Enterprise Risk Management: From Incentives to Controls (Wiley Finance)

This is basically new. At least i didnt find any marks on the book in the first quick glsnce. Its great But this does offer a lot less than second edition

Until recently, risk management was fairly simple. You bought insurance for your company or not. Perhaps because the world was a more stable place or because companies simply lacked the tools for quantitative analysis, executives often failed to analyze, understand and manage the spectrum of risks. Those innocent days ended with currency shifts, interest rate turbulence, the emergence of new competitors, the technological revolution and other disruptive events. In the early 1980s, companies began to take risk management seriously. Author James Lam has spent 20 years in risk management, which means he has been involved almost since its inception. He provides a lucid, well-written, well-edited exposition of the new approach to risk management - enterprise risk management or ERM. His book requires a certain basic understanding of mathematical and financial concepts, but it ought to be accessible to anyone with a few years of business education or experience. We believe that CFOs and risk managers will find it most useful.

You bought Jorion, Pearson, and Hull; you slammed headfirst into the quantitative quagmire of risk management, and you may even have passed the Financial Risk Manager exam, sponsored by the Global Association of Risk Professionals, but are you prepared to become your company's "Risk Champion?" Can you explain to laymen why loss distributions are not normal? Can you illustrate the "sweet spot" in the profit/risk tradeoff? If you aren't quite there yet, pick up James Lam's new book, Enterprise Risk Management, From Incentives to Controls. It's a book you can read on the five hour flight from New York to Los Angeles, and its melodies will linger in your memory. This book has changed the way I communicate with people both in and outside the risk management profession. Read it with a highlighter in your hand, and keep the book within easy reach.

This book by James Lam provides an excellent insight into this current business strategic problem. In view of all the corporate governance coming from Sarbannes-Oxley legislation and Basel II capital pronouncements, this book provides the user with the building blocks in terms of explaining how credit, market, and operational risk all tie into the big picture of enterprise risk. The author enables one to understand these risks without getting bogged down in mathematical details. He effectively brings these risks together in terms of portfolio management and then presents the reader with some risk mitigation techniques. He goes beyond other books which just concentrate on financial institutions by bringing in energy firms and nonfinancial corporations in his concluding chapters. Lam's book is a must read for anyone considering a career in risk management. Gerald G. Wisz, Ph.D. Adjunct Associate Professor of Finance Polytechnic University, Brooklyn NY Independent Risk Management Consultant

The book has a very basic and elementary level. Probably this is due to the great array of topics it includes. It is a very high level overview of risk management concepts. Good reading for the weekend.