catastrophic risk
1Risk Management Solutions — Infobox Company company name = Risk Management Solutions Inc company company slogan = Providing solutions to quantify and manage catastrophe risk. foundation = 1988 location = key people = Hemant H. Shah: President CEO Stephen I. Robertson: CFO… …
2Risk perception — is the subjective judgment that people make about the characteristics and severity of a risk. The phrase is most commonly used in reference to natural hazards and threats to the environment or health, such as nuclear power. Several theories have… …
3Risk — takers redirects here. For the Canadian television program, see Risk Takers. For other uses, see Risk (disambiguation). Risk is the potential that a chosen action or activity (including the choice of inaction) will lead to a loss (an undesirable… …
4Risk management — For non business risks, see risk, and the disambiguation page risk analysis Example of risk management: A NASA model showing areas at high risk from impact for the International Space Station. Risk management is the identification, assessment,… …
5Risk Matrix — A Risk Matrix is a tool used in the Risk Assessment process, it allows the severity of the risk of an event occurring to be determined.A risk is the total of each of the hazards that contribute to it. The risk of any particular hazard, H, can be… …
6Risk financing — In business economics, risk financing is concerned with providing funds to cover the financial effect of unexpected losses experienced by a firm. Traditional forms of finance include, funded retention by way of reserves (often called self… …
7Systemic risk — In finance, Systemic Risk is that risk which is common to an entire market and not to any individual entity or component thereof. It can be defined as financial system instability, potentially catastrophic, caused or exacerbated by idiosyncratic… …
8Weather risk management — is a type of risk management done by organizations to address potential financial losses caused by unusual weather.OverviewEnergy, agriculture, transportation, construction, municipalities, school districts, travel, food processors, retail sales… …
9Intergovernmental risk pool — A risk pool is a method used by insurance companies to reduce their exposure to sudden and severe losses caused by large scale catastrophic events.To use a simplified example: an insurance company with many policies in hurricane prone Florida… …
10Insurable risk — An insurable risk is a risk that meets the ideal criteria for efficient insurance. The concept of insurable risk underlies nearly all insurance decisions.For a risk to be insurable, several things need to be true:* The insurer must be able to… …
