Description: The Indian market holds tremendous potential for insurance products, especially in segments that remain untapped. The market is evolving in terms of market penetration, product innovation, regulatory changes, government initiatives, capital adequacy and customer experience. In this report, we have highlighted insurance trends in India based on insights gathered from practitioners' interviews, available research and literature, with a particular focus on the enterprise risk management (ERM) function of insurance companies.

Description: The article discusses how strategic planning and strategic risk management are intertwined.

Description: The money in customer accounts follows a systematic, yet sometimes elaborate maze. This article establishes a check list of 10 item that will ensure that client accounts are being correctly credited, operations are functioning a they were designed and operational risk is reduced.

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. Discusses risk measurement and quantification, cash-flow-based surplus, factors that affect benchmark surplus, how multiple risks can be combined for benchmark surplus, benchmark surplus and the valuation actuary, and uses of benchmark surplus formulas.

Description: This session discussion is about methods for determining and adjusting contingency surplus. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 2.

Description: The initial risk reserves in collective risk models vary according to the underlying claim distribution, and a suitable level of ruin probability. A thorough analysis of the needed initial surplus for various ruin probability levels is provided in eight meaningful examples. The claim distributions are drawn from various fields of insurance, including property damage and liability insurance.

Description: The United States Geological Surv ey USGS released the latest version of its National Seismic Hazard Maps NSHM in April 2008. The maps, which were last updated in 2002, define the latest scientific view of earthquake hazard at varying probability levels across the United States.

Description: Can Bad Culture Kill a Firm? Weak cultures leave firms exposed to risks that formerly had been assessed and mitigated.

Description: In this Editor's Note, the outgoing editor recaps the changes to the newsletter and talks about the future issues.

Description: In this article, the author reviews the award winning papers of the 2009 ERM Symposium Scientific Paper Track. Abstracts of the three winning papers are included covering topics such as ALM issues for Long Term Liabilities, Portfolio Risk, and Market participants' personal view of risks.