RFactor
provides expert assistance to major organizations in
setting up an effective program of enterprise risk management.
We assist in the deployment of software which assists in
identifying risks of all types, measuring and prioritizing
them, assigning responsibilities for management of each
risk, and tracking the results. Such software is capable of being integrated
with existing enterprise-level systems. We also provide
specialized consulting in each major risk source area. |
Enterprise
Risk Technologies: The Difference
between Risk and Return |
RIMS Canada
Victoria,
British Columbia
October 21, 2003 |
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Parametric Insurance: How it Compares with CAT Bond Alternatives
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Catastrophe Bonds & Insurance Linked Securities Summit: Alternative Risk Transfer Solutions; December
12-13, 2006
The Digital Sandbox
New York City |
Other than the largest insurable risks, most potential “corporate” issuers of cat bonds find that the “minimum denominations” are too high to be economic. A new product, parametric insurance, solves this problem. Insurers offering parametric insurance can benefit from “reinsuring” or “hedging” their portfolio exposures in the CAT bond market.
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Building
a Robust Risk Management Culture
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the presentation by Rein Lemberg' address to Oil
and Gas industry (Kuala Lumpur) |
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Sarbanes-Oxley
Sections 302, 404 and 906 of Sarbanes-Oxley require companies to design and maintain procedures and controls to identify in a timely manner all material information for action and disclosure, and provide fairly presented financial information and disclosure to the public in periodic and current reports.
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more.
A Broader Vision of
Risk
"The goal of the Enterprise
Risk Management approach is to promote economic growth,
better utilization of capital resources and competitive
advantage." Learn
more.
Replication Center for Critical Information
Technology Infrastructure.
Rfactor assists its clients in meeting contemporary information technology security standards and operational protocols. Additionally, we can assist in deploying appropriate levels of "fail-over" and redundancy for critical systems. Take
a virtual tour of where we host our own information management facilities.
COSO
The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission has released its exposure draft. Click HERE to download.
Basel II: The Driving Factor for Financial Institutions
The New Capital Accord (Basel II) provides a risk management framework is meant to enhance the stability of financial institutions and global financial markets. However, in exchange for the reduced capital reserves offered by Basel II, institutions must formalize their risk management practices to take into account the entire scope of transaction-level business activities.
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How
Risk Affects Value of the Firm
The value of the firm is:
the sum of anticipated future earnings
divided by the investors’ required rate of return (cost of capital),
which depends on the degree of risk associated with the future earnings stream.
Investors’ required rate of return is a squared function of Risk (expressed as financial volatility.
We call this the "R" Factor
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