The introduction of the accounting standards SFAS 123R and IFRS 2 forexecutive stock options has led to an important change. As companies arenow forced to value their stock options at grant date for accounting purposes,the robustness of prices against the choice of certain valuation models...

This Geneva Association “insurance reader on the credit crisis” has been put togetheras a reaction to the widespread demand for reliable information on and an intellectualappreciation of the insurance sector’s involvement in the credit crisis. Since the end of2007, The Geneva Association...

There are indeed many unknowns: climate science deals in probability and risk, not in certainties. However, if we value the well being of our children and grandchildren, even small risk of catastrophic events merit an insurance-based precautionary approach...

IFC - an overview; IFC in Latin America; IFC and climate change (from risk to opportunity); IFC- why do we care?; Insurance Requirements? IFC's Approach; Risk modeling - the future; Climate-related Products...

This presentation is dedicated to those entrepreneurs and decision makers, who strive or a better life quality for human beings, with a positive search of longer term guarantees to all kinds of lives, with quality emphasis on efficient, effective and equitable processes, for all present and...

Sustainable development in the face of climate change in LAC is as much threatened by the uncontrolled grwoth of the urban areas, and the growth of the urban areas, and the growth of urban poverty and precariousness, as by urban environmental degradation...