I received an email from Felix Kloman last Friday. If you do not know about Mr. Kloman’s work, then I strongly suggest that you click on the Felix Kloman (Legend) link in my Blogroll to find his Risk Management…
Review of Keith Baxter’s book Fast Track to Success: Risk Management
When Keith Baxter published his book Fast Track to Success: Risk Management, I tweeted to him I would read it during the Christmas break last year then review it. At that time I was about halfway through 4100 pages of…
Which risk tolerance vs that risk appetite
Like many of you, I received a request from The Institute of Risk Management to comment on a consultation paper they prepared called “Risk Appetite and Risk Tolerance”. Great title. It’s not my intention to opine on the paper here.…
Football, hockey and enterprise risk management
Riskviews writes a great post called Football is about more than just Shoes. He writes that the “equipment never wins the game” but a “team without proper equipment has only a slim chance of prevailing.” Riskviews also reiterates a point…
Rick Nason asks you to snap your fingers
Risk Nason, one of the members of Riskczar’s Secret League of Extraordinary Risk Gentlemen, asks his readers if they could snap their fingers and switch places with anyone in the world, who would it be. Similarly, he asks if you…
Risk Containment – Who cares about the Euro
Hey folks, as many of you may have noticed, I haven’t been writing to much lately. I admit it’s a combination of being busy while trying to get through all the Harry Potter books before the last movie comes out…
Basel III and the sugar tax
Have a read at this post my Twitter chum Don van Deventer co-wrote on his alma mater’s blog site called Basel III and the Problems with Risk Management by Excel. Despite Don writing an excellent piece that includes a Basel…
Risk Containment on silly business recovery tales
I was catching up on my risk management blog reading over the weekend and present to you a post from Risk Containment about the silly bank whose disaster recovery scenario had them move to a different part of the same…
Meeting #1 of Riskczar’s Secret League of Extraordinary Risk Gentlemen
The first clandestine gathering of my Secret League of Extraordinary Risk Gentlemen was just conducted, however only Rick Nason was able to make it for lunch. The future of risk management as you know it is subject to change without…
White swan vs black swan
I received a nice email from John Fraser the other day, thanking me spreading the good word about ERM through this website. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Mr. Fraser, he co-wrote what I consider to be the…