Knowledge | Organisations | Publications | Portals

Knowledge

www.riskglossary.com
An easy-to-understand but very useful website for those wishing to understand risks in finance and investment. A classical example is its explanation of why the sum of two Normal random variables is not necessarily Normal, which many other resources misinterpret.

www.gloriamundi.org - All about Value at Risk
Value at risk (VaR) is one of the classical risk management tools and this website is probably the biggest online library about VaR. The search engine inside the website is powerful so you can easily find the materials you're interested in, for example, on insurance and pensions.

www.defaultrisk.com
"The new frontier of risk management" - this is the comment on credit risk control. This website is the web's biggest credit risk modelling resource: currently it has more than 600 papers on credit risk free to download.

Fractal Finance
Traders are talking about "fractals" and the finance academy about "chaos theory". This website touches briefly on this advanced topic about non-linear and dynamic feature of investment risks.

Fractal Geometry
We recommend this site for those keen to know the mathematics behind fractals, written by Benoit Mandelbrot, the founding father of fractal geometry. (For those who only want a brief introduction to fractals in investment, go directly to section 5K which is about stock market fractals.)

Organisations

Association of Insurance and Risk Managers
The UK organisation for all professionals practising or responsible for insurance and risk management.

CARISMA. Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Optimisation Modelling Applications
An international research centre within Brunel University.

Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters
What loss adjusters do. Site includes facilty to search for a loss adjuster.

Chartered Insurance Institute
Professional and educational organisation for the insurance and financial services industries. Site includes information on qualifications, training courses and careers. Library section includes pages of links and online library database.

Institute of Risk Management
Aims to promote excellence in the practice of risk management. Site includes information on education, qualifications, conferences and seminars

Operational Risk Research Forum
Dedicated to advancing the understanding of operational risk

Professional Risk Managers' International Association (PRMIA)
Provides professional networks, certification, handbooks, online and classroom training, research and other resources for the risk profession.

RiskMetrics Group
provides financial analytics and wealth management solutions to hundreds of financial institutions, corporations and central banks worldwide. You can register free as a guest to the website and get access to its working papers on investment management, and, of course, the widely quoted technical documents on RiskMetrics® and CreditMetrics®.

University of Nottingham Centre for Risk and Insurance Studies
Encourages interdisciplinary insurance related research within the University, and acts as a clearing house for such work at a national level.

Publications

Journal of Risk and Insurance
Publishes research in insurance economics and risk management.

Measuring investment risk in defined benefit pension funds
by Shane F Whelan [pdf]

Practial risk management for equity portfolio managers by G C Heywood, J R Marsland and G M Morrison, British Actuarial Journal (2003) 9, 1061-1123

Risk Publications
Aims to provide accurate analysis and technical commentary on the latest developments in finance and financial technology in a digestible, unbiased format.

Other Portals

None listed at present

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