Integrated Risk Management: Techniques and Strategies for Managing Corporate Risk - Softcover

Doherty, Neil

9780071589987: Integrated Risk Management: Techniques and Strategies for Managing Corporate Risk

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071589988 ISBN 13: 9780071589987

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2000

Over the years, risk management has developed separately in both the insurance and financial fields. Today, the two are finding value in each other's tools and techniques. "Integrated Risk Management" combines the best of the two notions of risk management, insurance and financial, to develop solutions ideal for today's complex risk environment. Tools go beyond hedging strategies to also examine leveraging, post-loss financing, contingent financing, and diversification.

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From the Back Cover:

Strategies for ENTERPRISE RISK MANAGEMENT - Synthesizing Insurance and Capital Market Risk.

Risk management is an integral part of today's business arena. As we enter the 21st century, unprecedented global competition and razor-thin margins make the effective management of financial risk essential to corporate value, success - and survival.

Integrated Risk Management combines today's best insurance and financial risk management strategies and products into innovative, effective solutions for managing a coporation's exposure to financial risks. Timely, comprehensive research and case studies show how today's corporation can use the technology of both finance and insurance to address the whole range of corporate risks - financial, insurable, operational, and business.

Turn to Integrated Risk Management for discussions and recommendations that include:

-Hedgin strategies to remove risk versus restructuring strategies to accommodate risk.
-In-depth examination of postloss investment decisions under different financing assumptions.
-Detailed instructions on how and why to bundle contingent financing and leverage tools: insurance, options, convertible debt, and more.

By combining the best of the two approaches to risk management - insurance and financial - Integrated Risk Management develops pratical solutions for today's evolving and increasingly complex risk environment. Its integrated approach addresses multiple sources of risk in a coordinated strategy, and explains how to use today's most efficient techniques to successfully manage risk in the corporate environment.

About the Author:

Neil Doherty, Ph.D., (Philadelphia, PA) is the Ronald A. Rosenfeld Professor of Insurance and Risk Management at the Wharton School of Business. A consultant to major global corporations, Dr. Doherty also wrote Corporate Risk Management.

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