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Management’s Discussion and Analysis cont’dGROUP FINANCIAL REVIEWRISK MANAGEMENT cont’dFinancial/Market Risk Management• The <strong>Group</strong>’s operations which have expanded substantially in recent years expose it to a variety of financial risks, includingforeign exchange risk, interest rate risk, market risk (including commodity price risk), credit risk, liquidity and cashflow risk.• The <strong>Group</strong>’s overall financial risk management objective is to ensure that the <strong>Group</strong> creates value for its shareholders whilstminimising potential adverse effects on its financial performance and positions. Main consideration is on potential impact on risksto cash flows.• The <strong>Group</strong> addresses the various financial risks exposure by taking pro-active measures within our established risk managementframework and clearly defined guidelines that are approved by the Board. In this respect, the <strong>Group</strong> enters into forward contractsand exchange-traded agricultural commodity futures as well as commodity swap to hedge our inventories, sale and purchasecommitments. The effectiveness of hedges are periodically reviewed and limits for mandatory “cut loss” are set to limit commodityprice exposures for all relevant operations.• Besides, the <strong>Group</strong> also enters into interest rate derivative instruments with the objective of minimising overall cost of borrowingsover the tenure of the underlying borrowings. An appropriate mix of fixed and floating rates are taken after giving dueconsideration to current fixed rates level, forward scenario analysis and potential net cash flow fluctuation.• Whenever possible, the <strong>Group</strong> favours taking a “natural hedge” approach as for instance, to have the same currency base inthe risk management of its foreign currency denominated assets and liabilities and in respect of income and expenditure as forexample, to have USD liabilities as hedge against the <strong>Group</strong>’s USD denominated palm oil income stream.• Whenever appropriate, we also enter into forward foreign currency contracts to limit the <strong>Group</strong>’s exposure to fluctuation inforeign exchange rates with respect to our foreign currency denominated assets and liabilities as well as committed sales andpurchases of commodity and other products.25ANNUAL REPORT 2007<strong>IOI</strong> Corporation Berhad

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