Description: A collection of essays that discuss the principles and ideas underpinning the ORSA initiative and the risk metrics used for decision making.

Description: Description of an ERM workshop delivered in Nigeria by Actuaries Without Borders in collaboration with the College of Insurance and Financial Management.

Description: There appears to be many similarities between enterprise risk management techniques and the theory underlying the unified valuation system UVS. What are the challenges of each, and can the methods learn from each other? From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 2: Toronto Spring Meeting.June 20–22, 2001, Session 58PD.

Description: A discussion of the possible effort required and impacts resulting from the implementation of C3 Phase II for establishing risk-based capital for variable annuities. This article will describe practical considerations gleaned from actual valuation calculations recently performed by a consulting firm.

Description: discussion of the capital management alternatives for funding the additional reserves required due to Actuarial Guideline XXX

Description: This study presents a new framework which can measure integrated marked risk and credit risk for portfolios consisting of various assets through continuous time horizons. In a simulation, the study shows that asset type, initial rating, time horizon and asset return distribution assumptions are all significant factors to influence the portfolio value distributions and hence the integrated VaRs. From 2007 Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, M-AS07-1.

Description: The Strategic Risk Register System SRRS is proposed by the authors as a new approach to modeling and visualizing the interconnectivity of risks in an ERM context. SRRS has been successfully applied in practice, and a case study is deployed to demonstrate the methodology.

Description: Introduction and table of contents of essay collection.

Description: When an insurer classifies risks for the purpose of setting rates, one of the goals is to achieve equity. In general, however, inequities can be introduced when only certain factors are considered and others ignored. This paper, guided by ideas used by economists to measure income inequality, proposes a method of measuring this inequity. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1987, Vol. 39.

Description: Discussion of the movement toward principle-based reserves for LTC insurance.