This paper examines three new fundamental drivers that are likely to impact prices achieved by plantations. First, there are shifts in price risk management approaches with the greater use of derivatives. This is expected to result in a wider dispersion of price outcomes. The review of CPO average selling prices achieved has become of greater interest to analysts, especially with varying volume growth and the presence of newer and more aggressive players. Secondly, prices achieved are also impacted by duty and tariff differentials, which are still prominent policy tools in the midst of growing trade tussles. Finally, the behaviour of non-traditional physical traders and their imputed impact on stocks build up in key markets is also a feature of the palm oil market that can add uncertainty. There has been prominent news about some traditional fundamentals of market supply and demand. These include juxtapositions of mooted Indonesia land bank restrictions and promised growth in frontier areas, as well as opportunity afforded by transfats limits versus saturated fats restrictions. We expect that these are longer-term in impact.