About the Author
Joseph Calandro
Joseph Calandro is Managing Director of PricewaterhouseCooper’s insurance practice. Joe is an economist with more than 20 years of experience. He advises insurance companies on a wide array of business and risk issues and also advises clients in other industries on risk management, M&A and strategy. He can be reached at joseph.calandro@us.pwc.com.
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By Joseph Calandro |
April 26, 2012
Standard & Poor’s initiated a great deal of activity surrounding enterprise risk management (ERM) when it announced that it was going to specifically rate insurers’ ERM functions and that those ratings would influence insurers’ credit and financial-strength ratings. At the time, S&P offered specific ERM criteria from a variety of...
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By Joseph Calandro |
April 20, 2012
Strategic risk management leverages common ERM capabilities around accumulations and modeling analyses, but it extends those analyses by seeking to identify and track the "weak signals" of a developing ambiguous threat that could trigger a concentrated loss.
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By Paul Delbridge, Joseph Calandro |
February 16, 2012
Another year of costly natural catastrophes—including the worst U.S. tornado season in 50 years, massive insured losses arising from the floods in Thailand, the Japan earthquake and consequent tsunami, and further
seismic activity in New Zealand—is causing many insurance-industry stakeholders to wonder just how many more unexpected levels of loss...
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By Paul Delbridge, Joseph Calandro |
February 9, 2012
Another year of costly natural catastrophes is causing many insurance industry stakeholders to wonder just how many more unexpected levels of loss they can tolerate.
