Insurance category: 1053 books
by Paul Slovic
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
The concept of risk is an outgrowth of our society's great concern about coping with the dangers of modern life. The Perception of Risk brings together the work of Paul Slovic, one of the world's leading analysts of risk, risk perception and risk management, to examine the gap between expert views...
Handbook of Financial Risk Management
Simulations and Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
An authoritative handbook on risk management techniques and simulations as applied to financial engineering topics, theories, and statistical methodologies
The Handbook of Financial Risk Management: Simulations and Case Studies illustrates the practical implementation of simulation techniques...
by Michael Lustig
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Premium Discounts for Hurricane Loss Mitigation provides an in-depth examination of Hurricane Loss Mitigation in Florida with an emphasis on the regulations and policies that govern it and the types of Premium Discounts available and their benefits. This textbook provides a wealth of information regarding...
by Michael Lustig
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Annuity Training provides an in-depth examination of annuities with an emphasis on the classification and contract provisions and the types of annuity plans available and their benefits. This textbook provides a wealth of information regarding annuities, including history, types and classification...
by Bruce Hillman J.D.
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Discusses the coverages, exclusions, and conditions of most recent ISO Building and Personal Property Coverage form, CP 0010 0607 Includes discussion of ISO business income coverage form and ISO provisions and endorsements on mold, electronic data, war, and terrorism Appendix with most current ISO...
by Paola Leone, Gianfranco A. Vento
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
This book analyses and confronts the functioning of guarantee systems for SMEs in countries where these schemes had an important development. The book also highlights how the current financial crisis is modifying the guarantees schemes, through policy maker interventions.
A Thousand Days in Berlin
Tales of Property Pioneering
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
This book captures the energy and sense of wonder in early 1990s Berlin as seen by a young property professional who lived and worked in the reunified city. A Thousand Days recalls how the city's vibrant history and culture clashed with its traumatic recent past, and how Berliners dealt with the scars...
Smart Growth
Building an Enduring Business by Managing the Risks of Growth
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Wall Street believes that all public companies should grow smoothly and continuously, as evidenced by ever-increasing quarterly earnings, and that all companies either "grow or die." Introducing a research-based growth model called "Smart Growth," Edward D. Hess challenges this...
The Mathematics of Options
Quantifying Derivative Price, Payoff, Probability, and Risk
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
This book is written for the experienced portfolio manager and professional options traders. It is a practical guide offering how to apply options math in a trading world that demands mathematical measurement.
Every options trader deals with an array of calculations: beginners learn to identify...
Options Installment Strategies
Long-Term Spreads for Profiting from Time Decay
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
An “installment strategy” in its most basic form, combines two options, one long-term position and one short-term. This strategy is designed as a conservative, no-cost method to either eliminate risk for future trading when stock is owned; or to fix the price for a future purchase of the underlying...
Dynamic Risk Assessment
The Practical Guide to Making Risk-Based Decisions with the 3-Level Risk Management Model
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Dynamic Risk Assessment is the key tool to support a holistic risk management framework. This book aims to help employers, managers and staff alike to understand how they can effectively integrate dynamic risk assessment into business management processes and systems to improve safety.
With...
Safety and Security Review for the Process Industries
Application of HAZOP, PHA, What-IF and SVA Reviews
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Safety and Security Review for the Process Industries: Application of HAZOP, PHA, What-IF and SVA Reviews, Third Edition, describes the responsibilities, methods, and documentation required for the performance of qualitative hazard analysis for industrial and commercial processes, specifically Preliminary...
by Peter Edwards, Paul Bowen
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
This book enhances the reader's understanding of the nature and presence of risk by raising the organisation's awareness of the risks it faces, and formalising the systems needed to deal with and learn from those risks.
While based on the experience of the construction industry, the book also...
An Option Greeks Primer
Building Intuition with Delta Hedging and Monte Carlo Simulation using Excel
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
This book provides a hands-on, practical guide to understanding derivatives pricing. Aimed at the less quantitative practitioner, it provides a balanced account of options, Greeks and hedging techniques avoiding the complicated mathematics inherent to many texts, and with a focus on modelling, market practice and intuition.