Description: Summary of recent SOA-sponsored research on Enterprise Risk Management practices as applied to health insurers, self-insured plans, and health finance professionals.

Description: At this time of economic distress, companies throughout the world are intensely focused on upgrading their risk management capabilities, as are their home country regulators. This article explores one example of how a part of this transformation was accomplished for several major Korean insurers.

Description: This article on developing effective risk management strategies to protect your organization looked at the following topics: • Successfully identifying, assessing and managing risks for all stakeholders. • Identifying the appropriate strategy for your particular needs. • Ensuring the governance body understands risk. • Developing a risk management framework. • Incorporating risk management into your business planning.

Description: This article is based on the author's discussions with many executives of insurance companies regarding the challenges and limitations in ERM at its current state of evolvement. The following areas need to be addressed and improved on, in the author's opinion, to 'take ERM to the next level': 1. Reconciling Risk Concerns of Creditors and Shareholders. 2. Managing of Operational Risk. 3. Execution Risks. 4. Producing Credible and Useful Risk Adjusted Performance Measures. 5. Aligning Performance Metrics with Management’s Performance Measurement Philosophy.

Description: In this article, the author compares sailing to risk management.

Description: This is a critical juncture to build insurance mechanisms into the architecture of the agreement that will emerge in Copenhagen this year.

Description: The editor introduces the articles in this issue of the Risk Management newsletter, June, 2010. Topics include an IAA project on risk assessment, systemic risk and other risk management subjects.

Description: This article proposes a new term called the risk surface to enhance risk communications.

Description: In this article, the author discusses the future of Risk Management and of the Joint Risk Management Section.

Description: The author encourages those involved in enterprise risk management to look for areas and risks not being considered. He also promotes the activities of the risk management section.