Professional Risk Managers' International Association
(PRMIA) was recently formed to meet the needs of the risk management
profession for a nonprofit global association of risk professionals.
It is developing the industry's most advanced risk management
certification program.
International Association of Financial Engineers
.
The International Association of Financial Engineers (IAFE) is a
professional society dedicated to defining and fostering the
profession of financial engineering. Its primary mission is
to help establish and promote industry standards and practices
relating to financial engineering theory and practice.
Society for Risk Analysis.
The Society aims at bringing together individuals from diverse
disciplines and from different countries to provide them opportunities
to exchange information, ideas and methodologies for risk analysis
and risk problem - solving. The site is devoted to description of
Society's activities, events announcement, Risk Analysis journal
and other related topics.
Strategic Asset Allience.
The insurance investment specialists site, devoted to
assistance in improving the company's financial results.
Includes the discussion group and a wide range of news
from the industry.
International Finance and Commodities Institute
is a good start point for those who begins to study risk theory with the
purpose of its application in the real world. It contains introduction to
risk and key concepts of the theory, presents a number of examples and huge
glossary. Beginners should visit this site on a regular basis.
Global Association or Risk Professionals
is intended for professionals and contains a wide range of information on events
and publications, proposes chats and discussion forums.
SOA (Society of actuaries).
The Society of Actuaries is a nonprofit educational, research
and professional society of 17,000 members involved in the modeling
and management of financial risk and contingent events.
CAS (Casualty actuarial society).
The purposes of the Casualty Actuarial Society are to advance
the body of knowledge of actuarial science applied to property,
casualty and similar risk exposures, to establish and maintain
standards of qualification for membership, to promote and maintain
high standards of conduct and competence for the members,
and to increase the awareness of actuarial science.
Lumina decision systems, Inc.
develops, markets, and supports
Analytica,
the leading software package for creating, analyzing and communicating
quantitative business models.
Palisade corporation.
Produces software for risk and decision analysis: Excel add-in @Risk and
the like.
Decisioneering.
Provider of risk analysis software: Crystal Ball (Excel add-in) and
related tools.
Vanguard
software corporation. Provides standalone Monte Carlo simulation software.
Seems to significantly exceed Cristal Ball and @Risk in calculations speed.