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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part One: Background Analysis.
Chapter 1: The Convergence of Insurance Risk Management and Financial Risk Management.
Chapter 2: Risk and Utility: Economic Concepts and Decision Rules.
Chapter 3: Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection.
Chapter 4: Portfolio theory and Risk Management.
Chapter 5: Capital Market Theory.
Chapter 6: Deriavatives and Options.

Part Two: Why Is Risk Costly to Firms?
Chapter 8: Risk Management Strategy: Duality and Globality.
Chapter 9: Post-loss Investment Decisions and the Measurement of Loss.
Chapter 10: Post-Loss financing: Fundability and Dysfunctional Investment.
Chapter 11: Post-Loss Financing: Liquidity and Debt Renegotiation.
Chapter 12: Contingent Financing.
Chapter 13: Contingent Leverage Strategies and Hybrid Debt.
Chapter 14: Hedging and Insurance.
Chapter 15: Organizational Form and Risk Management: Limited Liability.
Chapter 16: A Case Study: The Securitization of Catastrophe Risk.

Conclusion.
References.
Appendix.
Index.