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Do risk managers manage risk?

Norman Marks

He wrote: As clear as mud: Do risk managers or decision-makers manage risk? Let’s consider the ISO 31000:2018 diagram of a risk management process. Stefan Hunziker recently wrote an excellent piece on LinkedIn. I congratulated him for his post, but I want to go into his question in more detail here.

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Improving risk management standards and guidance

Norman Marks

to share my views on how the global risk management standard, ISO 31000:2018, should be improved. It’s a standard that I prefer to COSO’s 2017 Enterprise Risk Management Framework (although I prefer the principles in the ISO 31000:2009[1] version[2]). I was pleased to receive a request from Peter Blokland, PhD.

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Hockey, Leverage And More Leverage

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

First up, Phillip Toews who runs an asset management shop and who wrote a book about about behavioral portfolio construction wrote about understanding market history and a section on how to build robust portfolio that reads like he could have outsourced that part of the article to me. It covers a lot of the same ground that we cover here.

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Thinking about risk appetite and risk appetite statements

Norman Marks

I have written a lot over the years about risk appetite and the value of risk appetite statements, both here on this blog and also in my books, especially World-Class Risk Management (2015) and Risk Management in Plain English: A Guide for Executives, Enabling Success through Intelligent and Informed Risk-Taking (2018).

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Why Portfolio Diversification is for the Ignorant Investor

Risk Management Guru

The Risk Management Guru (RMG) blog was founded in October 2015 with a very clear sense of purpose: to become the go-to blog for the best articles about Risk Management. Without you, this adventure would not be possible nor would the Risk Management Blog have its unique personality. our gurus). our gurus).

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How Worrisome is High Stock Market Concentration?

Discipline Funds

As Dartmouth showed back in 2018 , a publicly listed firm had a 92% chance of being around 5 years from now versus just 63% as of 2018. But if you’ve got a short time horizon then this sort of environment warrants some risk management. Companies are dying and growing much faster than they ever have.

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Top Small Cap Stocks in India – Stocks To Watch in 2023

Trade Brains

Fiscal Year Sales Net Profit 2022 1094 181 2021 773 162 2020 698 72 2019 590 14 2018 444 -13 (figures in Rs Cr) Like other IT companies, it also has high return ratios with RoCE 31.2% Cholamandalam MS Risk Services Ltd. This comes as revenues and net profits of Happiest Minds have grown rapidly in the last five financial years.

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