Description: Risk based pricing addresses some of the shortcomings of traditional pricing methods by providing a framework for understanding the tradeoffs between shareholder risks and rewards using a robust, transparent and objective economic methodology that is consistent across products.

Description: This article talks about the role that models played in the subprime meltdown and the subsequent crisis in the financial markets in general. The models failed to provide information about the magnitude of potential 'black swans'. Extreme Value Theory [EVT] is described as a potential solution to this error.

Description: In this article, the author discusses earthquake modeling.

Description: Listing and description of key articles in August 2011 issue of Risk Management. Topics include Predictive Modeling, Risk management and Solvency II.

Description: Book review of Extreme Risk Management: Revolutionary Approaches to Evaluating and Measuring Risk by author Christina Ray.

Description: The editor of the Risk Management newsletter summarizes the articles in this issue which cover Enterprise Risk Management, Systemic Risk and Variable Annuities.

Description: Most, if not all, ERM frameworks recognize the added value that the quantification of risk brings to the overall risk management process. This paper discusses the need for the development of a quantification framework, which is a clear opportunity for the actuarial and mathematical communities. From 2006 Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, M-AS06-1.

Description: This paper uses accounting data of the life insurance industry in 2003 to examine the empirical relationship between the spectrum of enterprise risks and the spectrum of enterprise risk management tools of this industry.

Description: 2011 ERM Symposium, Chicago. This is the abstract of the entitled paper.

Description: 2011 Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, Chicago. This paper uses a case-study research design looking at two companies: Infosys and Rolls-Royce Corp. The goal of the research is to develop an explanation of how ERM brings about the strategic implications or its “promise” as it is popularly known in the ERM circle. The influential factors and how they are linked to the ERM process of achieving strategic implications are highlighted.