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Articles from Paul Harwood, Member of the Risk Management Board

Risk v Uncertainty? Just semantics? Maybe not

Paul Harwood shares his thoughts.
 

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Has risk management failed?

Paul Harwood shares his thoughts on useful resources on this topic.
 

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Are you a digitally aware actuary?

‘Risk Management in a Digital World’ is one of the most interesting and forward-looking of our working parties. Paul Harwood shares his thoughts.
 

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Cynic or Idealist? Which sort of actuary are you?

‘Cynic and Idealist: two views of the insurance cycle’ is a 2003 paper recommended to me as worthy of another look. I caught up with the author, actuary Martin White, and asked him whether it still had relevance.
 

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Risk Classification – worth another look

Solvency II’s insistence that we consider ‘all risks, actual or potential, that are or may affect a firm’ can be a bit daunting.

For ORSA purposes, I tend to fall back on the fact that we always test lower sales, higher claims and greater expenses, which are the obvious outcomes from all manner of unthought-of risks.
 

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The benefits of perverse outcomes

I’ve always been fascinated with unexpected outcomes and structures that become unintentionally ironic. From five cats introduced to Marion Island to control mice (becoming a huge threat to the bird population) to Orwell’s Ministry of Truth, the counter-intuitive and simply perverse holds a slight fascination.
 

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