Description: From a session at the 2000 Valuation Actuary Symposium held in Washington DC, September 14-15, 2000 Panelists discuss low probability high impact events: how these risks are identified what tools are available to measure the risk techniques used to manage the risk in an integrated fashion.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. Attendees learn about tools used to manage enterprise risk and optimize firm value. Potential topics include economic surplus, earnings at risk, and law of one price. Attendees learn how various risk-management tools can complement each other.

Description: Presentation from the Actuarial Research Conference describing risk management at a leading Canadian Bank.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. Panelists identify the risks and risk-mitigating actions that an insurer can take. Approaches discussed include reinsurance, investment programs and offsetting risks in one product against those in others.

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 A discussion of liquidity management for life insurance companies marketing institutional clients, in particular with respect to GIC contracts and Funding agreements. Topics included: · What happened at General American with their defaults on funding agreements. Why did the regulators and rating agencies miss the problems? · What was the impact of reinsurance? · What is the effect of adding institutional business such as putable funding agreements on liquidity management? · Are there prudent levels of this business that can be beneficial? · What is the effect of funding agreements with downgrade provisions on liquidity risks, and do such provisions create a preference for sophisticated institutional contract holders?

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. The panel identifies the risks in various life products and the product development actions that can enable an insurer to manage the risks.

Description: This session summarizes enterprise risk management [ERM], how health insurers are facing scrutiny and learing to apply risk management based on observations in the life insurance industry and how to implement an ERM program. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 1, Session 24

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. Discusses managing risks via product design and investment strategy, and overview of the market and the risks.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This session provides varying perspectives on corporate approaches to the macro management of risk. In this paper, areas such as risk identification, asset/liability management structure, and secular trend analysis will be discussed.

Description: Panelists discuss some of the latest developments and actuarial involvement in the area of risk management for insurance companies. Included is a discussion of value-at-risk [VAR]. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.