Description: This report summarizes the major findings from the 14th (2020) emerging risk survey.

Description: This survey attempts to track the thoughts of risk managers about emerging risks across time. It is the 14th survey of emerging risks sponsored by the Canadian Institute of Actuaries (CIA), Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) and Society of Actuaries (SOA). The researcher thanks the Financial Reporting and Reinsurance Sections for their financial support, and the Joint Risk Management Section for logistics and governance.

Description: This article summarizes the results of the eleventh annual survey of emerging risks.

Description: This is the full research report for the thirteenth Emerging Risk Survey which summarizes the results of the survey.

Description: Since 2008 the Joint Risk Management Section, sponsored in partnership by the Canadian Institute of Actuaries (CIA), Society of Actuaries (SOA) and Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS), has annually conducted a Survey of Emerging Risks. As the researcher for this project, I have asked open-ended questions thought to be useful to risk managers. Andy Grove noted the importance of viewing problems from an outsider’s perspective. After a strategy he implemented had struggled, he hypothesized how the strategy would change if he was fired. This paper summarizes activities that are perceived as adding value by risk managers. Each company is unique based on the skill set of the risk team and needs of the firm, many of which are strategic and can be fulfilled through well thought out scenario testing. These can be split into eight themes.

Description: The goal of this paper is to examine similarities between value investing and enterprise risk management (ERM) methods.

Description: The goal of this paper is to examine similarities between value investing and enterprise risk management (ERM) methods.

Description: This report presents the major findings from the eleventh annual Emerging Risks survey.

Description: The Joint Risk Management Section conducted its fourth survey of emerging risks in fall 2010 in light of the BP oil spill which brought the impact of various risk combinations to the fore.

Description: GDP growth has slowed as numerous headwinds have emerged. This article summarizes a research paper by Mark Alberts and Max Rudolph that addresses reasons why this is so and how risk managers can address using scenarios.