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A Tale of Improperly Placed Incentives
A Tale of Improperly Placed Incentives Arguably, many of the fundamental contributing factors to the 2008 mortgage crisis involved misdirected incentives and misinformation available to key ...- Authors: Sam Gutterman
- Date: Dec 2008
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Risk Management
- Topics: Economics; Enterprise Risk Management
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There is No Free Lunch
There is No Free Lunch This crisis first started with subprime loans and quickly morphed into a credit crisis that eventually engulfed a lot of financial institutions around the world. If a AAA ...- Authors: Daniel Hui
- Date: Dec 2008
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Risk Management
- Topics: Economics
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An Ideal Crisis
An Ideal Crisis Modern economies are based on the premise that all the main players look after themselves. The bankruptcy and limited liability laws gave property speculators and banks a put ...- Authors: Shane Francis Whelan
- Date: Dec 2008
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Risk Management
- Topics: Enterprise Risk Management
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Derivatives, AIG and the Future of Enterprise Risk Management
Derivatives, AIG and the Future of Enterprise Risk Management As one highly rated financial firm after another blows up, what is the right conclusion to draw about enterprise risk management ERM? ...- Authors: Michael G Wacek
- Date: Dec 2008
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Risk Management
- Topics: Enterprise Risk Management
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The Human Touch Underlying the Current Financial Crisis
The Human Touch Underlying the Current Financial Crisis This article presents a hypothesis that the market cycles are primarily created by human actions, behavior and assumptions rather than by ...- Authors: Vivek Gupta
- Date: Dec 2008
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Risk Management
- Topics: Economics
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Actuaries Would Have Made a Difference
Actuaries Would Have Made a Difference In the current financial markets turmoil, it is tempting to ask whether things might have turned out differently. I think the pain in our financial markets ...- Authors: W James MacGinnitie
- Date: Dec 2008
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Risk Management
- Topics: Actuarial Profession
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Reaffirming Your Company’s Commitment to ERM in Light of the Financial Crisis
Reaffirming Your Company’s Commitment to ERM in Light of the Financial Crisis The current financial crisis underscores the need for companies to take a sobering look at their approach to risk ...- Authors: Prakash A Shimpi
- Date: Dec 2008
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Risk Management
- Topics: Enterprise Risk Management
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Transparency and Liability Valuation
Transparency and Liability Valuation Here we are led to draw a distinction between “wild” markets and “free” markets. A wild market is unregulated and unscrutinized. Information flows are ...- Authors: Philip E Heckman
- Date: Dec 2008
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Risk Management
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting
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Modeling and Managing Liquidity Risk
Modeling and Managing Liquidity Risk Property-liability insurers use reinsurance as a cost-efficient substitute for capital, but in a disruptive event, reinsurance prices and availability can ...- Authors: Gary G Venter
- Date: Dec 2008
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Risk Management
- Topics: Enterprise Risk Management
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An Industry in Question, A Profession with Answers
An Industry in Question, A Profession with Answers The central question is that of viability. Specifically, is the configuration of life insurers’ products and balance sheets economically viable ...- Authors: James Ramenda
- Date: Dec 2008
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Risk Management
- Topics: Enterprise Risk Management; Financial Reporting & Accounting