Insurance

As bankers incorporate more and more complicated and precise calculations and models, a solely mathematical approach will fail to confirm the viability of their business. This book explains how to combine ALM concepts with the emotional intelligence of...

This book is a practical guide to the latest risk management tools and techniques applied in the market to assess and manage credit risks at bank, sovereign, corporate and structured finance level. It strongly advocates the importance of sound credit...

Since the mid-1990s risk management has undergone a dramatic expansion in its reach and significance, being transformed from an aspect of management control to become a benchmark of good governance for banks, hospitals, schools, charities, and many other...

Few topics are as pressing to policy makers, business leaders and the risk management community as the secure and compliant management of social media. Social Media Risk and Governance is a practical guide to the components and considerations which make...

Medicare made simple Medicare brings valuable benefits to more than 58 million people and growing, but most of us don't even know the basics of how Medicare can work best for us. That's where Medicare For Dummies, 4th Edition comes in, explaining how...

ALM Modeling and Balance Sheet Optimization leads the reader through the vast world of mathematical programming applied to balance sheet optimization. It considers a wide range of business and regulatory constraints and different flavors of financial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995292512Author Edward a RobertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Er Technical Inc.Publisher Er Technical Inc.Weight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 279mm...

Practical Enterprise Risk Management addresses the real need for organizations to take more managed risks in order to maximize business strategies and achieve long term goals. Based on ISO 31000 and applying current best practice, it provides templates...

The psychological dimension of managing risk is of crucial importance, and its study has led to the identification of specific do's and don'ts. Those with an understanding of the psychology underlying risk and the skills to recognize its manifestation in...

From a giant of health care policy, an engaging and enlightening account of why American health care is so expensive-and why it doesn't have to beUwe Reinhardt was a towering figure and moral conscience of health care policy in the United States and...

Viewed from the perspective of environmental management, this study describes the implications and applications of the precautionary principle - a theory of avoiding risk even when its likelihood seems remote. This principle has been employed in the...

Compiled by a well known and respected team of editors and contributors from interdisciplinary backgrounds, this book has its origins in the Euroscreen project, a research project funded by the European Commission to examine the legal and ethical issues...

This book is a one-stop-shop reference for risk management practitioners involved in the validation of risk models. It is a comprehensive manual about the tools, techniques and processes to be followed, focused on all the models that are relevant in the...

For undergraduate courses in Risk Management and Insurance. Principles and Practices: Managing Risk with Consumer Considerations Redja's Principles of Risk Management and Insurance provides an in-depth examination of major risk themes. Using rich and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523000494Author David HillsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers

A thought-provoking and invaluable book for anyone who cares about risk communication and management in the 21st century Anna Jung, Director General, European Food Information Council Professor Ragnar L fstedt has once again produced a most...

Environmental sustainability is perhaps the key societal challenge of our times. Achieving it will require a significant level of financing and investment, and here the role of the banking industry is fundamental. Banks can play a broader and...

The HAZOP Leader's Handbook is designed specifically to help HAZOP leaders plan and execute successful HAZOP studies, based on the author's many years of experience of participating in, observing and facilitating HAZOP studies, as well as observing,...

Life insurance-the promise of an insurer to pay a sum upon a person's death in exchange for a regular premium-is a bizarre enterprise. How can we monetize human life? Should we? What statistics do we use, what assumptions do we make, and what behavioral...

Insurance is an important - if still poorly understood - mechanism for dealing with a broad variety of risks associated with modern life. This book conducts an in-depth examination of one of the largest and longest-established private insurance...

All children grow up, but Peter Pan wanted to be old right away. So he ran off to a magically spooky place to become . . . a mummy! One night in the normal world, Peter overhears Wendy Darling telling her brothers a super scary story, and soon they're...

This title examines the concepts of systems reliability and the techniques available for determining both 'technical' and 'human' hazard and risk. Emphasis is placed on technical systems and human factors and the increasing importance of psychological...

The Operational Risk Handbook for Financial Companies is a groundbreaking new book. It seeks to apply for the first time a range of proven operational risk techniques from other industries and disciplines to the troubled territory of financial services...

This book provides an up-to-date guide to managing Country Risk. It tackles its various and interlinked dimensions including sovereign risk, socio-political risk, and macroeconomic risk for foreign investors, creditors, and domestic residents. It shows...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692755778Author Jeff RootFormat PaperbackImprint Selltermlife.comPublisher Selltermlife.comWeight(grams) 231g

The student workbook is design to help you retain key chapter content. Included within this resource are chapter objective questions; key-term definition queries; and multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and true-or-false problems.About the AuthorMichelle...

Develop an understanding of the matrix method of structural analysis with the contemporary, reader-friendly approach found in Kassimali's MATRIX ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURES, SI, 3rd Edition. Whether you are an advanced undergraduate or graduate student, this...

Trend reports have consistently highlighted the increasing popularity of web videos. More and more people access videos on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok, and participate in livestream events on Facebook and Twitch. When the world suddenly changed in...

Master the skills needed for medical coding with Green's bestselling 3-2-1 CODE IT! 2023 EDITION. Updated annually to reflect the most recent code set and coding guidelines, this easy-to-use guide is ideal for anyone just beginning medical coding...

Attract the right clients who will step-up your sales game!Sometimes people go into sales thinking it will be easy or it’s a surefire way to make extra money on the side. It might work for some pyramid sales operations or selling candles and creams;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781075569494Author Dan LopezFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm)...

Rethinking Risk and the Precautionary Principle challenges the claim that the precautionary principle is an appropriate guide to public policy decision-making in the face of uncertainty. The precautionary principle is frequently invoked as a...

This book deals with Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and, in particular, Quantitative Risk Management (QRM) in life insurance business. Constituting a "bridge" between traditional actuarial mathematics and insurance risk management processes, its...

Risk as we now know it is a wholly new phenomenon, the by-product of our ever more complex and powerful technologies. In business, policy making, and in everyday life, it demands a new way of looking at technological and environmental uncertainty. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781502333087Author Mohammed Sadullah KhanFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Health Insurance aims at filling a gap in actuarial literature, attempting to solve the frequent misunderstanding in regards to both the purpose and the contents of health insurance products (and 'protection products', more generally) on the one hand,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781098251154Author Brian HerbertFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Graphic NovelsPublisher Graphic NovelsWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 262mm * 174mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780357675106Author Lynn WermersFormat PaperbackImprint CENGAGE Learning Custom PublishingPublisher Cengage Learning, Inc

The world faces a climate crisis and an ascendant far right. Are these trends related? How does the far right think about the environment, and what openings does the coming crisis present for them? This incisive new book traces the long history of...

New technologies are changing how we protect our citizens and wage our wars. Among militaries, everything taken for granted about the ability to maneuver and fight is now undermined by vulnerability to "weapons of mass disruption": cutting-edge computer...