Description: In this article, the author talks about how China’s insurance industry is entering a transitional period characterized by greater focus on risk management and governance.

Description: This paper examines the concept on an Enterprise Risk Management Office, ERMO, and is investigated relative to the project management office, PMO, another enterprise-wide entity that has evolved in corporations. Guidelines and best practices for an ERMO are also suggested. From 2006 Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, M-AS06-1.

Description: Objective: to provide benchmarking information to companies address needs of internal stakeholders in cost-effectively conducting/implementing an ORSA process.

Description: In this article, the author discusses financial regulation and the financial crisis.

Description: The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) is moving forward to implement a new regulatory requirement that requires U.S. insurers to perform an Own Risk and Solvency Assessment (ORSA). Before developing a response to the ORSA requirement, insurers will want to understand its genesis and the underlying rationale for it, as well as its implications. This essay provides an overview of the evolution and rationale for ORSA, as well as practical implications for insurers as they begin to design an ORSA process. Part of the essay collection "Risk Metrics for Decision Making and ORSA"

Description: The objective of this report is to provide benchmarking information that will help companies address the needs of internal stakeholders in cost-effectively conducting and implementing an ORSA process. In order to obtain this benchmarking information, a cross-disciplinary survey was conducted to find out what insurance companies understand and expect from an ORSA, the effort required to complete an ORSA, and the benefits from doing so. This survey was undertaken on a global basis, with participants that included life, property and casualty (P&C), often referred to as "non-life" or "general" insurers in territories such as Europe, and health insurance companies in North America (the United States and Canada), Europe, and Asia.

Description: AHIP commissioned the Menges Group to write this white paper on key pressures in the budgetary environment that stress the actuarial soundness of Medicaid rates. Though written by non-actuaries, this white paper thoroughly describes key professionalism topics that face Medicaid actuaries in their daily work.