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Risk: the possibility of suffering damage or loss in the face of uncertainty about the outcome of actions, future events, or circumstances. Organizations are exposed to various types of risk, including...; Risk definition on BNET »

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Palisade 's RISK software utilised by Cranfield University: TELECOMWORLDWIRE-4 June 2008-Palisade 's RISK software utilised by Cranfield UniversityC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com On 3 June it was reported that, during a research project, the School of Applied Sciences at Cranfield University used RISK software from Palisade Corporation, providers of risk and decision analysis software. The project aimed...; Tags: Cranfield University, Databases, FINANCE, MARKETING, RISK, SOFTWARE; Research articles 2008-06-04
Memorializing Milton Friedman: a review of his major works, 1912-2006: Introduction Milton Friedman was born in July 31, 1912, in Brooklyn, NY, to Jewish immigrants, Jeno Saul Friedman and Sarah Ethel Landau, who immigrated to Brooklyn, in 1890, and 1895, respectively. Friedman's parents came from Barehovo, Ukraine, which was formerly part of Hungary and Czechoslovakia. When Milton Friedman was...; Tags: agent, Chicago, Columbia, economist, FINANCE, Friedman, hypothesis, income, inflation, Risk, Rose, theory, University of Chicago; Research articles 2008-03-22
Catastrophic losses and insurer profitability: evidence from 9/11: ABSTRACT We examine the effects of 9/11 on the insurance industry, hypothesizing a short-run claim effect, resulting from insufficient premium ex ante for catastrophic losses, and a long-run growth effect, resulting from ex post insurance supply reductions and risk updating. Following Yoon and Starks (1995) we use short- and...; Tags: analyst, asset, attack, Computing, Insurance, Lewis, M., reinsurance, Risk, tax, World Trade Center; Research articles 2008-03-01
Japanese firm to offer first-of-a-kind gene advice: TOKYO AFP — A Japanese company will soon start advising people what they should eat and how they should exercise based on custom-made analysis of their genes, in what the firm says is a world first service. Signpost Corp, which will launch the service in April in Japan, will...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, Benefits, gene, HEALTHCARE, risk, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, Strategy; Research articles 2008-02-13
Real estate practice in the twenty-first century: I. INTRODUCTION The next century will bring profound changes in real estate law and in the ways that it is practiced. This prediction may seem rather unremarkable for any area of law or for almost any other area of human endeavor. But the changes in real estate law will...; Tags: FINANCE, Freddie Mac, lawyer, mortgage, Mortgages, Restatement, Risk, securitization, U.S., U.S. Congress; Research articles 2007-09-22

The demand for life insurance in OECD countries: ABSTRACT This article examines the determinants of life insurance consumption in OECD countries. Consistent with previous results, we find a significant positive income elasticity of life insurance demand. Demand also increases with the number of dependents and level of education, and decreases with life expectancy and social security expenditure....; Tags: Beck, Campbell, FINANCE, GMM, income, inflation, Insurance, Lewis, OECD, Risk; Research articles 2007-09-01
Ph.D. recipients by subject, 2006: Agricultural and Food Policy: regulation, taxation, welfare Amarasinghe, Anura, West Virginia University, "A Socioeconomic and Spatial Analysis of Obesity in West Virginia: Policy Implications." Behl, Ajay Singh, University of Minnesota, "A Framework for Analyzing the Impact of the Means-Tested Transfer Programs on Interfamily and Intrafamily Transfers and the...; Tags: analysis, Auburn University, China, Clemson University, Environmental, Farm, food, Manufacturing, North Carolina State University, Ohio State University, Oregon State University, Poverty, Purdue University, Risk, Texas A&M University, U.S., University of California, University of California at Berkeley, University of Maryland, Washington State University, WELFARE, West Virginia University; Research articles 2007-08-01
Yes, Virginia, There Really is a Retirement-Savings Crisis: Research From Center for Retirement Research at Boston College Indicates Nearly 45 Percent of Households Won't Have Enough Retirement Income COLUMBUS, Ohio -- One year after launching its National Retirement Risk Index, the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College today released a new Index report that confirms most...; Tags: 401(k), Benefits, Boston College, FINANCE, income, Investment, Risk, Taxes, worker; Research articles 2007-07-31
"But I Know It's True": Environmental Risk Assessment, Justice, and Anthropology: Few social issues depend as heavily on scientific information as environmental problems. Yet activists, governmental officials, corporate entities, and even scientists agree that much of the science behind environmental risk assessments is controversial and uncertain. Using a low-income African-American neighborhood as a primary case example, this paper illustrates in concrete...; Tags: activist, agency, Benefits, chemicals, Environmental, HEALTHCARE, M., Risk, scientist, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, Strategy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Research articles 2007-07-01
Disaster management in the United States: examining key political and policy challenges.: The failures associated with the Hurricane Katrina response call attention to the challenges of, and the need to better understand disaster management practices in the United States. This article reviews several recent contributions to the field of disaster research and considers four key issues: the concept of disaster vulnerability, how...; Tags: Federal Emergency Management Agency, hazard, Katrina, mitigation, Resilience, Risk, U.S., Van, vulnerability; Research articles 2007-05-01
Controlling Corporate Risk Through Sabotage: Every executive is in the business of controlling risk, or harms, but doing so is both a skill and an art that few of us practice. Corporate risk comes in many forms: pricing moves by a competitor, a product liability lawsuit, departure of a talented manager, a...; Tags: Sean Silverthorne, Management, Security, Strategy, Malcolm Sparrow, Knot, Risk; Blog posts 2008-06-23
Should Google Shoot Sergey Brin Into Space?: Should Google Shoot Sergey Brin Into Space?Rubbish in ERM StatememtsLOL...I like this article. I could not help but chuckle at the irony of bolting Sergey to earth as punishment for putting self serving rubbish in their ERM. I hope the board delivers a good chunk of board time...; Tags: ERM, Google Inc., risk, Sergey Brin; Discussion threads 2008-06-12
The economics of homeland security expenditures: foundational expected cost-effectiveness approaches: I. INTRODUCTION All levels of the government and the private sector have increased their security expenditures in the wake of the attack of September 11, 2001, and the continuing uncertainty regarding new attacks. To date, traditional economic concerns about the efficient allocation of resources appear to have played a...; Tags: allocation, attack, attacker, C, General Accounting Office, Government, investment, Risk, SECURITY; Research articles 2007-01-01
Safe and sound banking twenty years later: what was proposed and what has been adopted.: In 1986 a task force of banking academies organized and sponsored by the American Bankers Association convened to examine the banking industry and the efficacy of its regulatory system. The group was charged with reviewing the problems of ensuring the safety and soundness of the banking...; Tags: agency, bank, Banking, FDIC, Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, financial, Insurance, regulation, risk, supervision, Treasury; Research articles 2007-01-01
Looking for hidden value: Keiron Root meets an investment trust manager who focuses on the virtues of cash generation: When the announcement was made a couple of months ago that the management of the Merrill Lynch Asset Allocator investment trust was moving to Invesco Perpetual, there was much attention drawn to the fact that Mark Barnett would now be running the UK equity portfolio of that trust. For Barnett...; Tags: dividend, equity, FINANCE, income, Invesco, Investment, Risk, stock, U.K., valuation; Research articles 2007-01-01
Make risk management and internal control work for you: by tailoring an integrated, business-process-based template solution, small companies can address risks and controls in a cost-effective manner, whether or not SOX compliance is mandated: Smaller companies are avoiding risk management and internal control efforts because they hope that the Securities & Exchange Commission SEC won't require them to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act SOX. They are frightened by reports of the high cost of compliance activities, such as more than 2% of revenue reported...; Tags: Associated Press, CFO, compliance, Conduct, financial, monitoring, payables, performance, Risk, team; Research articles 2006-12-01
Bushfire risk will double if emissions continue to rise.: Byline: Wendy Frew Nov 06, 2006 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Macquarie University research shows there is a 25 increase in the risk of extreme bushfires in New South Wales by 2050. This exists irrespective of efforts to mitigate...; Tags: emission, Government, Macquarie University, risk, Strategy; Research articles 2006-11-06
Professional advocacy update: Greetings from the world of professional advocacy. Many developments have materialized since my first article appeared in the August 2006 issue of Strategic Finance. When I began my career with the Institute on May 1, 2006, professional advocacy was viewed as one of IMA's strategic initiatives. Because we have experienced...; Tags: accountant, accounting, career, FINANCE, financial, Financial Accounting Standards Board, Risk, SEC; Research articles 2006-11-01
The Biology of Bubbles and Crashes: The Find: Recent research finds that male hormones might help explain the risk-taking behavior that underlies market bubbles and crashes The Source: Research from the University of Cambridge in this week's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The Takeaway: Women...; Tags: Jessica Stillman, Management, Human Resources, Strategy, Gender And Diversity, Biology, Trader, Risk, Women; Blog posts 2008-04-16
Subjective economic risk to beneficiaries in notional defined contribution accounts: ABSTRACT This article aims to quantify the aggregate subjective economic risk to which beneficiaries would be exposed if a retirement pension system based on notional account philosophy were introduced. We use scenario generation techniques to make projections of the factors that determine the real expected internal rate of return...; Tags: ASCII, aversion, beneficiary, Benefits, deviation, financial, indice, M., Palmer, Pension, pension, Reform, Risk, Spain, women, World Bank; Research articles 2006-09-01