Etti G. Baranoff
Ph.D., FLMI, Associate Professor of Insurance, Risk Management and Finance, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia USA
Research and Publications: Risk and enterprise risk management maps and interrelationships of life insurers; risk financing; risk assessment; risk measurements and relations to capital; interrelations among capital/risk/organization/distribution structures; solvency detection models; regulations and impact, strategic risk identification/mitigation/implementation of solutions; industry segmentation; sophisticated statistical modeling; asset allocation dynamics – determinants and performance; market discipline - impact of rating on internal behavior of insurers and market response; Risk Management and Insurance Textbook by Wiley & Sons, Risk Assessment text book for the ARM designation and more. (See publications below). Completed the textbook with Pat Brockett and Yehuda Kahane “Risk Management for the Enterprise and Individuals” published in 2009 by Flatworld Knowledge.
Affiliation: A visiting scholar at the Business School of the University of Texas at Austin.
Special awards and participation: International Insurance Society five-time research award winner including the 2008 award. 2005 VCU Business School distinguished scholar. Participation in the Enterprise Risk Management Symposium by invitation only from the Griffith Foundation.
Additional work:
Insurance education: Educational consultant to the Academy of Insurance Education of the National Association of Insurance Brokers (NAIB) creating educational audiovisual materials for five courses for continuing education credits for agents and brokers on the following topics: General Liability, Workers Compensation, Reinsurance, Ethics, Alternative Risk Financing. Also revising chapters in educational books and rewiring own textbook.
Risk management: Profiling of risk financing alternatives for school districts via statistical modeling for the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB)
Market research for the Texas Association of school Boards for the workers’ compensation, health, property/casualty and unemployment compensation pools.
Insurance law and regulation: Consultant to Legal Research Network on regulatory issues.
Research and analysis – various complex issues in litigation.
Expert Witness [previous and current] – Various cases in life/health and property/casualty including group self insurance and HMOs. WC self insurance groups; Stranger Owned Life Insurance [STOLI]; Insurance contracts’ analysis and underwriting.
