The role of insurance in corporate risk finance.
This paper examines how the use of insurance as a risk
transfer-financing technique affects a corporation's cost of
capital and value. It explores this issue in relation to the conflict of
interest . . .
Risk management as a process: an international
perspective.
This paper examines the impact of various aspects of culture on the
process of risk management. Factors including values and norms,
religion, nationality, and political structures are examined. . . .
Corporate risk management.
Corporate risk management is evolving to be viewed as the
management of the operations and activities of a corporation, and its
financing practices, to construct a portfolio of risks that yield . . .
Auditing, risk management and a post Sarbanes-Oxley
world.(Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
This paper argues that Sarbanes-Oxley is in effect legislated
risk-management. It examines the specifies of the legislation in order
to show that certain requirements clearly fall under the risk . . .
Trends in insurance regulation.
This paper provides an overview of the trends in insurance
regulation over 200 years with emphasis on the most recent risk and
insurance events and regulatory changes. Most recent trends . . .
Emerging trends in risk management: from the corporate
consumer's perspective: an interview with John J. Hampton,
executive dire
The Risk Management and Insurance Society (RIMS) is headquartered
in New York and is a proactive voice on behalf of risk managers,
dedicated to supporting their function. It represents nearly . . .
Emerging trends in risk management: from the insurer's
perspective: an interview with Brian Duperreault, president and CEO of
AC
ACE Limited, headquartered in Bermuda, provides a broad range of
insurance and reinsurance products to insureds worldwide. Through its
various operating subsidiaries, ACE Limited operates in the . . .
From the editors.(preview)
Corporate Risk Management is the focus of this issue, and the
perspectives of two practitioners are provided in the initial executive
interviews. Brian Duperrault, Chairman of the Bermuda-based ACE . . .
Insurers' expansion into banking: thrifts and benefits from
integration.
This article investigates whether insurers that acquire thrifts and
add banking products to the insurance mix will improve their operating
risk-return profile. The authors do not conclude that . . .
Online trading: The competitive landscape.
The market downturn since March 2000 has posed a serious threat to
brokerage firms, particularly those that offer online trading Findings
of this study suggest that broke rage firms should focus on . . .
Exchange Traded Funds: challenge to traditional mutual
funds.
Using baskets of stocks, Exchange Traded Funds offer
diversification and a cost-effective alternative to equity mutual funds.
They may be a creative answer to your investing questions.
. . .
Mutual funds: investment of choice for individual
investors?
Various products -- exchange traded funds, hedge funds, managed
accounts and portfolio investment programs -- have emerged as potential
competitors for the assets currently invested in mutual . . .
September 11 brings new anti-terrorism and anti-money laundering
responsibilities to financial institutions.
The need to track down the terrorists after September 11, and to
help prevent future attacks, led to a search for a means of uncovering
the money trails they used. The USA PATRIOT Act has produced . . .
Global pension reform: world solutions for rebuilding,
restructuring and reshaping the pillars of retirement.
Retirement issues facing Americans cans are also confronting
citizens in countries around the globe. These issues can be summarized
simply -- populations are aging, working populations are . . .
American companies should prepare for the U.K. entering the euro
system.(United Kingdom)
The rationale for U.K. entry into the euro zone's single
currency system is outlined. Effects on U.S. companies and financial
institutions are explored -- whether or not the U.K. joins. Among . . .
Are we headed to Dow 100,000? An interview with Charles W.
Kadlec, Managing Director, J. & W. Seligman & Co.
Inc.(Interview)
(This interview took place on July 30, 2002.)
J. & W. Seligman & Co. Incorporated is a New York based
investment manager and advisor. Founded in 1864, Seligman has a
distinguished history in the . . .
From the editor.(Editorial)
In some way this issue of the Review of Business is as much about
what it isn't as what it is.
When I began the task of editing this special issue on financial
services, I was excited about the . . .
Globalization of the B.O.T. system and its taxation problems.(a
discussion of the build, operate, transfer system for producing
Build, operate, transfer (BOT) system and its variations are
gaining global recognition as finance schemes to design, construct,
operate and manage revenue-producing large scale infrastructure . . .
Cooperation between FASB and IASB to achieve convergence of
accounting standards.(the Financial Accounting Standards Board, the
The International Accounting Standards Board has a mandate to
produce a single set of high quality, understandable, and enforceable
global accounting standards and to encourage convergence on . . .
Good news for sectarian educational institutions issuing
tax-exempt bonds.(a court rules that the issuance of tax-exempt bonds t
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that the issuance of
tax-exempt bonds to a sectarian university does not violate the First
Amendment as the bonds were part of a neutral program to . . .
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