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RiskBrief issue 4
From FinanceWise: the only dedicated financial search engine
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22 March 2000

Dear RiskBrief subscribers

The fourth edition is here, and this month's theme is weather.
Weather derivatives is increasingly a hot topic on the web at the
moment. Four sites have been launched in the last three months,
including tradeweather.com, weather-risk.com and WeatherRiskAdvisory.com.
Along with the weather trading site from Liffe (I-WeX.com),
launched in January, and the introduction last September of
weather futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), there is
something of a rush on.

To provide you with an online resource to weather risk, we have
an introductory guide, two site reviews, 22 articles and an
exclusive book offer.

http://www.tradeweather.com (see site reviews)
http://www.weather-risk.com (see site reviews)
http://www.WeatherRiskAdvisory.com
http://www.i-wex.com
http://www.cme.com/news/weather921.html

How fast will the weather derivatives market grow? Will there be
enough liquidity? Let us know what you think.

In the meantime, please enjoy the rest of this month's issue,
with 14 articles on currency trading, e-trading, and news of conferences,
jobs and more.

Regards

Rob Minto
Producer, FinanceWise
rminto@risk.co.uk


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CONTENTS:
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>> Weather risk guide
>> Site reviews
>> Articles and features: weather risk, e-trading, currency trading
>> New #1 site
>> Book special offer: Insurance and Weather Risk
>> Conferences & training
>> New jobs

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WEATHER RISK GUIDES:
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Introduction to weather derivatives from the CME. A market history,
plus a discussion of pricing and analyzing weather contracts.
http://www.cme.com/weather/introweather.html

An overview article from James Roemer of the WeatherRisk Institute.
http://www.investaweather.com/commo/roemers_theory.htm

Bob Dischel's site on weather derivatives, with articles, links and
seminar details.
http://www.wxpx.com

For further links to weather derivatives online see the html version:
http://www.financewise.com/cgi-bin/l/lrrpre?P=/l/riskbrief1unreg.htm


SITE REVIEWS:
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Who is doing what on the web? A double helping of site reviews this month:

-New bond trading site from JP Morgan Bear Stearns, Chase
Manhattan and Moneyline
-Weather derivatives trading & info: Enron's weather-risk.com
& Tradeweather.com
-Foreign-exchange trading from Financial Market Solutions
-The French Tr,sor site covering sovereign bond issues
-Algorithmic's risk management methodology - 'mark-to-future'

-Rent applications and analytical tools from Cygnifi, a new web
offering from JP Morgan, Bridge & Sybase
-Revamped Inventure.com site - provider of data & analytics
-Keep up to date on new-issue markets with S&P's new site
http://www.financewise.com/cgi-bin/l/lrrpre?P=/l/riskbrief1unreg.htm


ARTICLES & FEATURES:
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14 new articles and features have been added to the FinanceWise
Risk Management Special Report. The new supplements are:
-Electronic Trading
-Currency Risk

Continuing our theme of weather, we also have two editions of
weather risk. These 22 articles include glossaries and technical
articles on data and forecasting, options pricing, emissions
trading and weather-linked bonds.
http://www.financewise.com/cgi-bin/l/lrrpre?P=/l/riskbrief1unreg.htm


#1 SITE
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The new #1 site on FinanceWise is the Picture of Risk site
from Risk Metrics, displacing Finmath.com (triple #1 award winner)
as the most visited site in February. Click below to view the
latest rankings
http://www.financewise.com/rankings


BOOK SPECIAL OFFER: EXCLUSIVE
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And completing our weather coverage for this month, there is a
10% discount available exclusive to RiskBrief subscribers on:
"Insurance and Weather Derivatives
From Exotic Options to Exotic Underlyings"

For further details and information see:
http://www.financewise.com/cgi-bin/l/lrrpre?P=/l/riskbrief1unreg.htm

There are other special offers available on the Risk Books site:
http://www.riskbooks.com


CONFERENCES & TRAINING
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Full details are now online for Risk 2000. Risk's 6th annual US
derivatives and risk management congress will be held in Boston
on June 13 & 14. Keynote speakers: Myron Scholes and Jeffrey Skilling.
http://www.riskpublications.com/risk2000us


JOBS
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This month, the search term "Jobs" has moved up to 5th position in the
FinanceWise rankings.
http://www.financewise.com/rankings

If you were one of those searching for "jobs", don't forget our own
job search section. It currently holds 46 treasury and risk management, a
record 29 additions since the last Brief.
Visit the job search and select the job category
"Finance: Treasury and Risk Mgmt".
http://www.financewise.com/jobs

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Also:
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Please e-mail us if there is anything you would like to see
in this newsletter, or any questions that you would like
addressed. RiskBrief now reaches over 1200 subscribers
worldwide. So if you have something interesting to say, or
an opinion to share with all your fellow subscribers send
your comments to:
rminto@risk.co.uk

P.s. Also suggest sites for us to review / index


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