Risk management
Pilot study: Learning about risk management from the RAF
Risk disciplines at the UK's Royal Air Force face similar challenges to the financial sector
Pemex ramps up risk management amid energy reform
Mexican state-owned oil giant weighs up commodity hedging strategies
Slow down, make friends and have faith, panel tells top risk managers
CROs from top insurers spell out how to excel in their role
Gender equality on bank boards and financial performance
Post-crisis push for better female board representation paying off
Energy traders must adapt or die, warns E.on risk head
Recession, regulation and renewables are main worries, says Port
Post-crisis push for more women on bank boards succeeding
Female representation on boards linked to improved business performance
Risk Books: Risk Transparency
Sanjay Sharma talks about risk transparency and how his book helps achieve it.
Portfolio construction and systematic trading with factor entropy pooling
Construction of large portfolios consistent with investors' views and stress test scenarios is a challenging task, considering the volume of information to be processed. Attilio Meucci, David Ardia and Marcello Colasante introduce a technique that…
Volatility products within family office portfolio: keep it simple or minimise risk in other ways?
A well-diversified portfolio could be better for controlling risk than volatility investments, according to members of the family office industry.
Applied risk management series: Integrating stress tests with risk management
Stress testing is a vital part of successful risk management, but risk managers at energy trading firms frequently face obstacles in designing and implementing successful stress testing programmes. In this article, Carlos Blanco provides some advice on…
An exclusive look at Commodity Investing and Trading
A new book, Commodity Investing and Trading, is now on sale from Risk Books. Energy Risk provides an exclusive preview
Insurers urged to prepare global risk management strategies
Sars outbreak 'showed insurers not immune to interconnected global crises', says AIG Asia-Pac deputy finance chief
Enhancing the value chain
Sponsored Q&A: Misys Sophis
Regulators refocus on risk data fundamentals
Focus on fundamentals
Banks still battling with sales-driven culture, survey finds
Latest EY risk management survey finds risk culture questions remain
Bank supervision gets personal as UK focuses on accountability
Regulators and politicians in the UK want bankers to be more accountable for mistakes made by themselves and their teams. But while supervisors are trying to expand the existing sanctions regime, politicians are seeking a more radical overhaul. Lukas…
Cyber threat being ignored, former MI5 head warns
Manningham-Buller tells conference many are not recognising the cyber threat
Sponsored webinar: Responding to the US Orsa challenge
A panel of experts discuss the requirements of the Risk Management Own Risk and Solvency Assessment Model Act and how insurers can effectively prepare for it
EU bonus cap doubted by industry experts
1:2 maximum is "poorly thought through"
FSA should develop social media guidance, legal expert warns
US FFIEC, meanwhile, releases proposed guidance on social media
Insurance Risk North America: Insurers must 'break addiction to policy guarantees' in low-rate environment
Lack of product innovation means not enough products work in the low interest rate environment, panellists complain
Risk management being complicated by regulation, expert tells forum
Risk managers are facing greater complexity because of regulation and other issues, Ferma is told