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Moderated by Towers Perrin's Frank Schepers, European risk experts and insurance practitioners discuss the challenges and benefits of preparing for Solvency II compliance and the current state of readiness.

This Towers Perrin/Economist Intelligence Unit collaborative Risk/Opportunity Study provides insights into senior executives’ confidence in their ability to manage risks and exploit opportunities.

Just as the economy began to sour in the third quarter of last year, senior executives were highly confident -- in retrospect, perhaps overconfident -- about their ability to manage risk and opportunity, according to a Towers Perrin study.

A clear articulation of preferences for risk taking is an essential foundation for a sound system of risk control and provides a framework for strategic decision making.

European representatives of insurance and financial services companies -- SCOR Group, Fortis, S&P and ADAG/Allianz -- discussed with Towers Perrin the value of ERM, their organizations' ERM implementation progress and global implications.

Stephen Maloney, Towers Perrin Managing Consultant, describes the credit issues and challenges that companies will face in 2008.

Insurers are increasingly adopting mark-to-market accounting over a one-year time horizon to calculate economic capital (EC). When combined with a stress-testing approach to risk quantification, it’s a methodology that yields quick insights into risk exposure.

While companies have invested in tools to measure economic capital and organizational structures to manage enterprise risks, the full benefits won’t come until the new approaches to risk management are embedded in the business.