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I reference a post by Beaumont Vance once where he suggests all risk managers should introduce themselves as fortune tellers as cocktail parties. In this recent blog post from Riskview, the author points out: Criticisms of risk managers for not anticipating some emerging future are overdone. When a major unexpected loss happens, everyone missed it. [...]

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If you have not had a chance to read this gem, have a look at John Adams’ “Making God laugh: a risk management tutorial“. He writes: The words “risk” and “management” sit uncomfortably alongside each other. Many people believe that it is possible to distinguish “real”, “actual” or “objective” risk from “perceived” risk. But all [...]

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In a survey conducted during the Fall of 2007 by The Conference Board of Canada titled, “Who Reads What Most Often? A Survey of Enterprise Risk Management Literature Read by Risk Executives”, authors listed the top ten articles used by leading ERM practitioners (in order of year published). I’ve reprinted the list here with links [...]

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The following was written by Beaumont Vance and taken from Risk Management Reports (July 2007): The next time someone at a cocktail party asks what you do for a living, say you increase profit through fortune telling. If nothing else, it will lead to a more interesting conversation than you would have if you replied, [...]

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The following post is a summary of an article written by Beaumont Vance in Risk Management Reports (February 2008) where he drew comparisons between the role of the Left Tackle (described in Michael Lewis’s book The Blind Side) and the future of risk professionals. All portions from Vance’s article are in italics. Vance writes: Up [...]

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