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Welcome to The Journal of Risk website. The Journal has now enjoyed 11 successful years as a leader in the market and continues to build upon this solid foundation.
Since the recent expansion of the Journals program The Journal of Risk has become more focused on market-based topics. The Journal publishes high quality theoretical and empirical studies in financial risk management. Its distinctive focus is original, rigorous research with practical applications in mind.
In continuing to act as a market leader, Risk Journals is pleased to announce that in 2010 The Journal of Risk will present a special issue on ’Risk Sharing in Defined Contribution Pension Schemes’. The University of Exeter Business School and Netspar, in partnership with the Department for Work and Pensions, are jointly sponsoring a research conference on this topic, at the University of Exeter on Thursday 7 and Friday 8 January 2010. Paul Cox of Exeter University will be acting as Guest Editor for the special issue that will follow the conference.
The research conference will focus on the risks faced by members of DC schemes and examine alternative structures that might mitigate these risks. This especially includes contributions that can work within existing legislation, but also contributions that would mean a change in legislation. Topics suitable for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
- The risks inherent in DC schemes.
- Methods to share risk, including inter- and intra-generational risk-sharing and other ways to reduce the potential dispersion of retirement outcomes for members.
- Theory and evidence of risk sharing in which there is no scheme liability and of risk sharing in which there is a scheme liability.
- Managing liabilities as a result of risk sharing.
- Analysis of scheme characteristics required for successful risk sharing.
- Behavioural aspects of risk sharing (e.g. impact on opt-in, opt-out, fund switching and unforced contribution breaks).
- Theory and evidence of regulations and legislation needed to invoke forms of risk sharing.
The deadline for submissions is 16 October, 2009. Authors will be notified by 16 November, 2009. Please contact Paul Cox about the conference and the subsequent special issue at P.R.Cox@exeter.ac.uk. For further information click here. |
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Letter from the Editor-In-Chief
This issue marks my first as Editor-in-Chief. For their support, I am very grateful to
Nick Carver, the Publisher, Lucie Carter, the Journals Manager, and Stan Uryasev,
the departing Editor-in-Chief, who now becomes Editor Emeritus and Chairman of
the Board. I appreciate Stan wanting to remain involved with the journal and look
forward to the special issue on “Risk management and the interface of behavioural
and quantitative finance” that he is working on for next year. Thanks to Stan, I have
been very fortunate to be closely involved with the editorial process during his tenure
over the past three years.
Since its inception more than a decade ago, The Journal of Risk has received a
steady flow of high-quality submissions. These have addressed various aspects of
risk, both empirically and theoretically, with a view toward immediate applications.
As the financial developments of late have clearly shown, there still exists a strong
need for quantitative models of financial risk assessment and management. My
objective is to maintain the leadership role of The Journal of Risk regarding these
topics. I will thus endeavor to maintain the high quality of the journal while striving
to improve the review turnaround. |
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