Description: Comments on Robert North’s paper, a real case study of disclosing MVL in a public employee retirement system.

Description: The five words for ERM are transparency, discipline, alignment, adaptability and resilience. This article focuses on transparency, discipline and resilience.

Description: As equity markets decline and become more volatile, the likelihood of significant guaranteed benefit claims increases, while increases from mortality and expense fees declines. The article illustrates how to use a derivative contract, a properly structured total return swap, to turn a company's uncertain M&E revenue patterns into predictable revenue.

Description: What Do You Mean You Are An FRM From GARP? by David N. Ingram from Risks and Rewards Newsletter, February 2002, Issue No. 38.

Description: This paper outlines a risk measurement framework in which risk measures are derived by qualifying cash-flow-based risk measures on the state of the firm's debt capacity. This risk framework overcomes some of the weaknesses of the popular 'at-risk' framework. From 2007 Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, M-AS07-1.

Description: The intent of this paper is the analysis of the influence of risk that took place during winter and summer 2006 on economic results of utilities selling power to final customers. Efficient risk management requires the restructuring of the approach to company management. From 2007 Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, M-AS07-1.

Description: A response to the comments on the paper.

Description: An Overview of Stochastic Simulation modeling techniques and usages

Description: The paper focuses on value creation for European health insurance companies through the practical application of integrated ERM frameworks.

Description: Much of the push for ERM has come from regulators and rating agencies, but it is being applied in internal company decision-making as well. This paper reviews the progress made and the needs still outstanding in two key areas of application: optimal capital level for an insurer and risk-adjusted profitability of business units. The basic conclusion is that progress has been made in these areas, but more is needed. Building models is not emphasized—it will be assumed that a state-of-the art model is available. The emphasis is on using such models in decision-making.