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- Managing and Financing Catastrophe Risk: The Need for an Enterprise -Wide , Value-Oriented Approach
- "Discussions regarding re-insurance risk, capital adequacy, and risk finance often center on the industry's significant accumulation of catastrophe-linked liabilities. Despite several years of plentiful reinsurance capacity and a respite from truly bone rattling losses, insurers and re-insurers continue to place the need for improved mechanisms and strategies for...
- White papers 1999-07-01
- Quantifying Insurance Terrorism Risk
- This paper addresses the challenge of quantifying terrorism risk. The classic definition of risk is that it is a product of hazard and vulnerability. The second factor deals with the loss inflicted if a specific terrorist scenario were to occur. Such a scenario might involve the crash of a plane...
- White papers 2002-02-01
- Coming to Terms With Terrorism Risk
- The tragic events of September 11 have irrevocably changed the market place of terrorism insurance. Terrorism is now a catastrophe risk, and as with natural perils, which have the power to cause catastrophic insured losses, the development of computerized tools for portfolio risk management has become a topic of urgent...
- White papers 2002-07-30
- Mathematical Aspects of Terrorism Hazard
- Financial protection has long been provided against a battery of malevolent human actions: from burglary and arson to hijacking, piracy, kidnapping and mugging. Whatever the vagaries of human nature, criminal intent is one of the more predictable traits, and many types of crime are sufficiently frequent to generate substantial volumes...
- White papers 2002-04-01
- Alternatives for Terror
- In the financial world there is a conundrum with terrorism alternative risk transfer ART arising from the ambiguity in risk evaluation. An ART deal may be given a neat quantitative risk label but buyers may suspect that the real risk is quite different. Risk analysts need to convince potential ART...
- White papers 2002-09-01
- Quantifying Terrorism Risk for Insured Portfolios
- As with Hurricane Andrew in 1992, and the Northridge Earthquake in 1994, the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, has resulted in major advances in the quantification and management of a class of catastrophe insurance risks. The control of accumulations of exposure in urban areas...
- White papers 2003-06-01
- The Evolution of Terrorism Risk Modeling
- To anticipate rare acts of terrorism, beyond the experience of even the most seasoned underwriter, the judgment of external terrorism experts might be invoked. Terrorism risk management would still be largely qualitative, with underwriting being supported by the greater knowledge and perception of terrorism experts as to the intent and...
- White papers 2003-04-22
- Understanding Terrorism Risk
- The objective of this report is to convey wider understanding of terrorism risk. Before 9/11, a qualitative approach sufficed for terrorism underwriting. However, for insuring against Al Qaeda, whose threats of violence acknowledge no political or moral restraint, a more formal analytical methodology is demanded. This methodology has evolved since...
- White papers 2004-03-25
- Managing Risk In The Aftermath Of The World Trade Center Catastrophe
- From the executive summary: ‘At the most basic level, managing catastrophe risk involves ensuring that insurers and re-insurers are able to remain viable following losses from a probable maximum event. For the most part, insurers and reinsurers approach Probable Maximum Loss PML management by planning for the eventuality of a...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Sophisticated Growth Of Insurance Industry
- However, the World Trade Center WTC disaster, as the industry's first super-CAT, has illuminated the risk management landscape and has challenged all parties to revisit many long held assumptions about catastrophe and enterprise risk management. While it will take years to reconcile the full impact of the WTC event on...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- A Terrorism Risk Analyst's Perspective on TRIA
- The insurance industry as a whole should be concerned with the level of the terrorist threat, not just over a short term horizon of the next few years, but as it evolves over several decades. A far-sighted insurance risk manager may endeavor to develop a terrorism book of business so...
- White papers 2005-09-19
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- RAND, RMS jointly set up terrorism risk study center. (Spotlight on Terrorism).(Risk Management Solutions)
- RAND and Risk Management Solutions Inc. are teaming up to start a research operation to study terrorism risk and how to compensate victims of terrorism attacks. The goal, they said, is to help develop more-informed public policy decisions on manag RAND and Risk...
- Research articles 2003-01-06
- HP And Algorithmics: Enterprise Risk Management Solutions
- Together, HP and Algorithmics provide proven risk management solutions for the worldwide financial services industry, built on cost-effective, industry-leading technologies. HP servers and services, Algorithmics risk management solutions, and Linux operating system software deliver the agility, efficiency, and return on investment that today's leading financial institutions demand. The accelerated adoption...
- White papers 2004-05-01
- Products & Services.(Risk Management Solutions Inc. partnered with China Earthquake Administration's Institute of Engineering Mechanics)(Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. introduced Premier Lawyers Professional Liability policy)(XL Insurance Amer
- RMS partners to create China earthquake model NEWARK, Calif.-Catastrophe modeler Risk Management Solutions Inc. is partnering with the China Earthquake Administration's Institute of Engineering Mechanics to produce a China earthquake risk model. RMS partners to create China earthquake model ...
- Research articles 2006-05-22
- RAND and Risk Management Solutions have formed a partnership to create a research center at RAND to study the risk of terrorism and how to compensate victims of terrorism - News and Notes
- RAND of Santa Monica, Calif., and Risk Management Solutions of Newark, Calif., have formed a partnership to create a research center at RAND to study the risk of terrorism and how to compensate victims of terrorism. The center's goal will be to support more informed public policy decisions on how...
- Research articles 2003-02-01
- First Advantage Corp., St. Petersburg, Fla., a global risk management solutions provider, acquired Landlord Protect, a New Jersey-based regional provider of resident screening services.(Resident Screening Companies Make Acquisitions)
- First Advantage Corp., St. Petersburg, Fla., a global risk management solutions provider, acquired Landlord Protect, a New Jersey-based regional provider of resident screening services. First Advantage Corp., St. Petersburg, Fla., a global risk management solutions provider, acquired Landlord Protect, a New Jersey-based regional...
- Research articles 2004-06-01
- Mantas Now Offers Financial Institutions One-Stop Shopping for Industry Leading Database, Compliance and Risk Management Solutions; New reseller agreement allows customers to purchase Oracle® software directly from Mantas
- NEW YORK -- Mantas, a leading global provider of compliance and risk management solutions and a member of the OracleR PartnerNetwork, today announced it has been authorized to resell Oracle Database software directly to Mantas customers. Compliance officers in financial institutions, particularly regional and community banks, will benefit from the...
- Research articles 2006-08-10
- Keane Business Risk Management Solutions
- Keane Business Risk Management Solutions, a suburban Philadelphia-based financial risk and compliance solution provider for Fortune 1000 companies, has announced the appointment of JOHN GARBER as vice president. He will focus on business development. Garber was the founder of Garber & Associates, and is an insurance industry veteran.
- Research articles 2006-10-01
- Cerner to Acquire Galt Associates, Leader in Drug Safety and Risk Management Solutions
- KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Cerner Corp. (NASDAQ: CERN) today announced its intent to acquire Galt Associates, Inc., a leading provider of safety and risk management solutions for pharmaceutical, medical device and biotechnology companies. The acquisition will augment Cerner's LifeSciences portfolio, adding innovative solutions and services that use medical event data...
- Research articles 2006-06-14
- Morgan Stanley Fund acquires interest in Risk Management Solutions Inc
- MENLO PARK, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 9, 1995--Risk Management Solutions Inc. ("RMS") has announced that a limited partnership managed by Morgan Stanley Capital Partners and a group of other investment partners has acquired a controlling interest in RMS.Morgan Stanley Capital Partners is the private equity unit of Morgan Stanley Group Inc. (NYSE:...
- Research articles 1995-02-09
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