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A risky business : an actuary's guide to quantifying and managing risk in society
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ISBN: 3031116739 3031116720 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan,

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Intangible, invisible and worth trillions, risk is everywhere. Its quantification and management are key to the success and failure of individuals, businesses and governments. Whether you're an interested observer or pursuing a career in risk, this book delves into the complex and multi-faceted work that actuaries undertake to quantify, manage and commodify risk--supporting our society and servicing a range of multi-billion-dollar industries. Starting at the most basic level, this book introduces key concepts in actuarial science, insurance and pensions. Through case studies, explanations and mathematical examples, it fosters an understanding of current industry practice. This book celebrates the long history of actuarial science and poses the problems facing actuaries in the future, exploring complex global risks including climate change, aging populations, healthcare models and pandemic epidemiology from an actuarial perspective. It gives practical advice for new and potential actuaries on how to identify an area of work to go into, how best to navigate (and pass!) actuarial exams and how to develop your skills post-qualification. A Risky Business illuminates how actuaries are central to society as we know it, revealing what they do and how they do it. It is the essential primer on actuarial science. Catrin Townsend is a qualified actuary (a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries) and data enthusiast. In this book, she draws on her experience of pricing and reserving roles in general insurance, in both Lloyd's syndicates and global insurers. Since earning a first-class degree in Mathematics, Operational Research, Statistics & Economics from the University of Warwick, Catrin has worked with a range of insurance products and is currently leads a pricing team at a global insurer. She also leads and runs training courses on the theory and application of statistical modelling, and is a career ambassador for the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries. Catrin lives in Surrey with her husband (who is also an actuary) and two children.

Business continuity planning : a step-by-step guide with planning forms
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ISBN: 1931332908 1931332800 9781931332804 9781931332217 9781931332903 Year: 2005 Publisher: Brookfield, Connecticut : Rothstein Associates Inc., Publisher,

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Easy workbook format with step-by-step instructions, sample plans, templates, forms, and checklists shows managers new to business continuity management how to develop a basic plan and keep it updated. For single/few location companies with up to 250.


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Derivatives and Internal Models : Modern Risk Management
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ISBN: 3030228991 3030228983 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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Now in its fifth edition, Derivatives and Internal Models provides a comprehensive and thorough introduction to derivative pricing, risk management and portfolio optimization, covering all relevant topics with enough hands-on, depth of detail to enable readers to develop their own pricing and risk tools. The book provides insight into modern market risk quantification methods such as variance-covariance, historical simulation, Monte Carlo, hedge ratios, etc., including time series analysis and statistical concepts such as GARCH Models or Chi-Square-distributions. It shows how optimal trading decisions can be deduced once risk has been quantified by introducing risk-adjusted performance measures and a complete presentation of modern quantitative portfolio optimization. Furthermore, all the important modern derivatives and their pricing methods are presented; from basic discounted cash flow methods to Black-Scholes, binomial trees, differential equations, finite difference schemes, Monte Carlo methods, Martingales and Numeraires, terms structure models, etc. The fifth edition of this classic finance book has been comprehensively reviewed. New chapters/content cover multicurve bootstrapping, the valuation and hedging of credit default risk that is inherently incorporated in every derivative—both of which are direct and permanent consequences of the financial crises with a large impact on our understanding of modern derivative valuation. The book will be accompanied by downloadable Excel spread sheets, which demonstrate how the theoretical concepts explained in the book can be turned into valuable algorithms and applications and will serve as an excellent starting point for the reader’s own bespoke solutions for valuation and risk management systems.

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Capital market. --- Risk management. --- Accounting. --- Economics. --- Corporations-Finance. --- Investment banking. --- Securities. --- Capital Markets. --- Risk Management. --- Accounting/Auditing. --- Economics, general. --- Corporate Finance. --- Investments and Securities. --- Blue sky laws --- Capitalization (Finance) --- Investment securities --- Portfolio --- Scrip --- Securities --- Securities law --- Underwriting --- Investments --- Investment banking --- Banks and banking, Investment --- Investment banks --- Financial institutions --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- Accountancy --- Business enterprises --- Commerce --- Commercial accounting --- Finance --- Financial accounting --- Business --- Bookkeeping --- Insurance --- Management --- Capital markets --- Market, Capital --- Loans --- Money market --- Crowding out (Economics) --- Efficient market theory --- Law and legislation --- Accounting --- Bookkeeping . --- Management science. --- Corporations—Finance. --- Quantitative business analysis --- Problem solving --- Operations research --- Statistical decision --- Double entry bookkeeping --- Business education --- Gestió del risc --- Risc (Economia) --- Actius financers derivats --- Risc --- Economia --- Avaluació del risc --- Percepció del risc --- Risc (Assegurances) --- Risc de crèdit --- Beneficis --- Probabilitats --- Assegurances --- Actius derivats (Finances) --- Derivats financers --- Instruments derivats (Finances) --- Instruments financers derivats --- Nous instruments financers --- Nous productes financers --- Productes financers derivats --- Finances --- Valors --- Futurs financers --- Opcions (Finances) --- Swaps


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Mindful Topics on Risk Analysis and Design of Experiments
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ISBN: 9783031066856 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer

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Mindful Topics on Risk Analysis and Design of Experiments : Selected contributions from ICRA8, Vienna 2019
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ISBN: 3031066847 3031066855 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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This book provides an overview of the role of statistics in Risk Analysis, by addressing theory, methodology and applications covering the broad scope of risk assessment in life sciences and public health, environmental science as well as in economics and finance. Experimental Design plays a key role in many of these areas, therefore there is special attention paid to joining Risk Analysis and Experimental Design topics. The contributions of this volume originate from the 8th International Conference on Risk Analysis (23-26 April, 2019, Vienna). The conference brought together researchers and practitioners working in the field of Risk Analysis. The most important contributions at the conference have been refereed and developed into chapters to show the latest developments in the field.

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Experimental design. --- Design of experiments --- Statistical design --- Mathematical optimization --- Research --- Science --- Statistical decision --- Statistics --- Analysis of means --- Analysis of variance --- Experiments --- Methodology --- Avaluació del risc --- Estadística matemàtica --- Disseny d'experiments --- Assaig (Estadística) --- Disseny experimental --- Dissenys estadístics --- Esquema experimental (Estadística) --- Experimentació (Estadística) --- Anàlisi de variància --- Estadística descriptiva --- Inferència estadística --- Matemàtica estadística --- Mètodes estadístics --- Estadística --- Anàlisi d'error (Matemàtica) --- Anàlisi de regressió --- Anàlisi de sèries temporals --- Anàlisi multivariable --- Anàlisi seqüencial --- Astronomia estadística --- Correlació (Estadística) --- Dependència (Estadística) --- Estadística no paramètrica --- Estadística robusta --- Física estadística --- Mètode dels moments (Estadística) --- Models lineals (Estadística) --- Models no lineals (Estadística) --- Teoria de l'estimació --- Teoria de la predicció --- Tests d'hipòtesi (Estadística) --- Biometria --- Mostreig (Estadística) --- Anàlisi del risc --- Valoració del risc --- Avaluació --- Risc (Economia) --- Avaluació del risc ambiental --- Avaluació del risc per la salut --- Comunicació de risc --- Gestió del risc --- Principi de precaució --- Statistics. --- Financial risk management. --- Statistical Theory and Methods. --- Design of Experiments. --- Risk Management. --- Risk management --- Statistical analysis --- Statistical data --- Statistical methods --- Statistical science --- Mathematics --- Econometrics


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Probabilistic risk analysis and Bayesian decision theory
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ISBN: 3031163338 303116332X Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Springer,

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Financial risk forecasting : the theory and practice of forecasting market risk, with implementation in R and Matlab
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ISBN: 9780470669433 0470669438 9781119977100 111997710X 9781119977117 1119977118 1119977126 9781119977124 1119205867 9786613405128 1283405121 9781119205869 Year: 2011 Publisher: Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. : Wiley,

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Financial Risk Forecasting is a complete introduction to practical quantitative risk management, with a focus on market risk. Derived from the authors teaching notes and years spent training practitioners in risk management techniques, it brings together the three key disciplines of finance, statistics and modeling (programming), to provide a thorough grounding in risk management techniques. Written by renowned risk expert Jon Danielsson, the book begins with an introduction to financial markets and market prices, volatility clusters, fat tails and nonlinear dependence. It then goes o

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Money market. Capital market --- Computer. Automation --- Mathematical statistics --- Financial risk management --- Simulation methods. --- Forecasting. --- Financial risk management -- Forecasting. --- Financial risk management -- Simulation methods. --- Financial futures --- Management --- Finance --- Business & Economics --- Investment & Speculation --- Management Styles & Communication --- Forecasting --- Simulation methods --- AA / International- internationaal --- 305.91 --- 305.6 --- 339.42 --- -658.149 --- 519.2 --- EBS 2012-2013 --- OO Finance: Capita Selecta. Finance: theorie en praktijk --- -658.155 --- Risk management --- Econometrie van de financiële activa. Portfolio allocation en management. CAPM. Bubbles. --- Risicotheorie, speltheorie. Risicokapitaal. Beslissingsmodellen. --- Financiële analyse. --- Internationaal financieel beheer --- Wiskundige statistiek --- E-books --- 658.155 --- 658.149 --- Futures, Financial --- Futures --- Hedging (Finance) --- Risicotheorie, speltheorie. Risicokapitaal. Beslissingsmodellen --- Econometrie van de financiële activa. Portfolio allocation en management. CAPM. Bubbles --- Financiële analyse --- Gestió financera --- Gestió del risc --- Previsió --- Mètodes de simulació --- R (Computer program language). --- Tècniques de simulació --- Investigació operativa --- Biònica --- Intel·ligència artificial --- Jocs de simulació --- Jocs d'estratègia (Matemàtica) --- Models matemàtics --- Optimització matemàtica --- Simulació per ordinador --- Predicció --- Futurologia --- Prospectiva --- Anàlisi --- Previsió econòmica --- Previsió social --- Previsió tecnològica --- Història --- Tecnologia i civilització --- Assegurances --- Risc (Economia) --- Avaluació del risc --- Risc de crèdit --- Finances de l'empresa --- Direcció d'empreses --- Finances --- Cessió de crèdits --- Finançament de l'empresa --- Gestió de tresoreria --- Oferta pública d'adquisició --- GNU-S (Computer program language) --- Domain-specific programming languages --- Risque financier


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COVID-19 : systemic risk and resilience
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ISBN: 3030715876 3030715868 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Springer,

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COVID-19 --- Pandemics. --- Disaster Planning. --- Risk Management. --- Socioeconomic Factors. --- epidemiology. --- Factors, Socioeconomic --- High-Income Population --- Land Tenure --- Standard of Living --- Social Inequalities --- Social Inequality --- Factor, Socioeconomic --- High Income Population --- High-Income Populations --- Inequalities, Social --- Inequality, Social --- Living Standard --- Living Standards --- Population, High-Income --- Populations, High-Income --- Socioeconomic Factor --- Tenure, Land --- Economics --- Hospital Incident Reportings --- Incident Reporting --- Incident Reportings, Hospital --- Management, Risks --- Reporting, Hospital Incident --- Reportings, Hospital Risk --- Voluntary Patient Safety Event Reporting --- Hospital Incident Reporting --- Incident Reporting, Hospital --- Hospital Risk Reporting --- Hospital Risk Reportings --- Incident Reportings --- Management, Risk --- Reporting, Hospital Risk --- Reporting, Incident --- Reportings, Hospital Incident --- Reportings, Incident --- Risk Reporting, Hospital --- Risk Reportings, Hospital --- Risks Management --- Truth Disclosure --- Disaster Relief Planning --- Disaster Relief Plannings --- Planning, Disaster --- Planning, Disaster Relief --- Plannings, Disaster Relief --- Relief Planning, Disaster --- Relief Plannings, Disaster --- Pandemic --- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020 --- -Hazard mitigation. --- Risk management. --- Emergency management. --- Consequence management (Emergency management) --- Disaster planning --- Disaster preparedness --- Disaster prevention --- Disaster relief --- Disasters --- Emergencies --- Emergency management --- Emergency planning --- Emergency preparedness --- Management --- Public safety --- First responders --- Insurance --- Disaster mitigation --- Disaster risk mitigation --- Disaster risk reduction --- Hazards mitigation --- Mitigation, Hazard --- Natural hazard mitigation --- Natural hazards mitigation --- Reduction of risks of disasters --- Risk mitigation, Disaster --- Risk reduction, Disaster --- Epidemics --- Planning --- Preparedness --- Prevention --- Risk mitigation --- Pandèmia de COVID-19, 2020 --- -Gestió del risc --- Gestió d'emergències --- Gestió de catàstrofes --- Gestió de situacions d'urgència --- Planificació d'urgències --- Catàstrofes --- Accidents --- Assistència en emergències --- Protecció civil --- Assegurances --- Risc (Economia) --- Avaluació del risc --- Risc de crèdit --- Epidèmia de COVID-19, 2020 --- -COVID-19 (Pandèmia), 2020 --- -Epidèmies


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Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Actuarial Sciences and Finance
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ISBN: 9783030996383 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer

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Matemàtica actuarial --- Assegurances --- Finances --- Models matemàtics --- Estadística matemàtica --- Estadística descriptiva --- Inferència estadística --- Matemàtica estadística --- Mètodes estadístics --- Estadística --- Anàlisi d'error (Matemàtica) --- Anàlisi de regressió --- Anàlisi de sèries temporals --- Anàlisi de variància --- Anàlisi multivariable --- Anàlisi seqüencial --- Astronomia estadística --- Correlació (Estadística) --- Dependència (Estadística) --- Estadística no paramètrica --- Estadística robusta --- Física estadística --- Mètode dels moments (Estadística) --- Models lineals (Estadística) --- Models no lineals (Estadística) --- Teoria de l'estimació --- Teoria de la predicció --- Tests d'hipòtesi (Estadística) --- Biometria --- Mostreig (Estadística) --- Models (Matemàtica) --- Models experimentals --- Models teòrics --- Mètodes de simulació --- Anàlisi de sistemes --- Mètode de Montecarlo --- Modelització multiescala --- Models economètrics --- Models multinivell (Estadística) --- Programació (Ordinadors) --- Simulació per ordinador --- Teoria de màquines --- Models biològics --- Economia financera --- Operacions financeres --- Economia --- Actius financers derivats --- Amortització --- Beneficis --- Bons --- Borsa de valors --- Capital --- Capitalistes --- Crèdit --- Deflació --- Dones en les finances --- Enginyeria financera --- Entitats financeres --- Especulació --- Finances eclesiàstiques --- Finances internacionals --- Finances privades --- Finances públiques --- Gestió financera --- Gestió pressupostària --- Mercat financer --- Qüestió monetària --- Assegurances aèries --- Assegurances col·lectives --- Assegurances contra els riscs de guerra --- Assegurances d'accidents --- Assegurances d'automòbils --- Assegurances d'incendis --- Assegurances d'invalidesa --- Assegurances de crèdit --- Assegurances de l'empresa --- Assegurances de malaltia --- Assegurances de mercaderies --- Assegurances de responsabilitat civil --- Assegurances de viatgers --- Assegurances de vida --- Assegurances marítimes --- Companyies d'assegurances --- Gestió del risc --- Primes (Assegurances) --- Reassegurances --- Agents d'assegurances --- Risc (Assegurances) --- Càlcul actuarial --- Ciència actuarial --- Matemàtica financera --- Finance --- Insurance --- Statistical methods. --- Mathematical models.

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