From the monthly archives:

April 2010

RIMS in Pictures

by Jared Wade on April 28, 2010 · 0 comments

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. If that’s true, here are 10,000 words on Tuesday at RIMS 2010. RIMS President & Director Terry Fleming and RIMS Executive Director Mary Roth cut the RIMS 60th anniversary cake. Former RIMS President Joseph Restoule and RIMS Members Services Associate Shavonne Howlett pick the raffle winner [...]

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One of the coolest things about working from the press room at the RIMS Annual Conference is the ample amount of press releases available to journalists and other media professionals. Various companies in the risk and insurance industry are eager to spread the news of their new surveys, studies or products, and it shows — [...]

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The Sun Hates You

by Morgan O'Rourke on April 28, 2010 · 0 comments

You would never know it amid the cloudy, 40-degree weather here in Boston, but the sunny days of summer will be with us before you know it. The thing is that while many of us (particularly my fellow Northeasterners)  look forward to a little more sun in our lives, I’m not so sure the sun [...]

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Swan Sighting

by Bill Coffin on April 28, 2010 · 0 comments

This has been a pretty content-rich conference, but today is the day I have been waiting for. Today, Nicholas Nassim Taleb is the RIMS Leadership Luncheon keynote speaker. If you don’t know who Taleb is, you really ought to. He is a veteran trader, professor at New York University’s Polytechnic Institute and is best known [...]

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