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A Delicate Balance Between Risk and Reward	Winning businesses will be those that are best able to balance coping strategies, which are defensive and focused on avoiding downside risks, with an increasing mix of exploitation strategies, which embrace risk and make the most of the opportunities it presents.	new
Attribution: A Robust Risk/Reward Measure	Article by Timothy P. Ryan
Environmental risk management	The transition of environmental risk management: Survey Finds That Few Companies Consider Environmental Risk When Undertaking Major Strategic Activities.
Future-Proofing the Company Against Risk	As companies build more relationships up and down an increasingly global value chain, their risk management strategies cannot be merely preventive, defensive, reactive or just compliant. The best strategies assess the peril and potential of every business decision.
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Good Risk, Bad Risk: Are You Taking Intelligent Risks to Drive Value?	Risk is a fundamental part of business. But that doesn’t mean all risks are the same. Companies that focus on the wrong risks are wasting their time and money — and ultimately, short-changing their shareholders. pdf
Integrated Risk Assessment	Current Views of Risk Management; article by H. Felix Kloman, pdf file 21 K
Introduction to Dynamic Financial Analysis	Our goal is to give an introduction into DFA concepts and methods by presenting a model framework comprising those components many DFA models have in common. Pdf-file 372 KB
Making sense of risk appetite, tolerance, and acceptance	The purpose of this article is to explain the alternative meanings involved and point out the common confusions. The alternative concepts fall into three groups: (1) natural thresholds, (2) artificial thresholds, and (3) propensities.
Managing the New Realities of Risk	The success and growth of organizations depend today, as they always have, on navigating the landscape of risks and opportunities. Most current approaches to managing risk and capturing opportunity focus on the most immediate and knowable environments and give only limited consideration to uncertainties in the external environment.	new
Nonparametric Risk Management	Nonparametric Risk Management and Implied Risk Aversion. Pdf-file
People, Process and Technology in Risk Management	This article describes how to bridge the gap between the ability of new technologies to deliver information and the actual use of that data by management to make improved business decisions.
Rethinking business risk	Anthony Mitchell and Marc Jones argue for a broader, more integrative appreciation of risk and risk management than currently prevails and examine what can be done today to avert or offset some of the disastrous consequences of what might otherwise occur tomorrow. 2007
Risk / Opportunity Study	To learn more about how corporate leaders view risks and opportunities in the context of business growth and financial performance, Towers Perrin partnered with the Economist Intelligence Unit on a research study that involved a cross-industry group of 1,452 senior executives of midsize and large companies in all regions of the world. 2008
Risk and Firm Size	Increases in the Systematic Risk of Large Firms. Pdf-file
Risk management in the context of performance management and strategy making	This article is about how to "embed" risk management into performance management, planning, strategy making, budgeting, other management exercises that involve objective setting.
SEC Risk Quantification Requirements	Implementing The SEC Risk Quantification Requirements To Improve Shareholder Value; article by Lang Gibson, doc file 93 K
Strategic Long-Term Financial Risks	The long-term goal of this RiskLab project is the development of a theoretically well-understood and empirically founded conceptual framework for the measurement of long-term financial risk of strategic investment portfolios. Pdf-file 624  KB
What We Know, Don't Know and Can't Know About Bank Risk: A View from the Trenches	This paper seeks to put forward a framework, from the perspective of practitioners and policymakers, for how the known, unknown, and unknowable vary by risk type within banking. Working paper 2006. Abstract, pdf-file available for download

The Fundamentals of Risk Measurement
by Christopher Marrison
The Fundamentals of Risk Measurement introduces the state-of-the-art tools and practices necessary for planning, executing, and maintaining risk management in today’s volatile financial environment.

Risk Management
by Michel Crouhy, Robert Mark, Dan Galai
Managing Risk provides a comprehensive description and analysis of modern risk management, including the regulatory aspects, organizational issues, potential problem areas, and tools to control and manage the many different kinds of risks: market risk, credit risk, and operational risk. It also discusses: structuring and managing the risk management function in a firm; practical measurement issues in the field; risk management in both financial and non-financial institutions.

Financial Risk Management: A Practitioner's Guide to Managing Market and Credit Risk (with CD-ROM)
by Steve L. Allen
This complete guide covers the strategies, principles, and measurement techniques necessary to measure and manage financial risk. With a focus on management perspective, this book explores real-world issues such as model validation, risk measurement, valuation methodologies, and much more. Self-contained Excel spreadsheets are included on the companion CD-ROM.

The Essentials of Risk Management
by Michel Crouhy, Dan Galai, Robert Mark
 The Essentials of Risk Management is the first book to make even the most sophisticated risk management approaches simultaneously accessible to both risk and non risk professionals.