Oliver Wyman Institute Risk Roundtable Series

The FIC sponsors an annual Risk Roundtable series that focuses each year on emerging issues in risk measurement and management. Co-sponsored with the Oliver Wyman Institute, this series brings together leading academics and practitioners who specialize in risk management.

Each year the conference focuses on the risks associated with current market developments and industry trends and looks at innovative financial engineering techniques to manage emerging risks. Various topics have been addressed, including crisis management, market contagion, risk-adjusted performance measurement, global financial risk, and the risks associated with industry consolidation and convergence.

Topics such as the following have been explored:

  • The legal implications of measuring and managing global financial risk
  • Modeling the probabilities of a "Crash"
  • Use of scaling to convert from short- to long-horizon volatility
  • Risk transfer mechanisms
  • Containing market contagion and crisis management
  • Issues in liquidity risk and its management
  • Measuring and managing market risk
  • Mechanisms for adequate risk-adjusted performance management
  • The risks, returns and regulatory implications of consolidation and conglomeration in the financial services sector
  • Risk management practices and tools across industries

Proceedings from past roundtables may be found below: