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EXITSWINGLEVERAGECARRYFRAUDNO RECOURSEBARRIEREXPERTISE
  • Fishing quota 53 Tough A right carved out of a public resource and held by very few: closed to outsiders, exposed to policy.
  • Weather derivatives 56 Tough A specialist hedging tool with almost no retail footprint: built for corporate treasuries, not traders.
  Fishing quota Weather derivatives
Exit difficulty 4 4
Volatility 3 4
Leverage 2 2
Carry cost 2 2
Fraud risk 1 1
Protection gap 4 3
Barrier to entry 5 5
Expertise needed 4 5
Difficulty 53 Tough 56 Tough
In a sentence The right to catch a tonne of a named species in a named area — created by law, concentrated in remarkably few hands, and worth more than the boats.Contracts that pay out based on temperature, rainfall or wind, letting businesses hedge the one variable nobody controls.
Unit Fixed Quota Allocation units, converted to tonnes annually Heating or cooling degree days; millimetres of rain
Smallest realistic trade Units traded between vessel owners and producer organisations Institutional and corporate
Settlement Transfer recorded by the fisheries authority Cash, against published meteorological data

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