Message-ID: <27925309.1075856629931.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 05:11:00 -0700 (PDT) From: erisks_news@email.erisks.com To: vkamins@enron.com Subject: ERisk Essentials Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: ERisk X-To: vkamins@enron.com X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Vincent_Kaminski_Jun2001_5\Notes Folders\Sites X-Origin: Kaminski-V X-FileName: vkamins.nsf ? www.erisk.com What's New at ERisk.com - 06 April 2001 Weekly Review This week's economic, banking and P_insurance news, from an enterprise risk management perspective. Read it here ... Analysis ? How the New Economy aided and abetted the economic downturn ? State or federal regulation? Banks and insurers slug it out ? Credit risk concentration hits the interest-rate swaps market Feature Why do some ART products fare better than others? Credit insurance, for example, has taken off while the securitisation of catastrophe risk has struggled. In this feature, Sanford Bernstein analysts Todd Bault and Timothy Connor suggest that the secret of success lies in matching different kinds of risk to their appropriate owners - and that insurers' expertise in handling basis risk makes this a potentially lucrative market. Also still available: Penny Cagan on Basle's treatment of operational risk. iConference Looking for an overview of economic capital? Attend our iConference "Practical Considerations in Measuring Economic Capital" on April 11. Read more about it and register for the iConference. Still available: Slides and a summary of the Credit Derivatives iConference. Links Need to find educational material on the Web? Looking for a software vendor, a regulator or an exchange? Find hundreds of links to other risk management sites and resources in our Links section The ERisk Essentials is published every Friday by ERisk.com. To subscribe to this newsletter, please register on our website. To unsubscribe, access your account. Your username is the email address where you received this message. To be reminded of your password, or to reset it, follow this link.