Insurance and Risk Management
Insurance & Risk Management Concentration Advisor
Dr. Gregory Nini, 312 SH-DH, greg30@wharton.upenn.edu, 215-898-7770
The insurance and risk management concentration examines the techniques useful to corporations, organizations and individuals in minimizing the potential financial losses arising from their exposure to risk. These techniques range from traditional insurance products to current advances in corporate and insurer risk management (e.g., risk financing and retention, non-insurance risk transfer, catastrophe derivatives). The concentration also encompasses such topics as risk and insurance regulation, global risk management, estate planning, and related public policy initiatives. Students graduating with this concentration have taken positions with investment banks, re-insurers, accounting firms, insurance brokerage firms, consulting firms, insurance companies and corporate risk management departments.
Prerequisite: INSR 205: Risk Management
Students must select four courses in the following list. At least three of these courses must be INSR courses.
INSR 210: Financial Strategies and Analysis: Insurance
INSR 221: Employee Benefit Plan Design and Financing
INSR 222: Business Insurance and Estate Planning
INSR 232: Risk Management and Treatment
INSR 251: Fundamentals of Actuarial Science I
INSR 811/812: Risk and Crisis Management / Markets for Pure Risks
HCMG 202: Economics and Financing of Health Care
FNCE 205: Investment Management
FNCE 206: Financial Derivatives
FNCE 219: International Markets
OPIM 220: Introduction to Operations Management
OPIM 261: Risk Analysis and Environmental Management
OPIM 290: Decision Processes
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