Category Archives: Insurance & Risk Management

The U.S. Experience with No-Fault Automobile Insurance: A Retrospective

No-fault regimes, a formerly popular alternative to the tort compensation system for auto-accident victims, have gradually lost support. Over time, premiums and claim costs have grown in no-fault states relative to other states, primarily driven by explosive medical cost increases. … Continue reading

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Corporate Resiliency: Managing the Growing Risk of Fraud and Corruption

Corporate Resiliency: Managing the Growing Risk of Fraud and Corruption is written for members of boards of directors and audit committees, senior executives, those who advise or report to them, and those responsible for managing fraud and corruption risks. It … Continue reading

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Identifying and Managing Project Risk: Essential Tools for Failure-Proofing Your Project

There’s a good reason project risk management is one of the most vital of the nine content areas of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (TM). Important projects tend to be time constrained, pose huge technical challenges, and suffer from … Continue reading

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Annuity Markets

The Pension Crisis concerns the changing demographic profile of more elderly and fewer young people in the economy. Understanding and tackling this impending crisis is a key task for public policy. An annuity protects an individual from outliving their savings, … Continue reading

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Trading Options For Dummies

Thinking of trading options, but not sure where to start? Trading Options For Dummies starts you from the beginning with clear, step-by-step advice on how to use top option strategies to reduce your risk while boosting your income and enlarging … Continue reading

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Trading Futures For Dummies

Explore single-stock futures, ETFs, and alternative energy futures Protect your assets and maximize your profits in this risky yet lucrative market Want to take advantage of the futures market? This plain-English guide gives you the surefire strategies you need to … Continue reading

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Nanotechnology: Risk, Ethics and Law (Science in Society Series)

· Nanotechnology is the new genetic modification, with $5 billion in funding, involving thousands of companies and universities · This is the first book to take stock of the risks and benefits of nanotechnology, and the complex ethical and legal … Continue reading

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Basel II Implementation: A Guide to Developing and Validating a Compliant, Internal Risk Rating System

Many financial institutions around the world must prove minimum compliance to the Basel II Accord by 2015. For several banks, implementing internal risk rating systems (IRRS) is simply Basel II compliance. However, when carried out with a proper focus on … Continue reading

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Introduction to Executive Protection, Second Edition

Although it is impossible to account and plan for every potential threat, security breach, or scenario that may occur, it is possible to reduce the chance of malevolence claiming the life of your protectee. In the potentially dangerous but highly … Continue reading

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A Trader’s Money Management System: How to Ensure Profit and Avoid the Risk of Ruin (Wiley Trading)

Money management may very well be the most important piece of the trading puzzle. In A Trader’s Money Management System, expert Bennett McDowell provides time-tested techniques that can turn a losing trader into a winning one?and take the winning trader … Continue reading

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