Exam Review #1 Flashcards

1
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Risk management standard

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Are voluntary

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RMM

Risk maturity model

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Objective consistent tool to conduct self assessment, not a standard or process or framework 
ERM based 
Risk appetite management 
Root cause 
Performance management
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3
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Risk governance

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Integrating management principals governing the organization with the RM process

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4
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ISO 31000

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Applies regarding whether risk has positive or negative consequences

Can be applied to risks that have positive outcome

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5
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Risk assessment

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Includes risk identification
Risk analysis
Risk evaluation

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Risk criteria

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Information used to evaluate the significance of an orgs risks
Can we meet strategic goals
Defined as reference standards

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7
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Supply chain risk

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Associate with iSO 31000

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8
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COSO 5Components

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Gorvernance
Strategy 
Performance 
Review and revision 
Information,communication, reporting
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9
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COSO governance and culture

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To do with board of directors

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10
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COSO performance

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Component that refers to practices that permit organizations in all departments assess and respond to risk

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11
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Abandonment

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When you eliminate the loss exposure

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12
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Cash matching

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An insurer can eliminate interest rate risk. To fund liabilities in a timely manner. To achieve this we make investments hold them till maturity to match the amounts the insurer will have to pay out

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13
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Interest rate risk?

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Systematic affects all orgs
The risk a bond future value will decline because of changes in interest rates
Swaps can be used to hedge
Insurers are vulnerable due to investments so use cash matching

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14
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Reinvestment risk

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Not being able to earn the same rate of return from an investment

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15
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Risk based capital system

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Min. Capital for Insurer to support operations

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16
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Basel 1

Capital to assets 2003

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Considers relative risk of assets

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17
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Advantage of economic capital analysis

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Focus attention on risks attached to activities
Ensure solvency at a given level 99% of the time
Economical capital is the amount of money you should have put away for unexpected losses ( not told to you by regulator) almost seen as overarching more than
Frequency is low amount of loss is high
Rare but deadly

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18
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Economic Capital

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Amount you need to stay solvent at a given risk tolerance level

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19
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Market Value Margin

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Additional payment in case reserves are inadequate, additional money for investors to be attractive

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20
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Market Value Surplus

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Fair value accounting, fair value of assets minus fair value of liabilities

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21
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Value at Risk VAR

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All risks together to estimate the probability liabilities will exceed the assets by various amounts over a 1 year period. VAr is used in banks know how much money they are losing

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22
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ERM 4 components

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Align and integrate
Lead establish accountability
Allocate resources
Communicate and report

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23
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ERM 5 steps -Process

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Scan environment 
Identify risks
Analyze risks 
Treat risks
Monitor and assure
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24
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Using existing processes in RM

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Reduces the resistance to change from introducing new procedures

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25
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Risk Appetite

Internal Environment

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Is a factor of internal environment

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26
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Selecting RM Techniques

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Is based on a forecast of the frequency and severity of expected losses

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27
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KRI

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Metrics used to measure uncertainty of meeting strategic objectives
Used to evaluate performance
Remember uncertainty

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KPI

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$ or non $ that defines how successful we will be at meeting long term goals
How is the thing performing good or bad?

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29
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Internal environment

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Equipment
Systems
People
Experience

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30
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Risk Classification

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Pure and speculative
Objective or subjective
Diversifiable or non

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31
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Risk Quadrants

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Hazard
Operational
Financial
Strategic

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32
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Benefits of ERM

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Identify key exposures
Transparency
Risk transfer negative events
Protect tangible or intangible assets

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33
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Pillars of ERM

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Interdependency matters
Correlation increases risk
Portfolio theory spread of risk

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34
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Risk management process

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Identify
Analyze
Decide on response
Monitoring and control

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35
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RMM

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Not a standard or process but focuses on 
Erm based approach 
Risk appetite management
Root cause discipline
Performances management
Resilience
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36
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Solvency II Pillars

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Risk based capital is adequate
Higher governance
Greater transparency

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37
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Exposure

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Maximum potential damage
A condition that presents possibility for loss or gain, whether or not actually loss occurs
Think about underwriting they have to think of worst case senario

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38
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Basic risk measures

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Exposure 
Volitiity 
Likelihood 
Consequences 
Time horizon 
Correlation 

Focus is on quantifying risks how much will it affect us

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39
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Regression analysis

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Trend analysis used to estimate relationships between variables

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40
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EaR

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Amount they will gain, amount that might change due to change in interest rates helps with planning used more commonly in Non-banking sectors

41
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COSO vs. iSO

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COSO was meant for financial controls

Typically looks at adverse price negative outcomes

42
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BASEL II 3Pillars

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Financial adequacy
Risk management
Transparency

43
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Tolerable uncertainty

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Level managers are comfortable with risks

44
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PDCA deals with ERM framework and process

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Plan Do check Act

45
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Traditional Risk Management Process

Focus on Hazard risk only

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Identify 
Analyze 
Examine feasibility 
Select 
Implement 
Monitor
46
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Risk Control

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Avoid preventive reduction
Usually done by ops manager or staff
Conscious act or not to act that reduces the frequency severity and makes losses more predictable

47
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Risk Control

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Avoidance 
Prevention 
Reduction 
Separation 
Duplication
Diversification
48
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Risk based auditing

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Prioritize the use of internal resources in the areas the pose the greatest risk

49
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Risk assurance

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The level of confidence in the effectiveness of the org’s risk management culture practices

50
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CRSA

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A process managers perform an annual self audit to evaluate the effectiveness of business processes the Mangers do it can be expensive

51
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Systematic risk

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Risk that is common to all securities in the same class

52
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Sarbanes-oxley act

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2002 require CEO and CFO to verify quarterly and annual financials

53
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COSO Internal Controls

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Monitoring - when you check if controls are functioning measures compliance (fictious claims question)

54
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Report certification

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Think external auditors

55
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Employees have been informed of the commitment to risk management

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Pick internal audit to administer questionnaire

56
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Structured Data

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Organized into databases with defined fields

57
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Unstructured Data

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Not organized in database can include images or non traditional media

58
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Data Science

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Is useful for unstructured Data

59
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Ways Insurer and risk manger can use data science to improve results

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Discover new relationships

60
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Descriptive Approach

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Is applied when you have a specific problem

61
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Holdout Data

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Purpose is to help ensure the model is not overfitted to training data

62
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Precision of Predictive Model

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False-negatives etc.
tP divide (TP + FP)
Line up predicted yes to actual yes = TP
Number above is FP

40/ (40+5)

63
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Find accuracy of predictive model

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Actual No divide by Total

Look for larger numbers

64
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Training a predictive model reason for cross validation

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Limited amount of training data unwise not to use some of it for training because of need for holdout data

65
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Root node

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Topmost node

The most informative attribute

66
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Cluster analysis

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Identify previously unknown groupings

67
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Leaf node

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A branch of a classification tree that leads to a target variable
The last end

68
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Lift

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Percentage of positives divided by percentage expected by chance

69
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Expected Value

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Weighted Average of all possible outcomes

70
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Empirical probability

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Based on actual experience through historical data or facts

71
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Theoretical probability

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Based on theory rather than actual experiences

Think dice

72
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Probability analysis

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Technique for forecasting events

73
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Event tree

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Only accidental

74
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Qualitative Assessment

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Measures risk by significance

High medium or low

75
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ISO 300

Sources and consequences of a risk

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Risk Analysis

76
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Quantitative analysis

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Uses historical data to reach a numeric indication of the level of risk

77
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Flip a coin

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Mutually exclusive
Only one outcome
Empirical frequency pick highest number

78
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Coefficient of variation

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Compare different shapes
Means or standard deviations

=Standard deviations ➗ by mean or multiply backwards

79
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Expected value

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Weighted average

80
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Trend analysis

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Looks at patterns in past data

81
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Regression analysis

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Varies predictably with another variable

82
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Event tree

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Only success or failure
Analyze consequences of accidents rather than decisions
Differ in their purpose

83
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Data credibility

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Available data ya can accurately indicate future losses

84
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Timing dimension

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Analyze investments income and interest

Money held in reserves to pay for a loss can earn interest until the payment is made

85
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HAZOP

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Complex scientific systems 
Review of a process or system 
Team approach
Experts and stakeholders 
Recommend solutions
86
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Scenario analysis

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Identifies various risks and projects the potential consequences of those risks

87
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Delphi

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Involves select group of experts question response cycle until consensus is achieved

88
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Risk register

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Report to depict all risk scenarios likelihood of loss or scenario and consequences
Reports in individual risks
Developed at risk owner level links activities to to a list of identified risks consolidated at enterprise level

89
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Residual risk

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The difference between optimum risk represents the risk treatment opportunity to further reduce risk
Measures the effectiveness of risk treatment

90
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Optimum risk

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Level of risk that is within the orgs appetite

91
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Flowchart

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Depicts organizations activities and processes

92
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Income statement

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If trying to find net income exposures

93
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Balance sheet

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Lists assets property values

94
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SWOT

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Strength weakness opportunities threats associated with a purchase
If looking at new product analysis of internal and external factors

95
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Delphi

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Group of experts respond to survey or inquiry

96
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Sensitivity analysis

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The effect of a change in one or more variables on the result of a financial analysis

97
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Risk financing

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Conscious act to act or not act that generates funds to pay for losses or offset the variable in cash flows

98
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Proust

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Subjective

Loss frequency and severity