Risk

Controlling Public Corporations

Opinion/Analysis; The financial problems we are experiencing now have a number of historical roots, including changes to ownership of public corporations.

August 31, 2009

6 min read

Risk

Fighting Fraud with Advanced Analytics

Property and casualty insurance fraud is estimated to be a Cdn$1.3-billion business, making detection and prevention through advanced technology an important cost-saving strategy.

August 31, 2009

7 min read

Risk

Protection from Covert Ops

Any insurer that puts the customer ahead of its corporate protection strategy earns the business it seeks.

August 31, 2009

4 min read

Risk

Model Predictions

Opinion/Analysis; Country risk models are a case study in how financial risk models led us into a credit crisis.

August 31, 2009

8 min read

Risk

Upcoming Events:

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August 31, 2009

4 min read

Risk

Risk Management (August 01, 2009)

ADOPTION OF ERM PLATEAUS The adoption of enterprise risk management (ERM) seems to have reached a plateau at 65% of firms, according to a joint Marsh and Risk and Insurance Management Society report. In the sixth annual Excellence in Risk Management VI: Strategic Risk Management in Practice, 450 risk managers were surveyed during 2009 Q1 […]

July 31, 2009

1 min read

Risk

Reinsurance (August 01, 2009)

PARTNER RE TO ACQUIRE PARIS RE HOLDINGS PartnerRe Ltd. has inked a US$2-billion,’multi-step transaction’ that will see it acquire Paris Re Holdings Limited. In the first step of the transaction, expected to close in 2009 Q4, PartnerRe will acquire the shares held by several significant shareholders — including Stone Point Capital and Caisse Depot et […]

July 31, 2009

2 min read

Risk

Regulation (August 01, 2009)

CANADIAN FIRMS LAG BEHIND IN IFRS CONVERSION Despite the fast-approaching Jan. 1, 2011 deadline for the implementation of international financial reporting standards (IFRS), more than 12% of public companies and 20% of the private com- panies surveyed by PricewaterhouseCoopers have not yet taken the first step in the conversion process. PwC surveyed 256 companies — […]

July 31, 2009

2 min read

Risk

Stretching the Role of Risk Management

Terry Fleming, who is likely to become RIMS president in January 2010, is open to the idea of risk management expanding beyond its traditional frontiers.

July 31, 2009

5 min read

Risk

Underwriting Freedom

Kidnapping company representatives for ransom has become a modern-day scourge, and kidnap and ransom insurance policies are quietly offering victims a way out.

July 31, 2009

6 min read

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