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20May2013
Heading to Macau: SOA Annual Symposium Offers Professional Development in Asia
The Society of Actuaries continues to broaden its international professional development programs with the SOA Annual Symposium, Outlook in Asia: Actuarial Trends & Solutions, 24-25 June 2013 in
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Risk Management News: May 2012
Each month we provide links to the best online articles and conversations about risk management. If you would like to add to this list, just leave a summary and a link in the comments section. Enjoy t
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Risk Metrics for Decision Making and ORSA
The Joint Risk Management Section of the Society of Actuaries (SOA), the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) and the Canadian Institute of Actuaries (CIA), in collaboration with the International Network
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Risk Management News: April 2012
Each month we provide links to the best online articles and conversations about risk management. If you would like to add to this list, just leave a summary and a link in the comments section. Enjoy t
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Risk Management News: March 2012
Each month we provide links to the best online articles and conversations about risk management. If you would like to add to this list, just leave a summary and a link in the comments section. Enjoy t
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Alternative views on extrapolated yield curves: A fundamental question remains unanswered
by John Hibbert The Modeling of Financial Markets for Financial Institutions seminar will take place in conjunction with and the day after the 2012 Investment Symposium. Attendees of the seminar wi
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Risk management links for the month of February 2012
Each month we provide links to the best online articles and conversations about risk management. If you would like to add to this list, just leave a summary and a link in the comments section. Enjoy t
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Risk management links for the week of January 30
Each Friday we provide links to the best online articles and conversations about risk management. If you would like to add to this list, just leave a summary and a link in the comments section. Enjoy
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Risk management links for the week of January 23
Each Friday we provide links to the best online articles and conversations about risk management. If you would like to add to this list, just leave a summary and a link in the comments section. Enjoy the links for the week of January 23, 2012. As determined through hundreds of interviews with global business leaders and experts, income inequality tops the World Economic Forum’s annual list of likely global risks for 2012. Others risks topping the list include bad government balance sheets, greenhouse gas emissions, cyber attacks and water shortages. Erwann Michel-Kerjan, managing director of Wharton’s Risk Management and Decision Processes Center and report co-author, says these risks are not low-probability events and are pretty likely to happen. (Source: US News & World Report) (more...)
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The many sides of retention
In economics, there is a saying: “If you lined up all the economists end to end, they still couldn't reach a conclusion.” While the field of enterprise risk management (ERM) is not laden with as many philosophically divergent views as economics, those responsible for reducing risk at organizations certainly do not think homogeneously. With that in mind, stay tuned for a series of posts that offer up common scenarios faced by management teams and how to view those issues through the lens of people in different occupations. Through these posts, we hope you will gain a better understanding of the general thought processes and backgrounds that professionals from different walks of life bring to solving the complex problems related to risk mitigation. For the first post in this series, we chose to look at the all too common problem of employees leaving an organization en masse. Let’s consider the hypothetical situation of an advertising firm experiencing employee retention issues due to a series of leadership changes and, consequentially, low morale among those who felt loyalty to the former management regime. In addition, the firm recently decided to cut back its contributions to employee retirement plans because of continuing effects of a down economy on its bottom line. In exit interviews, employees frequently cite both of these events as reasons for leaving. (more...)
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