Risk management is of vital importance in Islam and Takāful provides a way to manage risks in business according to Sharī’ah principles. This research paper attempts to identify various types of risks involved in Takāful business that affect operational and investment functions of Takāful...

Regulators are currently developing group-wide capital standards that are intended to enable the effective monitoring of insurance groups. Some jurisdictions are taking steps toward models with a focus on the groups’ consolidated balance sheets, while other models focus on the interrelations...

We test the hypothesis that practicing enterprise risk management (ERM) reduces firms’ cost of reducing risk. Adoption of ERM represents a radical paradigm shift from the traditional method of managing risks individually to managing risks collectively allowing ERM-adopting firms to better...

As a core activity and discipline of corporate management and corporate governance, risk management is, especially nowadays, a central part in pursuing the sustainable development desiderates, both from the perspective of the firm and of the society as a whole.Considering the negative impact...

Financial crisis has shown significant gaps in risk management system in financial institutions. The major critics focused on an inappropriate usage of the innovative financial products with not adequate reflection of capital requirements for their market risks, not adequate valuations of those...

This paper aims to analyze the reasons why insurance companies make the decision to hedge their corporate risk through derivatives, and to identify the variables that determine hedging volume in the context of the agency theory and maximization of firm value. The empirical study is based on data...

This paper aims to analyze the reasons why insurance companies make the decision to hedge their corporate risk through derivatives, and to identify the variables that determine hedging volume in the context of the agency theory and maximization of firm value. The empirical study is based on data...

The development of the concept of risk management has a relatively recent history, progressing rapidly in recent decades. In the past, most banking institutions did not consider risk management to have an active role in daily operations. Risk monitoring should encourage banking institutions to...

The recent international credit crisis has highlighted the significant exposure that banks and insurers, especially mono-line credit insurers, have to residential house price risk. This paper provides an assessment of risk models for residential property for applications in banking and insurance...

Considering that risk management can improve the competitiveness of agricultural enterprises, since 2009 the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has introduced measures to support certain risk management tools, including agricultural insurance. The recent CAP reform proposals suggest shifting them...