Description: Risk Magnification does exist and needs to be considered in the risk aggregation and risk management processes.

Description: Optimization of the liabilities to minimize the required capital, enhance the enterprise risk management and maximizing the shareholder value.

Description: Institutional investors seeking to hedge have no shortage of choices, and need the right framework to manage the different risks in portfolios as they arise. This article analyzes performance of different equity hedging strategies over the last 15 years, and lays out a potential hedging framework that takes into account types of risks being hedged, fundamental views, and current market pricing of protection.

Description: Highlight of the ERM Symposium

Description: Update of the activities being carried out by the Joint Risk Management Section

Description: We can do a better job of communicating the degree of "riskiness" that is inherent in our models of risk. The "Coefficient of Risk" is one way to present fatness of model tails in simple terms using widely understood basic concepts.

Description: An exploration of Canada’s federal regulator of financial institutions (OSFI) and its more formal assessment of the actuarial function of insurers.

Description: The letter from the editor discusses some recent loss events driven by model error and provides an overview of the articles in this issue of Risk Management.

Description: Update of the activities being carried out by the Joint Risk Management Section

Description: The article explores the possibility of using the emerging technology for life insurers to build a monitor system for better risk and profitability management.