess; major end-users, such as Burlington-Northern Railroad, Canadian National Railway, United Airlines, and Delta Airlines; and large trading companies, such as Phibro, Enron, Vitol, Louis Dreyfus, and El Paso.

 

Financial clients have included hedge funds, venture capital firms, insurance firms, wealth advisors and family offices.

 

 

 

 

testimonials

 

“Sharing Boslego information among several worldwide locations has created a common basis for understanding market conditions. Boslego offers a sound methodology and interesting perspective. Their work has increased the firm’s awareness of risk management and influenced a process of self-assessment of risk and return for the company.”    - Statoil (Norway)

 

“Boslego has helped us develop a better understanding of our own futures trading and hedging function...We appreciate Boslego’s high degree of professionalism.”     -Ashland, Inc.

 

“We like the probing analysis Boslego provides; we can’t analyze the subtleties as deeply and frequently enough ourselves. Boslego is not afraid to put forth some possibilities, and this gives us a benchmark for our own analysis.”     - Chevron

 

“Market analysis is the key to everything we do at Phibro. We now rely on Boslego for our risk analysis to a great extent rather than do it ourselves. We use it to evaluate the stability of the market, understand history, see patterns, and generally round out our perspective. We couldn’t do without it.”  - Phibro