A discussion of Risk and Risk Management from the perspective of an Insurance company risk manager. Insurers provide products that help everyone to manage their risks. Here you will hear Dave Ingram and Max Rudolph, actuaries from the global consultancy Actuarial Risk Management talk about the sorts of things that keep those insurance company risk managers up at night. Or at least they should.
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Signup to Generate a PitchA discussion of Risk and Risk Management from the perspective of an Insurance company risk manager. Insurers provide products that help everyone to manage their risks. Here you will hear Dave Ingram and Max Rudolph, actuaries from the global consultancy Actuarial Risk Management talk about the sorts of things that keep those insurance company risk managers up at night.
Recent episodes include "Four Risks that will Take Down a Company" (22 September 2026, 16 minutes), "Difficulty of Risk Management in the Best of Times" (8 September 2026, 20 minutes), and "The Emerging Risk Time Zone" (18 August 2026, 24 minutes).
Crossing Thin Ice publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 23 minutes across 91 episodes.
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Crossing Thin Ice is a business show with 91 episodes published.
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Episode #90
Leverage boosts your returns in a boom, but it acts as a threat multiplier the moment markets turn. Let's talk about how to de-risk before the margin call. Here is our 4-part formula that exposes your company's hidden...
Episode #89
Lots of things seem easy during a Boom. But risk management is not one of those. Dave and Max discuss those difficulties and provide some suggestions for how a CRO can navigate doing their job when risk seems to be...
Episode #88
Are You Ready for the Next Unknown Known? Relying on rules of thumb and past trends is a fast track to getting blindsided. From climate feedback loops to high-velocity risks, here is why traditional modeling fails in an...
Episode #87
Successful ERM implementations develop over time through iterative refinement, building organizational buy-in before layering on complex modeling structures. Here is Part 2 of "Implementing ERM". In part 1, we covered...
Episode #86
Regular ERM is one of the six Time Zones of ERM. This is part 1 of our discussion of regular ERM. We include discussion of Exploiting Risk by focusing on both upside and downside of risk. The three Levels of ERM. The...
Episode #85
History has a way of creeping back when we assume the battle is already won. In this our 85th episode, we confront an immediate, present-day vulnerability to TB that most professionals believe belongs safely in the...
Episode #84
I used to think a great ERM program just meant strict discipline. Now I know the best CROs have an ERM playbook with multiple sets of plays and sometimes they are calling audibles, changing the ERM play at the last...
Episode #83
Outliers are events we know are possible—we have the data, the science, or the historical precedent—but we actively ignore them because they haven't happened recently. They grow in the dark because a stable economy...
Episode #82
If you treat a "wicked problem" like a standard, predictable risk, failure is almost guaranteed. Listen up and we will explain, what is a Wicked Problem and how it is very different from most of the risks on your risk...
Episode #81
The risk of hyperinflation should not be ignored despite our lack of recent experience with it in the U.S. Hyperinflation is not just theoretical, our discussion looks at the core mechanics of inflation - most notably...
Episode #79
Survival in chaos doesn't come from optimization. It comes from diversification, buffers, and the speed to decide what to do next. Pragmatists have a completely different way of doing risk management that is designed...
Episode #80
Stability breeds instability. If your model assumes calm continuity, you might be blind to the pile of sand that's about to avalanche. Many actuaries and financial modelers rely on recent data and linear trending of...
Episode #78
We are making decisions with incomplete and conflicting information every day. Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity (VUCA) make it harder and harder to get those decisions right. Maybe we need to change our...
Episode #77
How do you make a confident decision when the information itself is unclear? Ambiguity is the core challenge of modern leadership. But the pursuit of perfect data to drive good decisions leads right into "analysis...
Episode #76
A jet engine is complicated. Your company is complex. The strategies for managing the risks of each are fundamentally—and dangerously—different. We call Complexity the "twist" in VUCA because it fundamentally changes...
Episode #75
Uncertainty is rising and AI is one of the most significant drivers. Not because there is something wrong with AI, but because it is so different and so powerful. We just do not know what changes are right around the...
Episode #74
We are entering a period of high risk coming from every direction that our current systems cannot hope to mitigate. This episode of Crossing Thin Ice looks ahead to 2026's major challenges. Hosts Dave and Max analyze...
Episode #73
Diversify food strategies, not just portfolios. Solutions like the Green Revolution and widespread monoculture farming boosted food supply but created long-term ecological and social vulnerabilities. We link population...
Episode #72
Replace "this won't happen" with "what if" and give your strategy a fighting chance. Volatility isn’t just a number — it’s the signal that tells you whether your strategy will survive shocks or be blindsided by them...
Episode #71
Execution isn’t speed or perfection. It’s reliable delivery under chaos. Use these six steps to get there. Great ideas can fail simply because execution breaks down? In episode 70 of Crossing Thin Ice, hosts Max Rudolph...
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