Risk, Re-/Insurance and Future Thinking
From the category archives:
[Lo-grade tech stuff follows. Pull ripcord now if it's not your thing].
I’ve had a thorny problem to deal with today, involving a case in the Philippines, where I had two strands of information: the first was what a party had said (over time) had happened; the second was what had actually happened, as ex [...]
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I don’t know how many of you are fans of Google Earth (I love it, especially as it now does star maps, too), but it now seems to be creeping into mainstream corporate use. Allianz are now using it as a risk management tool to estimate exposures in, for example, the case of a [...]
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Interesting article from the Long Now foundation (disclosure: I’m a charter member) about the the increase in range of things that can be bet on as risk measurement becomes more precise. They refer back to the Allianz-led cat bond on floods hitting London as a prime (and new) example of such risks and then [...]
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How often one hears of things a little too late. I should like to have gone to Complex07, the large Aus/East Asian conference on complex systems.
This was the bit that caught my eye in the Sydney Morning Herald review:
>Alexander Wearing from the school of behavioural science at the University of Melbourne has been exploring [...]
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Trawling some files the other day, I realized that I had not posted a copy of my talk on “Bad Software” since it was expunged, with all other records, from iNews. So here it is in original Keynote format, and in pdf format.
Aproveches.
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Via Merlin’s ever-effervescent 43 Folders, comes this great idea from Adam Gurno for keeping track of who the h€ll people are in meetings.
Yes, kids, map that table. You know if there are more than two of you – especially if there are more than two people from one outfit – that you are probably [...]
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Edward Kelley, assistant general Counsel for Transatlantic Reinsurance Co. (TRC), has an interesting article on law.com about how TRC has changed its email technology and practices so as to make the whole thing more streamlined, cost-effective and productive.
The problem they faced in particular was dealing with endless enquiries from regulators:
> Each time a regulator returned [...]
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Here’s a small and possibly useful tip.
As we all know by know, Word/Excel etc save a lot of metadata about you when you draft a document, and sometimes you don’t want to pass that m/d on. The safest and easiest thing is to save the document (via the excellent PDF Factory) as a pdf [...]
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There’s a wonderful series of maps at WorldMapper – “The world as you’ve never seen it before” – showing graphically distorted maps of the world according to different socio-economic indicators.
It’s especially good as they do pairs of maps. The first one here shows global activity in exports of financial and insurance services:
>Of all [...]
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*[CAVEAT: More law than re-/insurance here, but still a good read]*
Jurist is an interesting, one-of-a-kind legal website.
>What is JURIST?
>JURIST (http://jurist.law.pitt.edu) is a Web-based legal news and real-time legal research service powered by a mostly-volunteer team of over 30 part-time law student reporters, editors and Web developers led by law professor Bernard Hibbitts at the University [...]
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