Description: Update on issues, priorities and key messages from the Joint CAS / CIA / SOA Risk Management Section Council.

Description: Provides summary of qualitative factors in the current fiscal, economic and political environment that could lead to higher inflation.

Description: The author suggests ways to strengthen a company's enterprise risk management process, including the development of an "effective resilience factor," a risk metric that reflects an organization’s exposure and response to an adverse event, and measures the ability of the organization to mitigate the reduction in its operating level.

Description: Editors discuss the articles in this issue.

Description: Other articles that will be of interest to readers.

Description: Risk management and capital budgeting are two critical components of the corporate decision process. They often need to be considered jointly at the corporate level because of their natural interaction through the dependent risk exposures and other synergetic relationships within an intricate corporate structure in a dynamic business environment. . This paper develops an integrated framework that aligns these two important corporate strategies across business divisions to optimize the streamlined enterprise strategic goal in a multi-period setting. The proposed integrated framework can serve as a practical guideline for corporate executives to optimally coordinate capital budgeting and risk management at the enterprise level.

Description: Based upon Salim Ismael's keynote address at the SOA Annual meeting in Austin as well as his book Exponential Organizations, this article discusses the disruptive power of two significant trends: the transformative power of new, scalable technology, and the generational shifts caused by Boomers leaving the workforce and Millennials' rise to prominence.

Description: A discussion of the hidden costs of bringing innovative products to market, including the costs of expertise gaps and opportunity costs

Description: This article deals with enterprise risk management and how the techniques contained within the discipline can help prevent unforeseen large mistakes in strategy, product design, and product management

Description: Disruptive innovation are revolutionising many indusrties. How will it affect insurance?