Description: This article provides an overview of the Own Risk and Solvency Assessment (ORSA) model act, and of enterprise risk management (ERM). Compared to other actuarial disciplines, health actuaries have not historically focused as much on ERM. But health coverages do have risks that can threaten an insurer's solvency, and ORSA (now in force in most states) will force health insurers to beef up their ERM capabilities.

Description: Research report describing the results of an Emerging Risks Survey conducted in 2016. The report, the tenth in a series, includes comparisons to the previous surveys.

Description: Since health care reform has made accountable care organizations a hot topic, an SOA workgroup is addressing relevant questions, including provider risk under various ACO models, limitations of the Medicare model for motivating change in the health care delivery system, strategic priorities, attribution of members, meaurement, and the roles actuaries can play.

Description: The purpose of the article is to highlight how a person or organization can excel in both a highly-competitive expert-driven environment and one where the environment is less so. One should focus on what can be done well and delegate the remaining tasks to those who are better at performing them. One should understand the environment they are operating in, how it impacts them, and how it may change through time. The principles have application to investment management, investment performance, organizational performance, business development, career progression and economics.

Description: Article Book Review The Future Of Risk by Calvert in The Actuary, December 1979, Volume 13, Number 10

Description: Research report describing the results of an Emerging Risks Survey conducted in 2013. The report includes comparisons to the five previous surveys as well as a survey sent to INARM members in April 2008.

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Description: This monograph was presented at the 2011 Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, held March 14-16 in Chicago. The author, noting that ‘strategy is a source of risk to the firm and thus ought to be included within enterprise risk management [ERM], enterprise risk analysis and measurement of the firm’s value, proposes a detailed framework in which strategic considerations can be incorporated into a quantitative model of the firm.

Description: Research report describing the results of an Emerging Risks Survey conducted in 2012. The report includes comparisons to the four previous surveys as well as a survey sent to INARM members in April 2008.

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