Three propositions: Insurance Companies can be systemic importance; Insurance companies should be subject to tougher regulation and supervision; Risks should be assessed on a group-wise basis...

Leader's Statement of the G20 Pittsburgh Summit, What's Systemic Risk, Framework for Mitigating Systemic Risk, Japanese Safety-net for Deposit-taking Financial Institutions...

Financial crisis an insurance, Ten consequences for Risk Management and Supervision, Conclusion regarding an IGF...

IACPM is a non-profit industry association developed to Further the management of credit exposures by providing a forum for members to exchange ideas, foster research on credit portolio management, represent members before legislative and admistrative bodies...

Financial firms have a vast array of possible investments to choose from and products to sell. The financial market changes fast and in the future will likely look very different than in the past. Risk Management in general has the tendency to lag behind these innovation since it is often much...

Before - The use of ratings; During- Responses, Reactions, Lessons Learnt; After- BReakouts, Conclusions...

Why was risk management not effective in preventing financial institutions from bubbles in the past? 1. Because the emerge of the bubbles were not recognized at all. 2. Because risk managers did not have sufficient authority to stop the nonsense....

Rating agencies learned their lessons, insurance ratings less affected than other (banks, MBS), insurance ratings will remain an important part of financial markets...until a new black swan emerges...

The IMF and Insurance; Lessons from the crisis; Issues for insurance...

Much has been written in the press about the current global credit crisis and the consequences on the real economy. We want to take a step back and take stock of what we think should be the lessons learnt from an investment practicioner's point of view in order to avoid repeating the same...