While it may appear to be a flagrant act of cross-blog-promotion, here’s Riskview’s brilliant response my post from this week called My appetite for risk and cheesecake. In my piece, I wrote about how my brother wanted to travel to Morocco while protests were…
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…
COSO writes about ERM and where to start
You may be shocked to learn that I have finally read something published by and related to COSO which is worth your time to read. (If you’re familiar with Riskczar’s Blog, you would know that I rag on the COSO…
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…
Social media risk management
Are tools like Facebook, Twitter and texting destroying good old-fashioned face-to-face communication? Have we stopped having beers with our friends because of these social tools? Is there a risk that one day we will only communicate this way? My brother Terry Levine notes…
Take smarter risks
Although my brother and I are equally brilliant and good looking, we couldn’t be more different professionally; but somehow we manage to agree on what risk management should mean. In his blog, the elder Terry Levine quotes Grant McCracken’s Chief Culture Officer:…
Myron Scholes groupies
I had a chance to see Myron Scholes speak in Toronto yesterday. Scholes: from Black-and fame. The option guy. That Nobel Prize guy. (A Canadian by the way!) Before I completed my undergrad in Finance, I studied a lot of…
When risks become issues
Have a look at this recent post by Christine Cromarty at RSD Solutions Inc. about how risks become issues after everything blows up. She writes: How many times have you seen this type of situation occur? When employees have made…
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…