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

Doherty, Neil

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0071358617 ISBN 13: 9780071358613

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2000

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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.

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0071358617
• ISBN 13: 9780071358613
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 646