The Faculty & Institute of Actuaries his published a paper called ERM for Insurance Companies – Adding the Investor’s Point of View, on January 22, 2010. The abstract reads: A major outcome of ERM activities in insurance companies has been…
My rant about Toronto pedestrians getting killed
The big story in Toronto this week is the number of pedestrians getting killed by vehicles. An “epidemic”, one no-talent Canadian news anchor who colours his hair said tonight. About 14 people have been killed so far this month (which…
Where are all the risk management jobs?
I’ve been writing this blog almost every day since August and I’ve been rewarded by your positive feedback and over 6000 hits. In this period, I’ve reported about many ERM-related events: the S&P calls ERM “highly important”; while others suggested…
ERM ranks forth on list of management ideas for ’00s
The editors of Harvard Business Review recently published their own top ten list of the last decade calling it “the most influential management ideas of the millennium (so far)” and look what came in at #4. 4. Enterprise Risk Management.…
Aon Global ERM Survey 2010 now available
There is a link on the Aon.com homepage for their latest ERM survey conducted in 2009 Q3. Aon writes: The study was designed to show the extent to which ERM has been successfully implemented across organizations globally; the effect ERM…
Risk management certification: let’s discuss
Tim Leech’s IIA blog discusses some of the many risk management designations and certification available and whether or not one of these may be the cost of entry in the future. I would like to know if anyone out there…
For Toronto readers only
Hello. I am just curious about local traffic to this blog. If you are reading this and from the Southern Ontario/Greater Toronto Area, please drop me a note, or connect with me on LinkedIn. My contact details are in the…
The pledge of a good risk manager
I’ve given some thought to what makes a good risk manager. When I started writing this, it occurred to me that I had seen a lot of those characteristics before. In 2004, the Richard Ivey School of Business at the…
van Deventer: Risk Management Lessons from Lance Armstrong
I would like bring to your attention the blog by Donald van Deventer from the Kamakura Corporation. We may both write about risk management but on a risk management scale, Don is to Thomas Jefferson what I am Bart Simpson.…
Ayds helps you lose weight
I was reminded recently of these appetite suppressant pills that my mom must have purchased when I was a kid in the late 70s. They were called AYDS. Worried about your reputation and your brand? What could be worse that…