Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Insurance - Risk Assessment & Management

This book is the first attempt to re-define objective risk. It addresses the cost of running out of capital as a generalized cost syndrome and explains how it is possible to describe this cost in such a way as to give it practical, real-life significance for personal finances, company finances and the economy as a whole. The discussion begins by presenting an intuitive and useful definition of risk: the probability of prospective capital shortfall. From this point it establishes a risk theory and expands the work of major thinkers such as Frank Knight and John Maynard Keynes, and adds...

THE HEALTH OF YOUR WEALTH shows you how to assemble your financial team. Discover different types of advisors, the roles they play, and who you need on your side. This how-to guide focuses on team-building to accomplish your financial goals. It will change the way you think about money, wealth, and life balance.

• Your life is the sum total of your everyday choices.
• Make every financial choice the right choice.
• There are advisors and there are trustworthy advisors.
• Learn how to build your trustworthy financial team now.

Howard provides a...

This is a reprint of ISBN 978-0-901357-46-5

Disasters: learning the lessons for a safer world is both a tribute to the victims of past safety failures and a warning against complacency and cutting corners today. It also recognises the achievements of health and safety professionals and others in learning the lessons of past mistakes. As Trevor Kletz has written, "Someone has paid the 'tuition fess'. There is no need for you to pay them again."

Illustrated throughout in colour, the book looks at over 90 accidents, incidents and safety failures. Some,...

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Cause Analysis Manual: Incident Investigation Method & Techniques, by Fred Forck - Rothstein Associates Inc.

From 30+ years of experience as a performance improvement consultant, self-assessment team leader, and trainer, Fred Forck, CPT, understands what you need to get the job done. He leads you through a clear step-by-step process of root cause evaluation, quality improvement, and corrective action. Using these straightforward tools, you can avoid errors, increase reliability, enhance performance, and improve bottom-line results -- while creating a resilient culture that...

THE HEALTH OF YOUR WEALTH shows you how to assemble your financial team. Discover different types of advisors, the roles they play, and who you need on your side. This how-to guide focuses on team-building to accomplish your financial goals. It will change the way you think about money, wealth, and life balance.

• Your life is the sum total of your everyday choices.
• Make every financial choice the right choice.
• There are advisors and there are trustworthy advisors.
• Learn how to build your trustworthy financial team now.

Howard provides a...

Systemic Risk provides readers with a wide-ranging practical guide to systemic risk in the financial system. It challenges the notion that systemic risk is exclusively about interconnectivities within the financial system, showing that past systemic risk crises have often involved a broader range of vulnerabilities.

It describes how regulators and governments are seeking to manage systemic risk, and how their concerns are driving change in regulatory and business environments across the financial sector. It sets out how firms and practitioners can effectively respond to these...