Description: The editors provide highlights of the articles included in the April 2016 issue of Risk Management.

Description: This article summarizes the highlights of the 2014 Emerging Risk Survey. This is the 8th survey and this short article focuses on trends and top risks selected.

Description: Read the August 2016 issue of Risk Management published by the Joint Risk Management Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: Update on research activities.

Description: Based on interviews with C-level executives, this report offers insights on the role and actions of the global insurance industry in addressing climate change

Description: Hear from the editor on the March 2018 issue of Risk Management published by the JRMS.

Description: The paper discusses the arguments supporting the need for risk culture to transition into ERM culture to be embedded across financial organizations. Creating and maintaining strong ERM culture is paramount to a lasting and meaningful ERM program. It is essential for organizations to understand what ERM culture is, how it gets established and in what way affects the process of ERM implementation. Often, the implications of financial enterprises not focusing on the significance of ERM culture manifested in severely compromised ability to generate sustainable value and market competitive advantage. This paper calls for rethinking the role of ERM culture in the context of managing risks.

Description: A framework to measure and evaluate the risk-adjusted investment performance given the characteristics of the insurance liability.

Description: The article discusses modeling of variable annuity behavior risk, with a particular focus on how interaction between different behavioral assumptions complicates modeling. The article gives a brief overview of variable annuity behavior risk, discusses the challenges that behavioral interactions pose for VA modeling, and discusses three potential solutions for dealing with this complexity.

Description: An excerpt from the SOA-sponsored research report of the same title. This article describes three elements of a strategic pension risk management framework: adjusting corporate financial metrics for corporate pension plan; the trade-off between pension risk and capital; empirical evidence of how corporate pension plans impact stock prices or credit spreads