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- Enterprise Risk Management In The Financial Services Industry: From Concept To Management Process
- ERM can provide a rigorous approach in managing risks from all sources that threaten the strategic and financial objectives or that represent opportunities for competitive advantage. Nonetheless, only a relatively small number of companies, especially in the insurance sector, have actually fully implemented ERM. This paper shows how financial service...
- White papers 2000-11-01
- Creating Value Through Enterprise Risk Management - A Practical Approach For The Insurance Industry
- "ERM is generally defined as assessing and addressing risks, from all sources, that represent either material threats to business objectives or opportunities to exploit for competitive advantage. The paper is prepared in direct response to insurance executives' declared desire for a unifying ERM framework specific to their industry. It...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Enterprise Risk—What's Up With That?
- There has been a lot interest lately in the concept of enterprise risk management ERM. The key idea is to systematically identify the significant risks faced by a company. In an effort to carry the notion of enterprise risk management forward, companies have begun to appoint chief risk officers CROs....
- White papers 2000-10-01
- Get Respect From Your CFO
- It may be the single greatest challenge risk managers face today: Getting the ear of the treasurer and the CFO as they struggle to manage skyrocketing insurance costs and a plethora of new concerns that threaten to sink bottom lines and destroy shareholder value but the events that have made...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Top Cops of Risk
- The rise of enterprise risk management has spawned a new corporate executive: Chief Risk Officer. Enterprise risk management veers sharply from traditional risk management, in which different company departments are given the task of managing different risks. The custom is for insurance risk managers to mitigate property-and-casualty exposures, treasurers to...
- White papers 2000-09-01
- Step-By-Step Enterprise Risk Management
- From the executive summary: 'A corporate risk policy facilitates a four-step process: identify the major risks faced by the company, create an organized approach to measure, monitor, and control the risks. Measuring is the process of assigning a value to a given risk level, either quantitatively or qualitatively. Monitoring involves,...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Adding Value Through Risk and Capital Management
- Integrated risk and capital management is emerging as a source of competitive advantage in the insurance industry. Insurers have come to recognize enterprise risk management as fundamental to creating and improving shareholder value through better risk-based decision making and capital allocation. This survey shows how the promise inherent in the...
- White papers 2005-02-07
- The Lessons of September 11
- The civilized world is coming to terms with the human and economic losses from the terrorist attacks of September 11. The insurance industry has begun asking itself some important questions: What lessons can one learn from this tragedy? Could one have been better prepared to manage the consequences of this...
- White papers 2002-01-01
- ERM - A Status Report
- Owning or running a business, especially an insurance business, has never been riskier. The risks include a flagging economy, turmoil in the equity markets, international terrorism, rumors of war and blatant malfeasance by corporate executives. Against this backdrop, it is not surprising that this paper presents a benchmarking study of...
- White papers 2002-04-01
- Embracing Enterprise Risk Management
- In the past, insurance companies would typically manage risk for their diverse business lines separately, without taking into account the correlation of risks between each business line. But now, insurance companies want to understand their risks better. What are the drivers behind the Enterprise Risk Management ERM movement? It almost...
- White papers 2006-01-20
- Insurers Are in the Game
- Since the business of insurance is risk management, it's not surprising that the majority of insurers have standards of practice for monitoring, managing and mitigating risk. What's more surprising, is that Enterprise Risk Management ERM-identifying, prioritizing, quantifying, mitigating and financing risks from all sources across an enterprise-seems to be catching...
- White papers 2006-04-01
- Sarbanes-Oxley Spurs ERM
- Finance chiefs at life insurance companies are responding to provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act by boosting their Enterprise Risk Management ERM practices, according to a survey by Tillinghast-Towers Perrrin, the risk management consulting firm. Fifty-three percent of 30 life insurance CFOs responding to the Web survey said they were reacting...
- White papers 2003-02-05
- Enterprise Risk Management And Technology
- A lot has been said over the last two years about the role technology can play in Enterprise Risk Management ERM. Much of the discussion has focused on very specific issues where technology plays a role in the ever-present Sarbanes OXley compliance process SOX. Often, the role of technology is...
- White papers 2005-05-01
- Unlocking The Value In Economic Capital
- Enterprise Risk Management ERM is a popular topic these days. Many insurers are in the process of establishing some form of ERM program or are well along the implementation path and are refining their approach. A key component of ERM is the risk assessment phase, which, for most insurers, takes...
- White papers 2006-06-13
Additional Resources
- ERM seeps into the ivory tower: enterprise risk management, a topic which for several years has found itself high up on the corporate agenda, is spreading to the ivory towers of the academic world where the subject has traditionally found a cool reception
- While enterprise risk management has become a hot topic in corporate risk management circles, academia has been cool to the idea. Universities and colleges that long have taught traditional insurance risk management have rarely touched on the ever-growing list of nonhazard exposures companies face. Now they are warming up to...
- Research articles 2005-02-01
- No two approaches to ERM the same; Practitioners target all, or select number of risks.(Spotlight: Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc. 2006 Trends & Developments)(enterprise risk management)
- Byline: DAVE LENCKUS HONOLULU-If there were a dictionary entry for "enterprise risk management,'' it would need nearly as many definitions as there are practitioners. Some organizations have turned to ERM to help control all corporate risk Byline: DAVE LENCKUS ...
- Research articles 2006-05-08
- Managing risk adds value; Enterprise risk management approach pays off: Execs.(case studies of how risk management can cut insurance costs and provide other benefits)
- EDMONTON, Alberta--Companies that instill a risk management culture throughout their organization can cut costs, attract better employees and prevent injuries, a corporate executive contends. By encouraging all employees to think about risk management issues in all of their daily duties, companies can create an environment that...
- Research articles 2000-10-30
- Leaders Of The Evolution
- Few corporate positions are as evolutionary, perhaps revolutionary, as the job of risk manager. Twenty-five years ago, one would be hard-pressed to find more than a dozen. Back then, they were insurance managers, but they were taking courses in the nascent science. As they proved their merit to senior management,...
- White papers 2000-12-01
- Risks And Benefits: The CFO As CRO?
- From the executive summary: ‘At first glance, chief financial officers seem splendidly positioned to be the czars of Enterprise Risk Management ERM. Indeed, many already oversee one traditional area of risk management: the operational hazards often covered by property-casualty insurance. Typically, the corporate risk manager who identifies, assesses, and decides...
- White papers 2004-10-14
- Mashable's Weekly Guide to Social Media Conferences and Events
- It's a brand new week, which means it's time for Mashable's guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable's Events section . Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month...
- News items 2009-10-19
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